418 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



they gallop wildly in a circle round him, and stop to gaze, 

 tossing their heads, and shewing signs of defiance : they 

 then set off, and gallop a second time round, but in 

 a contracted circle, repeating this circular mode of ap- 

 proaching till they are so near that it becomes prudent 

 to retire from their intended charge. The cows conceal 

 their young calves for eight or ten days, going to suckle 

 them twice or three times in a day : if a person comes near 

 the calf, it conceals itself by crouching. One not more 

 than two days old, being discovered by Dr. Fuller*, was 

 very lean and weak. On his stroking its head, it got 

 up, pawed the ground, bellowed very loud, went back a 

 few steps, and bolted at his legs : it then began to paw 

 again, and made another bolt, but missing its aim, fell, and 

 was so weak as not to be able to rise ; but by this time its 

 bellowing had roused the herd, which came instantly to its 

 relief, and made the doctor retire. When one of this breed 

 happens to be wounded, or is enfeebled by age or sickness, 

 the others set upon it and gore it to death. 



These animals were killed, to within a few years, by a 

 grand assemblage of horsemen and country people armed 

 with muskets: the former rode one from the herd, and the 

 latter took their stations on walls or in trees. There was 

 grandeur in the chase, but from the number of accidents 

 which occurred it was laid aside. We believe that at 

 present none remain, excepting at Chillingham Castle, the 

 property of the Earl of Tankerville, near Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed ; at Wollaton, in Nottingham ; at Gisburne, in 

 Craven ; at Limehall, in Chessire, and at Chartly, in Staf- 

 fordshire. 



The Domestic Ox. (B. Taurus.) It maybe conjectured 



* This anecdote is elsewhere ascribed to Mr. Bailey of Chilling- 

 ham. We understand that there is a large breed, not perfectly 

 white, in the Duke of Hamilton's park in Scotland, 



