244 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OP GLASGOW, 



With the Urus, before it disappeared, there appears a small 

 OX, not larger than a '• Kerry," known as Bos longifrons or Bos 

 hrachyceros, having small horns sharply curved forward and 

 inward before it. If this animal be not indigenous to Britain, it 

 must have been introduced at a very early date. This ox was 



present in great num- 

 bers in pre -Roman 

 and Roman times ; 

 in fact, the Romans 

 found no other but it 

 in Britain, and, as 

 already stated, their 

 middens are full of its 

 bones. From a skull 

 with both horns on 

 horn cores (Fig. 13), 

 and having a pan of 

 the skin with the hair attached, of the Bos longifrons found in 

 Ireland, we can say that in colour it was black, or dark reddish 

 or brownish, and 

 showed a rouofh shasf- 

 gyhide like our High- 

 land Kyloes (Fig. 14). 

 According to Werner, 

 the black - brindled 

 Celtic cattle are the 

 Kerrv and Welsh 

 breeds, and the red 

 Celtic cattle are the 

 Devons (Fig. 15), Sus- 

 sex (Fig. 16), and 

 Herefords. The Celtic Shorthorn, then a dark-coloured race,, with 

 forward small horns, was the indigenous cattle of the country.^ 



Fig. 15.— Devon Bull (old type). 

 From The Farmer and Stockbreeder, May 9, 1898. 



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Fig. 16. — Sussex Bull (old type). 

 From The Farmer and Stockbreeder, May 9, 1898. 



^ According to Martin we have three distinct stocks — First, that from 

 which came the Craven Longhorns of Lancashire ; secondly, that from 

 which come the Devons, Herefords, Welsh, and Scotch Highlanders. 

 " To this stock," writes Martin, " the wild cattle of Chillingham evidently 

 belong"; and thirdly, an ancient stock of polled black cattle from 

 which come the Galloway and Angus cattle. 



