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mentioned this herd as one of the five " only breeds 

 now remaining in the kingdom." They were all 

 white, with black noses and black ears, and had a 

 fine circlet of black round the eyes. They were 

 polled, or hornless, and were known as the " old park 

 breed," a name denoting some antiquity. Their origin 

 can now only be surmised.* They became extinct in 

 the time of Henry, sixth Lord Middleton — that is, 

 between 1800 and 1835 — when, fourteen of them 

 having died at one time from eating dead branches 

 cut from trees near the hall, and the herd having 

 thus become so reduced by the accident, and the 

 survivors showing no tendency to breed, they were 

 ordered to be sold and slaughtered. 



Of all these herds, there are now existing only 

 those at Cadzow (Hamilton), Chartley, ChiUingham, 

 Kilmory, Lyme, and Somerford. 



In Ireland no trace of these wild cattle has yet 

 been discovered, although remains of the smaller 

 Bos longifrons have been procured from many Irish 

 localities, t 



* Storer, pp. 274, 275. 



t See Ball, "Proc. Eoy. Irish Acad.," vol. ii. p. 541 ; Wilde, op. oit„ 

 vii. p. 183. Adams, op. cit. (second series), vol. iii. p. 90; Scouler, 

 " Jouru. Greol. Soc," Dublin, vol. i. p. 228 ; Owen, "British Fossil Mam 

 mals," p. 508; and Thompson, "Nat. Hist. Ireland," vol. iv. p. 35. 



