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of Grodno, whence a pair was sent by the Emperor of 

 Russia to the Zoological Society of London in that year. 

 It is found also in the Caucasus. 



Bos Scoticus. 



Bos Scoticus, Urus Scoticus, Bell, Brit. Quad. 

 Urus ScoticKs, Hamilton Smith. 

 The Chillingham Wild Ox. 



Desceiption. — This species is preserved in a few parks in 

 the North of England and South of Scotland, of which the 

 two principal are that of Chillingham in Northumberland, 

 and Hamilton in Lanarkshire. In the former locality the 

 colour' is invariably white over the body ; the muzzle black ; 

 the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of 

 the outside, from the tip downwards, red; the horns are 

 very fine, long, and white, ^dth black tips ; the head and 

 legs slender and elegant. The weight varies from fifty to 

 sixty stone. 



The Hamilton breed is larger and more robust, and 

 differs also in colour and markings ; the body being dun- 

 white, the inside of the ears, muzzle, and hoofs black, and 

 the fore-part of the leg, from the knee downwards, mottled 

 with black. The cows are seldom horned. Their bodies 

 are thick and short, their hmbs stouter, and their heads 

 much rounder than in the Chillingham cattle ; the roof of 

 the mouth is black, or spotted with black; the tongue 

 tipped with black. 



There seems no reason to doubt that this species is de- 

 scended from the wild race of cattle which existed in the 

 woods of Britain at the arrival of the Romans. 



