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exceeded thirty; yet in April, 1851, according to 

 Mr. E.P. Shirley, there were forty-eight, and in 1873 

 there were twenty-seven. In July, 1874, Mr. Storer 

 found only twenty-five — namely, ten breeding cows, 

 four bulls (two adult), six steers, and five heifers, of 

 various ages ; the finest old bull and one of the 

 cows, besides some calves, having died since the 

 previous autumn. In June, 1877, when Mr. A. H. 

 Cocks visited this park, as described by him in The 



WILD BULL OP CHARTLEY. 



Zoologist (1878, p. 276), the herd, consisting of 

 twenty animals, was thus constituted : One nine- 

 year-old bull, one five-year-old bull, one bullock, five 

 or six young bulls of different ages, two young bull 

 calves (one called two months old, the other two or 

 three weeks), the remaining nine or ten being cows 

 and heifers of various ages: 



In appearance the Chartley cattle — independently 



