THE LYME PARK HERD OF WILD WHITE CATTLE. 



87 



one horn being deflected, and the other raised ; a cow's head 

 with horns similarly curved is preserved at Chartley Hall. 



The head at the Hall is but indifferently preserved, and 

 has been over-stuffed. Mr. Cocks informs me that in 1877 it 

 appeared to have been stuffed several years ; the horns are of the 

 long-horn type, showing the animal had Gisburne blood, and can 

 hardly have been killed before 1803. (The Gisburne cow and 

 calf came to Lyme in 1859.) The hair is rather curly on the 

 poll, the muzzle black, and the ears white, inside and out. 

 Mrs. Legh told me that the head at Hall Barns belonged to an 

 animal (from the length of horn and comparative fineness of 

 face, I think, a bullock), which was shot at Christinas, about 

 forty-three years ago. The hair on the poll is curly, the ears 

 chocolate-red inside, and for about a third of their length from 

 the apex outside. One or two of the e} T elashes, which time and 

 ungentle usage have left, are red, and there are a few red hairs 

 above the black muzzle, but they are scarcely comparable with 

 the well-pronounced red line above the muzzle in the Chillingham 

 breed. The horns, which are yellow tipped with black, decline 

 outwards and forwards, and then slightly inwards. This head 

 and the old skull are undoubtedly our best existing guides to the 

 original character of the ancient Wild White Cattle of L\ me. 



Measurements (in inches) of Stuffed Heads. 





PI 



c3 













d 



o 



.s 



CO 



c3 cg 



nd 



"o 





* <D 



a 2 



d 



o> d 



c3 



<D CD 





a > 



- « 



O rd 



o 



QJ o 



Jd 



CJ CO 



d «8 





o s 



rd -fc3 



J3 



£^ 



■H 



CD J3 





X o 



c_ A 



CM 



«2 a 



o 



*^ 





cm W 



o £0 



o 



CO <*> 



,d 



<h c3 





o cd 



-(-3 



+= o 



to 

 d 



d 

 cd 



d 



03 



2 * 

 M -m 



<1^ 



a 



CD 



Hi 



a a 



CD O 





3 



h3 











Head at Lyme . . 



25 



13 



9-5 



10 



21 



— 



,, Hale Barns 



27 



18-5 



29-5 



11 



22-5 



9-5 



The measurements of the head at Lyme are those given by 

 Mr. Cocks (Zool. 1878, p. 284), who says the head is that of a 

 bull. Mr. Pardey, however, informs me it is a cow's. 



