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Cadzow, Hamilton, or Chatelherault—the first name being the 
name of their forest home, the second being one of the Scotch titles 
of the ducal owners, the third being their French title—are thus 
generally regarded as being the remains of the ancient breed of 
white cattle which was found on the island when the Romans first 
visited it, and which they represent as then running wild in the 
woods. The universal tradition in Clydesdale, where they were 
called “ Caledonian,” is that they have been at Cadzow from the 
remotest antiquity, and the probability is that they formed part of 
the establishments of the early British and Scottish kings. Sir 
Walter Scott’s stirring ballad on the hunting of the wild bull is too 
well known to need repetition. 
THE CALIFORNIA GRAY WHALE. 
(Rhacheanectes glaucus Cope.) 
BY JOHN DEAN CATON. 
FIRST saw this interesting animal eighteen years ago, when 
running down the coast on the steamer Orizava. We then 
met them in considerable numbers when on their migration north. 
We were running but a few miles from shore, and generally ob- 
served them on the seaward side, but sometimes on the shore side, 
Sometimes they appeared quite close to the ship and did not seem 
to be much alarmed by the presence of the steamer. I have since 
taken pains to inform myself of the habits and mode of capture of 
this great sea mammal and think I may safely say that it is the 
most interesting of all the species of whale known to inhabit the 
great seas, perhaps because it is the best understood. 
It does not inhabit the distant depths of the broad oceans but its 
habitat is confined to the coast line of the Pacific from Cape St. — 
Lucas at the southern extremity of the peninsula of California to 
Behring sea and even into the Arctic ocean, where it sports among 
the icebergs of the north with as much apparent pleasure as it rolls 
and tumbles among the great breakers in its southern range. | 
If other species of whales are as strictly migratory as this we lack 
the evidence to prove it. If others wander about into different: 
Seas, and even go from ocean to ocean, they do not move with that. 
