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Mathias at Lamphey Court, Pembrokeshire, which, 
as mentioned in the last chapter, closely approximate 
to the Chartley park-breed. This herd is stated ^ to 
have been produced in recent times by selecting white 
individuals from herds of ordinary Pembroke cattle 
and breeding from them ; but, as recorded in the 
preceding chapter, a white breed with dark ears has 
been known in Pembrokeshire from at least as early 
as the tenth century. 
As the intimate relationship existing between 
Pembroke and park cattle, and the affinity of both 
to the aurochs, have been discussed in Chapter IV, 
it will suffice to state that the Pembroke and West 
Highland breeds are undoubtedly indigenous to 
Great Britain, and are of great antiquity. 
It remains to add that in Glamorganshire the 
Pembroke cattle are represented by an allied breed 
with red coats, which approximates to the Hereford, 
and is described in connection with the latter. The 
connection between the Pembroke and Glamorgan 
breeds is of interest as showing how easily black 
passes into red among cattle. 
As was pointed out by Professor David Low^ so 
long ago as 1842, the small Kerry cattle of the 
mountains of western Ireland, which are nearly 
related to the Pembroke breed, are of special interest 
on account of the frequent presence of a white line 
along the spine, doubtless a direct inheritance from 
the aurochs. Apart from this dorsal white line, and 
frequently another along the belly, the original Kerry 
was generally black, although it might be red, black 
and white, or black and red. The black-tipped horns 
^ Naturalist^ 1908, p. 336. 
2 Domesticated Animals of the British Islands ^ 8vo ed. p. 309. 
