WHITE FOREST BREED. 115 



is deep but narrow ; and they have much the appear- 

 ance of the ill-fed native breed of the cattle of Ayr- 

 shire, Lanarkshire, etc., about fifty j^ears ago." In 

 1845 Low describes them as with the females gen- 

 erally polled,^^ and in 1870 the bulls are credited 

 Avith black-tipped horns. ^^ Their color is given as 

 dun white,^" or dingy white,^^ their muzzles and hoofs 

 bhick,^^ as also the inside of the ears,"^ and the 

 tongue. ^^ Li the " Naturalists' Library " we find it 

 stated that their bodies are thick and short, their 

 limbs stouter than the Chillingham breed, and their 

 heads much rounder, the inside of their mouths 

 either black or spotted with black, and the fore part 

 of their legs, from the knee downward, mottled with 

 black."* At one time but thirteen remained alive, 

 the survivors of the cattle-plague of the few years 

 previous. The bulls looked as if they might fatten 

 to eight hundred or eight hundred and fifty pounds. 

 They had light hind-quarters, but were heavy and 

 deep in front; all had black muzzles, black ears, and 

 the older beasts black tips to their horns. "^ We 

 were told that some years ago the herd numbered 

 eighty or ninety, but all fell victims to the cattle- 

 plague except thirteen, of which eleven altogether 

 escaped and two recovered. When the plague at- 

 tacked them, they were driven individually between 



^^ Sinclair's Scotland, iii. 44. 



** L)w'3 \niinal9. 2:16. 



ra (iard. Chron and Ag. Gaz., Aug. 6, 1870. 



60 Ijow. Nat l.ih., op. cit. 



=1 Dicljinson, Jour R. A. S., of Eng., 1832, 249. 



'^ Low, Nat Lib., op. cU. 



^ Low's Animals. 235. 



" Nat. Lib., Jardine, iv, 202, note. 



^ Ghird. Chron. and Ag. Gaz., Aug. 6, 1870. 



