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 about Barnstaple on the north coast: the district in which the modern North Devon breed originated. The polled Devons were described to Lawrence as "coloured, middle-sized, thick-set, and apt to make fat, but coarser than the true-bred Devon." Their colour is not recorded, but, in the "Annals of Agriculture" for 1792, a writer called Treby mentions both yellow and hornless cattle in South Devon.'

The Somerset Polls.—These are also extinct. Low wrote of them: "The Sheeted Breed of Somerset &hellip; has existed in the same parts of of England from time immemorial. The red colour of the hair has a slight yellow tinge, and the white colour passes like a sheet over the body. The individuals are sometimes horned, but more frequently they are hornless." There is a portrait of two sheeted Somerset cows, a horned and a hornless, in the Low collection of paintings in Edinburgh University.

The Irish Maoiles.—Hornless cattle of the old Irish race are found here and there chiefly in the west and in the north: from the level of Roscommon to Donegal and Antrim. Their numbers are now small, and there being no