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with a thick mane resembling a lion's, and wild and 

 savage. He says that it had formerly abounded in 

 the Sylva Caledonia, but was then only to be found 

 at Stirling, Cumbernauld, and Kincardine." Sand- 

 ford, in his manuscript history of Cumberland, dated 

 1675, says around Naworth formerly were "pleasant 

 woods and gardens ; scround full of fallow dear tied- 

 ing on all somer-tyme ; bra we venison pasties, and 

 great store of reid dear on the mountains ; and white 

 wild cattle, with black ears, only on the moores."^* 

 "We find them referred to by Bewick in 1770, and in 

 1781 Pennant speaks of them as retaining their white 

 color, but as having lost their manes. *^ Conrad 

 Gesner describes them as " white oxen, maned iil)out 

 the neck like a lion. . . . This beast is so 

 hateful and fearful of mankind, that it will not feed ot 

 that grasse or those hearbes whereof he savoureth a 

 man hath touched — no, not for many days together; 

 and if, b}' art or policy, they happen to be taken 

 alive, they will die with very sudden grief. If they 

 meet a man, presently they make force at him, fear- 

 ing neither dogs, spears, nor other weapons."^' 



About 1800 they are spoken of as invariably white, 

 with the ears internally and externally about one third 

 down, red ; horns white, tipped with black, and the 

 muzzles black. ^® In 1836 we begin to get more par- 

 ticular descriptions. Color invariably white, muzzle 



1* Leslie. De Origine MoribuB et Rebna G-estis Scotorum, Rome, 1598, ed. of 

 167.1, 18, quoted in Ad. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1839, ii, 282. Also in Low's Ani- 

 mals, 2:U. 



'= Jour. K. A. S. 1852, liu, 219. 



'« Quadrupeds, 16. 



1^ Ibth Century ; quoted from Scherer's Rural Life, p. 627. 



18 Complete Grazier, p. i. 



