118 ^VHITE FOEEST BREED. 



down to the present day, and they retain their wild 

 characteristics like those at Chillinghara. They are 

 cream colored, with black muzzles and ears ; their 

 fine, sharp horns are also tipped with black. They 

 are not easily appro.ached, but are harmless unless 

 molested.™ Low adds that they frequently tend to 

 become entirely black, and that they are of a larger 

 size than those at Chill ingham.^" 



Wild cattle, says Low, have been or ai"e yet pre- 

 served at "Wollaton in Nottinghamshire and at Lime- 

 hall in Cheshire, England,^' and Bewick states that 

 the ears and nose of all of them are black. ^^ 



These cattle, in the possession of ancestral fam- 

 ilies, and maintained and protected in parks, un- 

 doubtedly as a family pride, have with difficulty been 

 preserved through the epidemics and casualties of a 

 few centuries. Yet, despite the human care and the 

 rigorous weeding out of blemishes, we can see they 

 ■were unable to retain in their color or form much 

 more than a resemblance. In the Chillingham cat- 

 tle the muzzle is described as black or brown, the 

 ears inwardly, and in part externally, red, reddish- 

 brown, and red or brown ; their manes either short, 

 or rudimentary, or not existing. We find black ears 

 and blemishes occurring at difl!"erent times. In the 

 Hamilton herd we find them generally with horns at 

 an early date, but afterwards the females usually 

 polled. Black spots on sides and legs are noticed. 

 They are described as possessing manes of from four 



'0 Vasey on ihc Ox Tribe, p. 140. " Low's Animals, p. 238. 



«» Low's Animals, US. « Bewick's Quaarupcds, 8th edit. 39, note. 



