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mere county strife of tlie white and mottled roses, as the dark 
and the light grey breeds possessed some very loyal adherents. 
All four had their claims allowed in the drawings on stone, and 
the mottle-faced " Wellington," which was sold for 283Z. in 181G, 
the dark-grey "Victory," the white-faced " Cotmore " (376) — a 
first prize Royal Agricultural Society's bull at Oxford — and the 
light-grey " Brockswood," were the chosen portraits for the first 
volume. Mr. Eyton did not receive any very hearty support, 
and resigned his task after the second volume to Mr. VV. Styles 
Powell, who died before he had comjileted the third, and Mr. 
Duckham, the present editor, entered upon his labours in 1857. 
A more able Registrar-General could not have been found. 
The sixth volume carries the bulls down to "Zouavite" (2S05), 
and contains entries — of which Mr. Naylor furnished 57, and 
the late Mr. Rea of Monaughty, 60 — from no less than 231 
breeders. Among them are a few names from America, Canada, 
Germany, Australia, Ireland, and Jamaica ; but, with the excep- 
tion of one in Aberdeenshire, there are no breeders further north 
than Shropshire and Montgomeryshire. 
The mottle-faces were generally supposed to be akin to the 
dark, and the white-faces to the light-grey ; but the four varieties 
have pretty nearly merged into the red with white face, mane, 
and throat. In fact, it has been very reasonably argued from the 
circumstance of "a Hereford Avith a red ring round his eye" 
being specially alluded to in Mr. Brandreth Gibbs's ' History of 
the Smithfield Club,' as one of the Show beasts in 1812, that the 
Hereford of that day was chiefly connected in graziers' minds 
with a white face. Still Mr. Monkhouse's evidence, which vir- 
tually refers to the same period, does not favour the idea that 
such a complete fusion of the sorts had then taken place. 
Those cousins-german, the mottle-faces and the dark-greys, had 
not many points of difference. In both of them small red spots 
were plentifully interspersed among the white ; but in the former 
these spots were of a darker colour, and more on the face and 
feet, while the broad white stripe along the back was wanting. 
The horn of the dark-greys was shorter, and had more of the 
" Ayrshire cock," and no black tip. These dark-greys were also 
smaller in size than the mottle-faces, smoother in their coats — a 
point which Herefordshire breeders do not covet — and better 
both in their crops and their temper. The mottle-faces were 
popularly known as "Ben Tomkins' sort;" but although they 
made his fame at Wellington Court, he attributed much of his 
success to the use of "Silver" (41), a white-faced bull. The 
picture of that equally eminent breeder, the late Mr. Price of 
Rjall, which meets the eye in so many West-Midland homes, is 
as true an emblem of faith in the Plereford, as that of the late 
