252 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
paintings and coins. These cattle are always whole-coloured— 
generally mouse or fawn standing off to white, the insides of the 
ears, the muzzle, and whole of the end of the tail being either 
black, reddish, or pink. These cattle found in South Italy 
probably came from Egypt, where their points had already been 
stereotyped through ages of domestication. In North Italy, in 
Emilia, and Umbria, there is a large animal with enormous 
horns growing spirally outwards from either side of the head. 
In colour it is like the breed in the south, and it no doubt came 
originally from Podolia. 
Martin. in his work 
on cattle already re- 
ferred to, writes — 
“In the Campagna 
of Rome a very fine 
race exists in a semi- 
wild state under the 
care of keepers or 
vaccart. Some of the 
bulls are extremely 
noble animals, often 
white, others are 
grey; the horns are 
large, well turned, 
and pointed.” 
As it would be in- 
teresting to compare 
this semi-wild race 

Fie. 23.—Chillingham Bull. British Museum. 
with our own white 
herd, I applied to the British Consul at Rome for assistance 
to obtain more exact information, and his reply is interesting. 
He writes—‘‘It appears that none of the herds at present 
existing in the Campagna can be described as white catitle, 
such as may have been used for sacrificial purposes in ancient 
Rome. The only breed of which I have heard answering the 
description given by Horace and other classical authors is to be 
found on the banks of Clytumnus, near Perugia—quite a special 
locality, not to be confounded with the country reund Perugia 
generally.” 
