HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 37 



ing its head, it got up, pawed two or three times like an 

 old Bull, bellowed very loud, ftepped back a few fteps, 

 and bolted at his legs with all its force ; it then began to 

 paw again, bellowed, ftepped back, and bolted as before ; 

 but knowing its intention, and flepping afide, it miffed 

 him, fell, and was fo very weak that it could not rife, 

 though it made feveral efforts : But it had done enough : 

 The whole herd were alarmed, and, coming to its refcue, 

 obliged him to retire : for the dams will allow no perfon 

 to touch their calves, without attacking them with impe- 

 tuous ferocity. 



When any one happens to be wounded, or is grown 

 weak and feeble through age or ficknefs, the reft of the 

 herd fet upon it, and gore it to death. 



The weight of the Oxen is generally from forty to 

 fifty ftone the four quarters; the Cows about thirty. 

 The beef is finely marbled, and of excellent flavour. 



Thofe at Burton-Conftable, in the county of York, 

 were all deftroyed by a diftemper a few years finee. 

 They varied flightly from thofe at Chillingham, having 

 black ears and muzzles, and the tips of their tails of the 

 fame colour: They were alfo much larger, many of 

 them weighing fixty ftone ; probably owing to the rich- 

 nefs of the pafturage in Holdernefs ; but generally attri- 

 buted to the difference of kind between thofe with black 

 and with red ears, the former of which they ftudioufly 



endeavoured to preferve. The breed which was at 



Drumlanrig, in Scotland, had alfo black ears. 



