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the kyloe or highland cattle. 
PLATE XXVIir. 
This, like the Black-faced Sheep, possesses the 
whole of the Highlands and the Western Isles of Scot- 
land- On their native pastures, where they are not 
housed, they are extremely rough and shaggy, and 
wild-looking; but, when driven to the Lowlands, they 
become more polished, and, on a richer pasture, in a 
wai mer climate, and with shelter at night, shew a rich 
and glossy covering, and a considerable degree of 
symmetry, uniting, at the same time, a firmness and 
compactness of limb and body. The favourite co- 
lour here is also black ; but nearly the same varieties 
as of the last are prevalent. It is a horned breed, 
and the horns should be round, polished, and white 
at the base, in an animal of high health and vigour. 
Immense droves of this breed pass annually to the 
south, where they are fed and supplied to the Lon- 
don markets. They are easily fed, and afford rich 
and excellent beef. The smallest breeds are reared 
in the Isle of Skye. 
These varieties, which we have now shortly enu- 
merated, are the principal which are reared in this 
