THE WILD CATTLE OF SCOTLAND. 137 
Cumarnauld.”* Ina remarkable document, written about 1570, the 
writer complains of the aggressions of the King’s party in the de- 
‘struction of the deer’in the forest of Cumbernauld, ‘‘ and the quhit 
ky and bullis of the said forest, to the gryt destructione of policie 
and hinder of the commonweill. For that kynd of ky and bullis he 
bein kepit thir money zeiris in the said forest, and the like was 
not mantenit in ony vther partis of the Ile of Albion.” In 1598, 
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, speaks of the wild ox occurring in 
the woods of Scotland, of a white color, with a thick mane, resem- 
bling a lion’s, and wild and savage. He says that it had formerly 
- abounded in the Sylva Caledonia, but was then only to be found at 
Stirling, Cumbernauld, and Kincardine.{ Sandford, in his man- 
uscript history of Cumberland, dated 1675, says around Naworth 
formerly were ‘ pleasant woods and gardens; ground full of fal- 
low dear, fieding on all somer-tyme; brawe venison pasties, and 
great store of reid dear on the mountains; and white wild cattle, 
with black ears, only on the moores.”§ We find them referred to 
by Bewick in 1770, and in 1781 Pennant speaks of them as retain- 
ing their white color, but as having lost their manes. || . Conrad 
Gesner describes them as “white oxen, maned about the neck 
like a lion: =.. +: This beast is so hateful and fearful of mankind, 
that it will not feed of that grasse or those hearbes whereof he 
sayoureth a man hath touched —no, not for many days together ; 
and if, by art or policy, they happen to be taken alive, they will 
die with very sudden grief. If they meet a man „presently they 
make force at him, fearing neither dogs, spears, nor other weap- 
ons.” (16th century ; quoted from Scherer’s Rural Life, p. 627.) 
“ Here (Cadzow Castle), so late as the year 1760, were a few 
-of those white cattle with black or brown earsand muzzles, once 
so common in Scotland. Their shyness and ferocity of temper 
z rendered them troublesome and of little use, they were therefore 
exterminated in the year above mentioned.” (The History of 
the City of Glasgow, eté., By: ees Denholm. er 1798, 
Pp. 252.) 
- #tector Bosce, born in 1470. Hist. Sehtoram, pub. at Par 1826, ed. of 157, Tol. 6, 
yr agp tg arse ited in An. & Mag. "o mn , 281, and Low’s 
; Animals, 234. 
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