114 WHITE FOREST BREED. 



stroyed, the noble proprietor considering the white 

 color to be essential to their purity.''^ Mr. Cole, the 

 park-keeper for more than forty years, says they 

 have no mane, but curly hair on their neck and head ; 

 more so in winter, when the hair is long.^^ Cully 

 says their color is invariably of a creamy white ; 

 muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear 

 and about one third of the outside, from the tip 

 downwards, red ; horns white, with black tips, veiy 

 fine, and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a 

 thin, upright mane, about an inch and a half or two 

 inches long.^^ 



The Hamilton Park cattle are often referred to as 

 the cattle of the Chase of Cadzow, after the castle of 

 that name, the former seat of the dukes of Hamilton. 

 Cadzow Castle occupies a site on the banks of the 

 Avon in Lanarkshire, at one extremitj^ of the ancient 

 Caledonian Wood. Alton, in 1814, descrii)cs these 

 cattle as uniformly of a cteamy white color, their 

 muzzles and the greater part of their ears black or 

 brown, and some with a few black spots on their 

 sides. A few are without horns, but the greater 

 number have handsome white ones, with black tips 

 bent like a new moon. Some of the bulls have a sort 

 of mane, four or five inches long. The cattle at Ham- 

 ilton and Ardrossan are not so fierce and savage as 

 their ancestors, but at Auchencruive they still retain 

 much of their natural ferocity. Their backs are high 

 and not so straight as could be wished ; their chest 



" Jour, of Ag. ix, 372, 376. »» Vasey on the Ox Tribe, p. 149. 



M Vasey, op. cit. p. 143. 



