lieport on the Shcoj) Exhibited at Windsoi'. 
supplanted their progenitors known as the " Dun-faces." They 
spread throughout the Highlands, and, indeed, the greater part 
of Scotland. During the past fifty or sixty years, however, the 
Cheviots challenged the Black-faces, and ousted them to some 
extent, especially on the west coast. The bad winters of the 
years 1866-76 — according to a writer in Coleman's book on 
British sheep — tended to reverse the process, and to reinstate 
the hardier Black-faces. 
There were twenty-six entries at Windsor, the prize-winners 
being Professor McCracken, Messrs. William Walsh, John 
Archibald, and R. Sinclair Scott. 
Report of the J iidges of Black-Faced ^fountain Sheep. 
[Classes 224 to 226.] 
The all-aged Class of black-faced rams, though few in number, •were ot 
high class merit— the Fiest Prize sheep, No. 8548 (Mr. John Archibald), 
confiroiing the estimate made of him at Newcastle, where he was second as 
a dinmont. The Second Peize sheep, No. 3547 (Mr. John Archibald), is 
of great merit also, and the Thied Peize sheep, No. 3550 (Mr. R. Sinclair 
Scott), has proved his quality in several showyards in Scotland this year. 
The dinmonts are a good Class, and the First Prize gimmers are of good 
promise and will grow into very nice ewes. 
ROBEET PaTERSON. 
RoBT. Geeenshields. 
Welsh Mountain. 
The small ancient breed of the Welsh Mountains was at one 
time, as Mr. ]\Iorgan Evans remarks, the only sheep stock on 
hill and plain from Anglesea to the Bristol (Channel, from the 
Severn to Cardigan Bay. As agriculture in the principality 
improved, the larger English breeds, such as the Leicesters 
or Cotswolds, and later the Shropshires and Oxford Downs, 
were introduced in the lowlands and on the better-cultivated 
farms, while on the poorer soils and upland holdings crosses 
between these and the native sheep were extensively adopted. 
Thus the Mountain sheep were banished chiefly to the higher 
ranges, where they remain very largely in their pristine purity, 
and in practically unchallenged possession. Several attempts 
have been made to substitute other mountain breeds, such as 
the Cheviot, but, as might be expected, no other is found so 
suitable as that which is indigenous to the hills. 
The collection of this breed at Windsor comprised, as the 
Judges point out, some which did not seem true to type, but the 
prize sheep were very perfect. There were thirty-four entries, 
and the prizes were won by Messrs. John Jones, Godfrey Parry, 
and Owen Price. 
