226 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW, 
in his “ Domestic Cattle of the Ancients,” and he is universally 
quoted by naturalists in support of this contention. Professor 
Riitimeyer, I find, said such was his opinion of only one of our 
herds of white cattle, namely, that at Chillingham Park (Fig. 1), 
but, at the same time, he added that the fineness of the 
Chillingham bone is not characteristic of a real wild race. On 
this point we may quote Vasey, who, in his monograph on the 
ox, says the “Chillingham cattle are white and the Highland 

Fic. 1.—Head of the Chillingham Bull shot by H.R.H. Prince of Wales 
(1872). (Storer, p. 169.) 
cattle or Kyloes black, but, with this exception, the very same 
description might serve for both breeds.” Martin, who wrote in 
1852, also says—‘ Change the colour from black to white, and 
there is little difference between the Kyloe from Arran, Islay, or 
Tsle of Skye, and one of the wild cattle of Chillingham.” Of course 
it is admitted that the cranium will be less liable to modification 
than any of the other bones in the skeleton, and that, even 
if the bones are not characteristic, still vestiges of the original 
