258 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
latter, which bears more the character of a mountain race— 
smaller, very strong, and much more hardy. One point deserves 
special attention—the prepotency of our present white Hungarian 
and South Italian cattle are generally acknowledged, and this 
further points to an ancient breed with a strong prepotency of 
transmission. It is, no doubt, to this power in the cattle 
imported by the Romans that we owe the present markings 
of our white park cattle. Without selection, and under feral 
conditions, cattle revert, become whole-coloured, and assume 
lighter colours only if such be the character of the original stock. 
Darwin, Sanson, and Feser all agree in saying that yellow or 











































Fic. 26.—Picture from Pompeii (from Storer). 
fawn colour is noticeable, and comes out commonly when there is 
reason to suspect a commingling of two or more ancient breeds, 
Before passing away from the white domestic cattle of the 
Continent, I must refer to the white cattle of Roumania. Here, 
throughout a country as large as England and half of Scotland 
together, there is only one breed of cattle—a white race—and these 
cattle to-day maintain much of the form and stamp of the oxen 
figured on old Roman frescoes (Fig. 26). Writing about these 
cattle, in the Love Stock Journal, Mr. William Carnegie says :— 
“ White is far and away their predominant colour, although some 
of them trend towards a dun to brownish hue on their upper and 

