98 NOTES ON SOME EARLY POLLED CATTLE. 



These very unfortunate inaccuracies have thus been 

 corrected since the appearance of vol. iv. of the ' Herd 

 Book/ but the facts are made still more clear by the pub- 

 lication of Mr FuUerton's and Dr Simpson's interesting 

 correspondence with Mr Jamiesou. 



The Keillor JocTcs. 



Mr Hugh Watson's herd at Keillor was one of those 

 that, in the period that elapsed between the inception and 

 the actual publication of the first volume of the ' Herd 

 Book,' had been scourged by pleuro-pneumonia, and had 

 been finally dispersed. To the causes we have indicated 

 as explanatory of the confusion that occurred in many of 

 the entries in vol. i. has to be added, in the case of the 

 Keillor herd, a defective system of nomenclature, most of Mr 

 Watson's animals having been called by the same names. 

 There was a series of Jocks, distinguished merely by the 

 prefixes "Tarnty," "Black," "Old," " Grey - breasted," 

 " Young," " Second," &c. Then the females went under 

 the common names of " Grannies," " Favourites," or " Beau- 

 ties." It sometimes happened, too, that these names were 

 applied indiscriminately to different animals, and it would 

 also seem that some at least of the Keillor entries were 

 made from recollection without the aid of documents. 

 Eeference to such easily accessible authorities as show and 

 sale catalogues would have prevented several inaccuracies 

 that have occurred. 



The chief errors in the Keillor pedigrees are those that 

 have crept into the entries of the bulls Old Jock 1 and 

 Grey-breasted Jock 2. The pedigree of Old Jock 1, as 

 given in vol. i., is very meagre. It simply states that he 

 was bred by Hugh Watson, Keillor, and was the sire of 

 certain animals. A footnote mentions that he was " de- 

 scended by sire and dam from the old stock of Keillor 

 doddies, a herd which obtained celebrity so far back as 



