254 TRANSACTIONS; NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



" If a selection of the lighter-coloured individuals of the common 

 draught ox of Italy were turned out in a park in England, no one 

 would suspect that they did not belong to the wild white breed. 

 There would be less difference between them and the Chillingham 

 cattle, in essential characters of form and colour, than there is, for 

 instance, between the Chillingham and Chartley herds (Fig. 25). 

 In both the wild cattle and the Roman breed we have a rectangular 

 animal, with upturned black-tipped horns, a tendency to be sym- 

 metrically shaded from a mouse or dun or fawn colour to white, 

 black or oink-lined ears, and black tail ends." 



Fig. 25. — White Cattle, Chartley Herd. 



Seeing that the claims of our park cattle to be descendants of 

 Bos priiiiigenius rest solely on the opinion of Professor Riitimeyer, 

 a comparative osteological examination of the English park cattle 

 and the Bos primigenius would, in my opinion, be of service. 

 Unfortunatelv. our distinsjuished scientific naturalists acknowledjje 

 that they know and care but little about domesticated breeds of 

 cattle, of which they regard the white park cattle as one; and 

 they also think, seeing the close similarity of the bones of cattle 

 generally, that no results of any importance would accrue if such 

 were undertaken. 



