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EVOLUTION OF BRITISH CATTLE

But, "the horns were made this time of lead, lest she should ever again be reduced to the condition of a polled beast."[1]

The Durham dun cow
[From Hutchinson's "History of Durham."

The Angus Doddies and the Buchan Humlies.—The hornless cattle of Forfarshire and Aberdeenshire may be considered together because their histories are parallel, and because,although there are no definite records to the point, there can be very little doubt but that they are merely separate links in a chain of hornless cattle that occupied the lands on the coast from Forfarshire to Morayshire, if not farther. These cattle are not mentioned by any writer till within a few years of the close of the eighteenth century,

  1. "Thomas Bates and the Kirklevington Shorthorns," 1897, p. 46.