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ears. They have been in the park from time immemorial, and 

 tradition says they are indigenous. In the summer season they 

 assemble on the high lands, and in winter seek shelter in the 

 park woods. They were formerly fed with holly branches, with 

 which trees the park abounded ; but these being destroyed, hay 

 now is substituted. Two of the cows are shot annually for beef." 



In 1859 a cow and a bull-calf, the last of the remaining animals 

 of the Gisburne hornless herd, were brought to Lyme, but this 

 cross was unsuccessful for several reasons ; and the introduction 

 of new blood, in the place of a bull from Chartley, about the year 

 1871, and subsequently a heifer-calf from Vaynol,* came too late 

 to save the herd, already reduced to very narrow limits from utter 

 extinction. The bull sent in exchange to Chartley was considered 

 unsuitable as a cross, and was slaughtered. The head, I believe, is 

 now preserved at Chartley Hall. 



When the Rev. John Storer was at Lyme, in August, J 875, 

 there were four animals besides the Chartley bull, and at the 

 time of Mr. A. H. Cocks's visit, in June, 1877, t these were still 

 alive, and two heifer-calves had been born, which with the Vaynol 

 heifer made a total of eight head, viz. : — 



(1). An old bull said to be dying of old age, and to be eleven 

 or twelve years old, though referred to by Mr. Storer, in 1875, 

 as three years old. 



(2). A bull, brought from Chartley as a yearling. 



(3). A cow, aged about ten. 



(4). A black cow, out of the old cow, by the Chartley bull, 

 rising or turned five probably. 



(5). A heifer, about two years old, by the old bull out of the 

 old cow. 



(6). A heifer, about eighteen months old, out of the black 

 cow by the old bull. 



(7). A heifer calf, by the Chartley bull, out of a domestic cow. 



(8). A heifer calf from Vaynol. t 



In August, 1884, Mr. T. A. Coward found only three animals 

 surviving : — the black cow (4) ; the cow (5) ; and a young bull, 

 out of the black cow by the Chartley bull. 



* Storer, ' Wild White Cattle,' p. '290. 



I A. II. (Ocks, 'Zoologist,' 1878, p. 278. 



| For this list, sec Report of Brit. Assoc. 1887, p. 139. 





