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down rather lower behind the fore-legs; narrow bands of white round legs just above the knees and by, or rather below, the hocks. She has a fine glossy, smooth coat. Horns much the same shape, and put on at the same angle, as the horn-cores of Bos primigenius, with black tips. Nose black; udder white. The end of her tail just reaches the ground, Two heifers, not quite full grown— one out of each of the existing cows; both, I believe, by the Chartley bull. One of them— I imagine the black cow's calf— has the nose black and a little black on fore-fetlocks, and black ears. The other has flesh-coloured nose with black smutting, and rusty black or reddish inside of ears. These five last-mentioned are on the moor, which is said to be about seven miles in circumference. I found them feeding near the lower edge, where the grass was very rough, with rushes. At the farm they have a yearling heifer by the Chartley bull out of a common cow, which was, according to the farm-boy, a roan. The heifer is exactly like the wild breed— black nose and ears, &c.—except that the proportionate size of her fore and hind quarters seem more equalized, as in a tame animal. Also a very small heifer, about the same age as the last, or even possibly older, given by Mr. D. Assheton Smith, who I understand has a herd of white cattle in his park (Bala, North Wales), and one man believed that he had procured them from Scotland.^[1] This heifer has a dull, almost lead-coloured nose, and long rough coat, with pink insides to the ears—an ugly, stunted-looking little thing. These two are both, I fear, going to be added to the herd,—and are, indeed, reckoned with it now, as I was told it consisted of eight head,— which seems a very great pity. A garden man told me that about thirty years ago the herd numbered as many as thirty -four.

Chillingham.—Visitors to Chillingham Castle, Northumberland (the seat of the Earl of Tankerville), are requested not to go into the park unless with the park-keeper, and as the cattle are shy here (far more so than even the red deer), the park-keeper, Mickie only takes one so as to get a distant view, in order not to frighten them; for, as he says, they can take plenty of exercise for themselves, without being made to gallop for every visitor that comes to see them. Hence, although I had excellent distant views on July 4th and 5th, I was unable to inspect this herd closely. The