142 THE WILD CATTLE OF SCOTLAND. ee 
dark muzzles.* They are said to have been originally brought — 
from Whalley Abbey, in Lancashire, upon its dissolution in ; 
The herd at Burton Constable, also in Yorkshire, situated in the- 
district of Holderness, all perished in the middle of the last cen- 
tury of an epidemic disorder. They were of large size, and had 
the ears, muzzle and tip of the tail, black.t 
At Chartley Park, in Staffordshire, P the property i of 
i Lord Ferrers, Low states that a herd exists, resembling those at 
o Chillingham, but of larger size, and having the muzzles and ears 
black. - He also adds that they frequently tend’to become entirel, 
black. This herd is very ancient, haying existed in this park io 
time immemorial.§ 
Wild cattle, says Low, have been or are yet preserved at Wok 
- laton in Nottinghamshire and at Limehall in Cheshire, Englan I 
and Bewick states that the ears and nose of all of them are black.4 
These cattle, i in the possession of ancestral families, and main- 
tained and protected i in parks, undoubtedly as a family pride, ha pi 
with difficulty been preserved throu 
weeding out of blemishes, we can see they were unable to retain 
their color or form much more than a resemblance. In the A 
lingham cattle the muzzle is described as black or brown, the 
inwardly, and in part externally, red, reddish-brown and rea 
brown. Their-manes either short, or rudimentary, or not exis 
We find black ears and blemishes occurring at different tim 
the Hamilton herd we find them generally with horns at an 
“date, but afterwards the- females: usually polled. Black s} 
te sides and legs are noticed. They are described as po 
_ mahes of from four to five inches long, especially some 
> e litubs have become stouter and their heads shorter than 
sham breed at the other end of the ancient wood. 
darcy ig have become polled, presumably in both sexes 
urne Park, they are not only hornless, but only the i 
their ears are colored, and occasionally they lose their dark 
‘At Burton Constable, among their fertile pastures, we vce 
s _ crease of ee ia the effect of the abundance of the feed, and 
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Haws An ee nigh as ina ss 
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