244 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
With the Urus, before it disappeared, there appears a small 
ox, not larger than a “ Kerry,” known as Bos longifrons or Bos 
brachyceros, having small horns sharply curved forward and 
inward before it. If this animal be not indigenous to Britain, it 
must have been introduced at a very early date. This ox was 
present in great num- 
bers in pre-Roman 
and Roman times ; 
in fact, the Romans 
found no other but it 
in Britain, and, as 
already stated, their 
middens are full of its 
bones. From a skull 

Sa at i =e with both horns on 
Fre. 15.—Devon Bull (old type). horn cores (Fig. 13), 
From 7'he Farmer and Stockbreeder, May 9, 1898. and having a part of 
the skin with the hair attached, of the Bos longifrons found in 
Treland, we can say that in colour it was black, or dark reddish 
or brownish, and 
showed a rough shag- 
gy hide like our High- 
land Kyloes (Fig. 14). 
According to Werner, 
the black - brinaled 
Celtic cattle are the 
Kerry and Welsh 
breeds, and the red , 
Celtic cattle are the pee Mie 7 ears ; ire 
Devons Aig. Le ee From The Farmer ee eee: ae 9, 1898. 
sex (Fig. 16), and 
Herefords. The Celtic Shorthorn, then a dark-coloured race, with 
forward small horns, was the indigenous cattle of the country.! 


1 According to Martin we have three distinct stocks—First, that from 
which came the Craven Longhorns of Lancashire; secondly, that from 
which come the Devons, Herefords, Welsh, and Scotch Highlanders. 
“© To this stock,” writes Martin, ‘‘the wild cattle of Chillingham evidently 
belong”; and thirdly, an ancient stock of polled black cattle from 
which come the Galloway and Angus cattle. 
