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THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



sheaths used to exist in the Museum of New College, 

 Edinburgh, but these and the skull to which they belonged 

 were found in an Irish bog in Co. Limerick, and I do not 

 know that any horn-sheaths of the Celtic Shorthorn have 

 been found in Scottish peat-bogs other than the three in- 

 dividuals found in draining a peat-moss at Blair-Drummond, 

 in Southern Perthshire, in the early years of the nineteenth 

 century. 



The discovery of a horn-sheath in the peat of the uplands 

 of Peeblesshire is therefore of interest, the more so as remains 



A. Fragmentary Skull of Celtic Shorthorn from Roman Station at Newstead, 



bearing horn-sheath from Manorhead on right horn-core (1 nat. size linear). 

 The point of view is at right angles to the plane of the facial surface of the 

 skull, so that the horn appears to curve more strongly downwards than it 

 would do if the skull were tilted as an ox carries it, 



B. Rough Sketch of Skull from side, to show relative cuiTature of horn-sheath. 



of the Celtic Shorthorn have not previously been recorded 

 from the peat of the county, and have only once been met 

 with, so far as my knowledge goes, in the peat of the Tweed 

 valley. The specimen was found by Mr William Hamilton 

 of Manorhead, in a moss not far from the source of the 

 Manor Water, a tributary on the south bank of the Tweed, 

 entering the main river near Peebles. The mioss stands at 

 an elevation of some 2000 feet, and in its layers the horn was 

 buried to a depth of some six feet, where it lay probably not 

 far from the surface of the bed of marl which underlies the 



