The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay (1910) (14781789544)

Identifier: vertebratefaunao01cowa (find matches)

Title: The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay

Year: 1910 (1910s)

Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933

Subjects: Vertebrates Vertebrates

Publisher: London : Witherby

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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d the ears white inside andout. The measurements below are those given by Mr.Cocks,* who states that it is the head of a bull; Mr. J. E.Pardy, the agent, however, told us that it is a cows. The late Mrs. John Leigh of Hale Barns had in herpossession a head which we have examined. The animal,which from the length of horn and comparative finenessof face we think was a bullock, was shot, we learnt fromMrs. Leigh, about the year 1848. We have been unable totrace into whose hands this head passed after IVIrs. Leighsdeath. The hair on the poll of this head was curly, the earschocolate-red inside and for about a third of their lengthfrom the extremities on the outside. One or two of theeyelashes which then remained were red, and there were afew red hairs above the black muzzle. The horns—yellowtipped with black—declined outwards and forwards andthen sHghtly inwards. This head and the older skull showperhaps best the original character of the Lyme cattle. * Cocks, Zoologist, 1878, p. 284.

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HORNS OF LYME CATTLE, LYME HALL. (80) MAMMALS 81 A head of a cow with horns of the altered type was in thepossession of Mr. J. Maclachlan of Buxton, but, when wesaw it, it was in poor condition and very dirty ; it wasdifficult to judge what the original colour had been. Thehead of a bull which we saw at Chartley Hall, said to bethat of an animal from Chillingham, probably representsthe Lyme bull sent in exchange in 1871. There is no recordof any ChiUingham beast having been sent to Chartley.* Measurements of Stuffed Heads (in Inches). a a . s s g 1 1 a ig § S •a to a g 8 g-e £ =4 fM Si S a iSl §1 § a C3 ^ C8P.CO ^1 K) O J3 Head at Lyme 25 130 9-5 10 210 Head at Hale 27 18-5 29-5 11 22-5 9-5 Until perhaps the middle of the last century a herd ofPark Cattle existed at Vale Royal Abbey, the seat of LordDelamere. Storerf describes it as an ancient domesticherd of white cattle with red ears, which, though nowcrossed out and extinct, was kept up, partially pure only,in the time of the

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