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certainly stood six feet high. These cattle may have also been 
derived from the stock of one of the monasteries of the Premonstra- 
tensian Order, which had privileges over certain manors, including 
Brooke and Kustead, in both of which parishes Sir Roger Kerri- 
son’s ancestors lived. Mr. Storer, speaking of this herd, concludes 
his account thus: “It demonstrates by the clearest evidence how 
strong has been the influence of the wild forest breed upon our 
domestic cattle, how wonderfully persistent is the type, and how it 
reproduces itself under the most unlikely circumstances—often, 
perhaps, when its very existence is altogether unsuspected.” 
IX. BURTON CONSTABLE Herp.'—This herd is situated in the 
Holderness or East Riding District of Yorkshire. Storer is not 
very definite about this herd as to its character. It appears to have 
been a polled herd. Bewick (1790) gives a brief account of it. 
He states it was carried off “a few years ago by a distemper.” 
These cattle were much larger than the Chillingham horned cattle, 
many weighing sixty stones (eight hundred and forty pounds). 
SCOTTISH HERDS. 
X. Arprossan Herp! (Ayrshire), property of the Lords 
Eglinton, was mentioned by Sir John Sinclair in 1814 as one of 
the then few remaining examples of Caledonia’s ancient breed. It 
survived till about 1820. They had black points. They were 
enclosed about 1750. They were traditionally believed to have 
been horned when introduced to Ardrossan. They were certainly 
all, or very nearly all, polled within the memory of man. The 
cause of their becoming hornless was the result of an introduction 
from the polled Hamilton herd. In other respects they seemed to 
have differed little from the Caledonian wild cattle, except that per- 
haps they were smaller. Mr. George Rob- AR 
ertson, author of several such works, in 
his Description of Cuningham and Ayr- 
shire, published 1820, says: “They are 
altogether wild ; they have no horns; they 
are distinguished by the name Caledo- 
` nian,” being an offshoot of the older Ham- 
ilton. 
XI. Tae Hamrox Herp (Lanark- 
shire), known also by the names Cadzow pee mr ee 
and Chatelherault. Mr. Brown, chamber- Waras’ Zoology.) 
lain to the Duke of Hamilton, in Jesse’s Natural History, describes 
