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THE WHITE URCS, OR 
ginal habitation. From sixty to eighty head are kept 
up Iiere, a certain proportion being regularly de- 
stroyed, to prevent tlie increase of the breed beyond 
their means of support. About two-thirds of the 
stock may be cows, the remainder bulls and oxen. 
When becoming too numerous, they are killed, and 
used as beef, which is nearly similar in taste and 
flavour to that of the common kyloe. The colour 
of this stock is wliite, with red ears; and they ge- 
nerally reach from fifty to sixty stones in weight. 
The oxen feed heavier, and in shape and form ap- 
proach near to the Lancashire breed, the horns be- 
ing long, and beautifully turned. A few years ago, 
a fine ox was fed to a large size, and was quite tame 
and gentle. The present keeper of the park at one 
time possessed a cow, which he had taken when a 
calf, m consequence of the death of its mother: it 
was gentle, and milked as a cow, bred freely with 
the common bull; but the propagation was not al- 
lowed to proceed farther, the calves being killed at 
an early age. 
They go in herds, and on the approach of a stranger, 
after standing to gaze, like many other wild animals, 
wheel round him in a circle, which, if he is so impru- 
dent as to remain, will be gradually narrowed, till an 
attack is made. During the breeding-season, it is 
more dangerous to approach, as the calls of the 
young will always incite the parent or herd to at- 
tack the aggressor. When pursued or baited, they 
become very fierce, as they also do if but slightly 
