138 , — THE WILD CATTLE OF SCOTLAND. 
About 1800 they are spoken of as invariably white, with the ears — 
internally, and externally about one-third down, red ; horns white, 
tipped with black, and the muzzles black.* In 1836, we begin to 
get more particular descriptions. Color invariably white, muzzle 
black, the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the 
outside, from the tip downward, red. The horns are very fine, white 
with black tips; and the head and legs are slender and elegant. 
The Earl of Tankerville, the proprietor of Chillingham park, de- 
scribes them in 1839. In form they are beautifully shaped, with 
short legs, straight back, horns of a very fine texture, as also th 
skin so that some of the bulls appear of a cream color.{ In 1845, 
Low says that the eyelashes and tips of the horns are black, the 
muzzle brown, the inside and a portion of the external parts of the 
ears are reddish-brown, and all the rest of the animal white. 
_ bulls have merely the rudiments of manes, consisting of a ridge of 
coarse hair upon the neck.§ In 1852, William Dickinson sa 
that their bodies are pale cream. color,the ear tips red and the 
muzzle black.|| In 1868, Darwin describes them as white 
the inside of the ears reddish-brown, eyes rimmed with black, 
muzzle brown, hoofs black, and horns white tipped with blac 
Youatt mentions the existence of a mane on some of the bulls, y 
and one-half or two inches in length.** —_ 
As a wild race we hear of their occurrence at rare intervals. 
the time of Edward the Confessor (1042), we are told by on 
the abbots of St. Albans that wild bulls abounded near Londo 
and Fitz-Stephen writing about 1174, speaks likewise of | 
occurrence i in these woods.{{~- In 1760, wild white cattle were 
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-ticular in tracing the accounts of this breed, as Wilson m 
= that 1 no sufficient evidence has ever been brought forward 
that these m are T to the character of an abori 
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lete Grazier, p. i. bum ak. PERA iv, 202. 
Mag. of Nat, Hist., 1839, ii, 277. § Low’s Animals, 237. 
- A. S., 1852, xiii, ta f i 
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