Wild Cattle of Great Britain. 503 
British Wild White Cattle (Bos urus). 
I. Horned Variety. 
1. Sub-variety, having black ears, but no black tip to tail. 
Chartley, Drumlanrig, and Athole! Herds, 
2. Sub-variety, having red or brown ears, but no black tip 
to tail. 
Chillingham and Lyme! Herds. 
II. Polled Variety. 
English Herds. 
(a) Somerford, Cheshire—Black points. 
~ Wollaton, Nottinghamshire—Black points. 
Burton Constable,? Yorkshire—Black points. 
(b) Gisburne,? Yorkshire—Red or brown points. 
(Whalley Abbey.’) 
(e) Middleton, Lancashire—Black and dark brown 
or red points. 
Gunton,!* Norfolk—Black*and dark brown or red 
points. 
Blickling,? Norfolk—Black and dark brown or red 
points. 
Woodbastwick,? Norfolk—Red and dark brown 
points. 
Brooke,!? Norfolk—Black and brown or red 
points. 
Scottish Herds. 
(d) Ardrossan,! Ayrshire—Black and brown or red 
points. 
(e) Hamilton, Lanarkshire—Black and brown or red 
points. 
The polled herds, it will be seen, have been and are still the 
more numerous, and a short description of each is appended. 
ENGLISH HERDS. 
_ I Tue Somerrorp Park Herp, near Congleton, Cheshire, 
1s a domesticated herd, but its cattle are very characteristic, having 
all the peculiar features of the White Forest breed. It is certainly 
of great, though unknown, antiquity, their owner, Sir Charles 
Shakerly, saying: “ We have no history of how they came or how 
long they have been here. I am of the third generation which has 
! Extinct. 2? Domesticated. 
