254 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
“If a selection of the lighter-coloured individuals of the common 
draught ox of Italv were turned out in a park in England, no one 
would suspect that they did not belong to the wild white breed. 
There would be less difference between them and the Chillingham 
cattle, in essential characters of form and colour, than there is, for 
instance, between the Chillingham and Chartley herds (Fig. 25). 
In both the wild cattle and the Roman breed we have a rectangular 
animal, with upturned black-tipped horns, a tendency to be sym- 
metrically shaded from a mouse or dun or fawn eolour to white, 
black or pink-lined ears, and black tail ends.” 

Fie. 25.—White Cattle, Chartley Herd. 
Seeing that the claims of our park cattle to be descendants of 
Bos primigenius rest solely on the opinion of Professor Riitimeyer, 
a comparative osteological examination of the English park cattle 
and the Bos primigenius would, in my opinion, be of service. 
Unfortunately, our distinguished scientific naturalists acknowledge 
that they know and care but little about domesticated breeds of 
cattle, of which they regard the white park cattle as one; and 
they also think, seeing the close similarity of the bones of cattle 
generally, that no results of any importance would accrue if such 
were undertaken. 
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