WILD WHITE CATTLE. 219 
But our concern is not so much with the origin of the 
race of wild white cattle, of which a few representative 
animals still survive, as with the hstory of the herds 
which are known to have been preserved in different 
parts of the country, and of which some half-dozen 
still exist at the present day. Of these we propose 
to give some account; but, before doing so, we may 
glance briefly at the historical notices of the existence 
of wild cattle in England and Scotland which have 
been preserved to us in the works of various his- 
torlans, antiquaries, and naturalists. On looking 
over the plates of British coins figured by Camden 
in his ‘“‘ Britannia” (vol. i. p. Ixv.) we were struck by 
a coin of Cunobelin (fig. 13) bearing on the obverse 
a head of this king, and on the reverse a really 
characteristic figure, as we take it, of a wild bull—an 
animal which was no doubt frequently hunted by the 
early rulers of Britain. 
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COIN OF CUNOBELIN. 
Some indication of the existence of wild cattle 
in Saxon times is furnished in the celebrated 
traditionary legend of the slaughter of the wild 
cow by Guy Earl of Warwick, which is said to 
have taken place in the days of King Athelstan 
(A.D. 925-941). The ballad, “Sir Guy of War- 
wick,” is given in Ritson’s “Ancient Songs and 
