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in bis " Domestio Cattle of the Ancients/'" and he is universally 

 quoted by naturalists in support of this contention. Professor 

 Riitimeyer, I find, said such was his opinion of only one of our 

 herds of white cattle, namely, that at Chillingham Park (Fig. 1), 

 but, at the same time, he added that the fineness of the 

 Chillingham bone is not characteristic of a real wild race. On 

 this point we may quote Vasey, who, in his monograph on the 

 ox, says the •' Chillingham cattle are white and the Highland 



Fig. 1.— Head of the Chillingham Bull shot by H.R.H. Prince of Wales 



(1872). {Storer, p. 169.) 



cattle or Kyloes black, but, with this exception, the very same 

 description might serve for both breeds." Martin, who wrote in 

 1852, also says — "Change the colour from black to white, and 

 there is little difi'erence between the Kvloe from Arran, Islav, or 

 Isle of Skve, and one of the wild cattle of Chillinojham." Of course 

 it is admitted that the cranium will be less liable to modification 

 than any of the other bones in the skeleton, and that, even 

 if the bones are not characteristic, still vestiges of the original 



