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CHAPTER XVII. 



THE LEADING FAMILIES. 



The Queen tribe — the Prides of Aberdeen — the Ericas — Princesses — Baron- 

 esses — Emilys — Favourites — Miss Watsons — Jilts — Ruths — Kinnaird 

 Fanuys — Drumin and Mains of Kelly Lucys — Baads Sybils and 

 Kates — Other Ballindalloch families — Portlethen families — Montblet- 

 ton families — Mains of Kelly families — Easter Skene families — Drumin 

 families — Castle Fraser families — Kothiemay families — "Westertown 

 families — Easter TuUoch famUies — Mulben famOies — Advie Boses — 

 the Zara family — the Fyvie Flowers. 



In the chapters on the various extinct and existing 

 herds, and in other parts of the work, the breeding and 

 career of the leading families have already been pretty 

 fully set forth. To facilitate reference, however, it may 

 be well to present here a few notes regarding those strains 

 that have attained the highest celebrity. 



The Queen Tribe. 



In the Queen tribe there is a monument to Mr 

 M'Combie's skill and success as a breeder. We have in 

 it the result of the combined efforts in cattle-breeding of 

 Mr Fullerton and Mr M'Combie, but chiefly of the latter, 

 as the material was manipulated by him during a period 

 of no less than thirty-seven years. In examining the 

 career of the Queen tribe, the first point that excites 

 notice is the illustration which it affords of Mr M'Combie's 

 remarkable faculty of instantly and with unerring accu- 



