WILD WHITE CATTLE. 



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took place about that time (temp. Hen. Ill), and 

 that the cattle were then driven in, just as they were 

 •at Hamilton, Drumlanrig, and Naworth, all of which 

 herds, together with that at Chillingham, were pro- 

 bably detachments from the main body of wild 



WILD BULL OF CHILLIXGIIAM.* 



-cattle which formerly roamed the Caledonian Wood. 

 Mr. Storer says : 



" Whatever may be the age of the park, that, I 

 imagine, indicates also the time when the wild cattle 

 were first confined within its boundaries, for no 

 record of their introduction exists. I suppose that 

 they, previously wild denizens of the surrounding 



* For these two illustrations from Mr. Storer's work we are indebted 

 'to the courtesy of Messrs. Cassell, Petter and Galpin . The horns of the 

 Lyme Park herd are of an intermediate character between these two. 



