Again from Fenton: "The colours of the Northern Isles [i.e. Orkney and Shetland] cattle were white, black, brown or red and generally not uniform. A grimet... cow had a white face with dark spots or stripes. A lenget... cow or horse had a stripe across the back, or black and white stripes or markings over the back. If it was ridyid... it had a different coloured stripe down its back, often running from the back of the ears to the tip of the tail. In Birsay, this stripe was always white. Such a stripe was a rig in Shetland, giving rise to the cow name Rigga. If the cow was sholmit... its face was white and it might get the pet name Sholma. If it was vandit... it was usually of a brown or dun colour with black stripes, zebra-like." Several sources given by Fenton for the above relate to Shetland, but he also cites the Orcadians John Firth and Hugh Marwick. Norman Tulloch