NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 143 
FIG.5. 
The second, or spotted variety, generally of smaller size, and 
predominating in Northern Switzerland, appears to agree with 
B. frontosus, a species found fossil in Sweden, and described by 
‘Nilsson.* 
If the conjectures of Riitimeyer be correct, we too must see in 
our domestic races a kindred origin. Our spotless, uniformly- 
coloured Chillingham cattle may, like the Swiss race, be des- 
cended from Bos longifrons, and we can affirm from personal 
observation that the dewlaps of the Swiss cattle are even more 
highly developed than in the Chillingham breed, a character on 
which Professor Owen mainly rests his Brahminical theory. 
Our indigenous kyloes and runts, smaller in size, and frequently 
spotted, we may assign, perhaps, to B. frontosus, which appears 
to be a northern species. 
Dr. Gray and many other writers agree in affirming the 
indigenous origin, and unbroken feral descent of the Chillingham 
cattle, and in identifying them with Bos Scoticus, the white 
Urus of Scotland, and the Bisontes Jubati of Boethius.t 
* Natural History Review, J Spray) 1862. 
Trans. Antiq. Soc. Zurich, 1860. 
Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten in der Schweiz.—Riitimeyer, 
+t Gray’s Catalogue Mammalia, Brit. Mus. 
