250 ERNEST WARREN. 



had no liorns, lie was exceedingly ugly, and had a broad, 

 much wrinkled forehead, and a rather short snout. 



This Kerry bull was mated with an ordinary local cow (a 

 cross between a Friesland and Africander ox) with short 

 horns, and there I'esulted a hornless cow (No. 1). Subse- 

 quently the Kerry bull was mated Avith a Friesland cow with 

 short horns, and a bull (No. 1) was produced with short horns. 

 Cow No. 1 and bull No. 1, who were consequently half- 

 brother and sister, were mated, and the offspring produced, 

 which was the first of the cow, was abnormal, and approached 

 the bulldog-headed calf above described. This occurred 

 some ten years ago. 



Bull No. 1 was mated Avith an unrelated Friesland cow with 

 short horns, and produced a cow (No. 2). Subsequently he 

 was mated with another Friesland cow with short horns, and 

 there resulted a bull (No. 2) with horns some five inches in 

 leno-th. Cow No. 2 and bull No. 2 were therefore half-brother 



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and sister. They were paired and produced the six-months 

 bulldog-headed calf of which the viscera have been described. 



Bull No. 2 was also mated with his half-aunt, cow No. 1, 

 and the result was the seven-months bulldog-headed calf of 

 which the skeleton has been above described. 



About a year and a half ago bull No. 2 was paired with an 

 unrelated local cow, and a similar abnormal result was 

 produced. 



Bull No. 2 has crossed some nine or ten cows, related and 

 unrelated, and altogether there have resulted twenty or more 

 calves ; out of these, three similarly abnormal offspring have 

 been produced, Avhile the remainder have been perfectly 

 healthy and normal. 



The close in-breeding does not appear to have been the 

 cause of the abnormalities, since in the case of a quite un- 

 related cow a similar calf was produced. 



The grandfather of bull No. 2 was very exceptionally 

 wrinkled and ugly, and this character appears to have been 

 inherited from the imported Cape cow, and to have reappeared 

 in a greatly aggravated form in the descendants. 



