CHAPTEK XIII. 



THE ALDERNEY JERSEY GUERNSEY OB CHANNEL 



ISLAND CATTLE. 



"We regret that Youatt — so elaborate with some other breeds — 

 has devoted less than two pages of text to this singular, unique, 

 and truly valuable race. And from other English authorities 

 we obtain but sketches in various unconnected accounts. Youatt 

 calls them — to England — a " foreign breed." They are so, 

 being originally from Normandy, a Province in the north-western 

 part of France, but they were long ago transplanted, and became 

 the peculiar race belonging to the "British Channel Islands" of 

 Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, lying off the coast of Nor- 

 mandy. 



We glean some partial descriptions of them from foreign pub- 

 lications; but as we have them here, probably in as high quahties 

 of breeding and excellence as in their native Islands, we describe 

 them as we have seen. Beginning with the head — the most 

 characteristic feature — the muzzle is fine, the nose either dark 

 brown or black, and occasionally a yellowish shade, with a 

 pecuhar mealy, light-colored hair, running up the face into a 

 smoky hue, when it graduUy takes the general color of the 

 body; the face is slightly dishing, clean of flesh, mild and 

 gentle in expression ; the eye clear and full, and encircled with a 

 distinct ring of the color of the nose; the forehead bold; the 

 horn short, curving inward, and waxy in color, with black tips; 



