West Highland

West Highland
any of a breed of small, hardy, usually dun-colored, shaggy-haired beef cattle with long, widespread horns, able to withstand the cold and sparse pasturage of its native western Scottish uplands. Also called Scotch Highland, Kyloe; Brit. Highland.
[1870-75]

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