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visiting liis Imperial Higliness's estates at Ungariscli-Altenburg, 

 and Bellje, I had additional opportunity of observing them. At 

 the former estate, I was informed that the head must be short, 

 and broad between the eyes, and taper to a fine, narrow muzzle, 

 which should be black, Tiie eyes are black, the horns tipped 

 with black, and there is a light ring of hair around the muzzle. 

 The Altenburg AUgauers were giving 1^ gallons of milk daily. 

 Bernese (^Siciss) Race. — The red-and-white or red-and-black 

 Bernese formed one of the most conspicuous features of the 

 Cattle-show. The Bernese cattle are great favourites in Austro- 

 Hungary, and are esteemed both for milk and for fattening 

 purposes. They may, in general terms, be said to resemble 

 somewhat small and rather irregularly coloured Hereford cattle. 

 Count La:rish-Monnich, of Freystadt, Austrian Silesia, exhibited 

 a Bernese bull, with a white face and red body, broken with 

 white on the sides and flanks. Prince Schwarzenberg's Bernese 

 bull might have passed, both in colour and figure, for a fairly 

 good Hereford, with a trifle too much white about him. Others 

 were noticed similarly coloured, and it is needless to multiply 

 examples. There is also a black-and-white Bernese, as was well 

 illustrated by some fine specimens exhibited by Prince Schwarz- 

 enberg, and a brindled black-and-red Bernese is also occasionally 

 seen. In form, the Bernese are not unlike coarse Shorthorns. 

 There is also a certain similarity between this race and the 

 Pinzgau cattle. It will generally, however, be observed that while 

 the Bernese have white faces, the Pinzgau have red faces. Like 

 many races which have not been highly bred, the Bernese are large 

 in the bone ; they are long and deep in the carcass, and have 

 good broad hips. They are a little inclined to be low in the 

 chine, high at the tail-head, and heavy-looking about the head. 

 They attain to a large size, as may be shown from the following 

 measurements, taken from No. G85, a seven-year-old ox bred and 

 exhibited by Ritter von Theophil Ostaszevski, of Galicia : — 



ft. in. 



Girth behind shoulder 8 1 



Length from shoulder to tail 6 



Shoulder point to hook 4 2 



Girth below knee 9 



Girth above knee 14 



Height at shoulders 5 4 



Xos. 584-5 were a pair of very fine half-bred Bernese oxen. 

 The former measured in 



ft. in. 



Girth .s 6 



Length 5 10 



Totallength from poll to tailhead 7 10 



Height at shoulder 5 4 



Girth below knee 10 



Girth above knee 15 



