246 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Sir John Evans, who is the authority on the subject, says that 
some of the coins of the aneient Britons are so distinctly borrowed 
from Roman originals that the bull upon them can hardly be 
regarded as representing any particular British breed. In some 
instances the bull appears to have been derived from that on the 
copper coinage of Massilia. Sir John Evans, however, points out 
in his ‘British Coins,” when referring to the Bucranium, that 
‘the occurrence of the bull’s head on the coins of so many British 
princes points to some superstition in connection with it.” This 

Fra. 18.—Pugliesi Cattle—Prize Ox. From Days spent on a Doge’s Farm. 
superstition has not, as far as I am aware, come down tous. Sir 
John Evans adds that Mr. Bateman has also pointed out “ that 
the not infrequent occurrence of the whole or part of the head of 
the ox in British barrows” also goes to prove the existence of 
some peculiar superstition in connection with it. It would be 
idle to conjecture if they bear any reference to white cattle. 
We have now three breeds to deal with. First. the Celtic Short- 
horn, whose horns and colour differed materially from the white 
cattle of our parks. Then the Romano-British breed (Fig. 17), found 
only in areas long oecupied by Romans, which is simply the native 
