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284 lingham, many of the cows, as well as the bulls, looking a dirty cream-colour about the neck. The cattle-keeper told me that there had been twenty calves born this year, including five black ones, which he said were always "the bonniest calves, and a' mostly quees." He had heard the story that they were all killed off but one during the last century, and that the way the herd was started again was by breeding with the sole surviving bull and a common cow. During the rinderpest the herd was reduced to eight, not because the disease attacked them, but because they were killed by order of the local authorities, a few young animals being hidden in corners of the park and clown coal-mines.

This second bull's head, said to have belonged to the animal killed on the coming of age of the present Earl, is extremely different to any other in this herd, and is much more like the Chilliugham heads, being covered all over with curly hair, about 2£ inches long, and the general direction of the horns is upward.

t The only one preserved.