502 BOVID A, 
other British specimens of the Bos primigenius have shown 
superior dimensions of the bony supports of the horns. The 
breadth of the forehead between the horns is ten inches and 
a half; from the middle of the occipital ridge to the 
back part of the orbit it measures thirteen inches; the 
length of the series of upper molar teeth is six inches and a 
half; the breadth of the occipital condyles is six inches. 
In the manuscript catalogue of the British Museum this 
fine specimen is ascribed to “the Caledonian Ox, Bos 
taurus, var. gigantea.” But the wild white variety with 
black muzzles, ears, and horns, the ‘ boves sylvestres” of 
Leslie,* which are identical with the cattle preserved at 
Chillngham, are of very inferior dimensions, and differ 
particularly in the smaller proportional size, and finer and 
more tapering figure of the horns. The Kyloes of the 
mountainous regions of Scotland, which are more likely 
to have been derived from an indigenous wild race than 
the cattle of the Lowlands, differ still more from the Bos 
primigenius than does the Chillingham breed in their di- 
minutive size, and very short horns. 
“ Many of the skulls which occur in marl-pits in Scot- 
land,” says Dr. Fleming, “exhibit dimensions superior 
to those of the largest domesticated breed. A skull in my 
possession measures twenty-seven inches and a half in 
length, nine inches between the horns, and eleven inches 
and a half across the orbits.” + These doubtless were of 
the same species as the skull from Perthshire, in the 
British Museum ; and, from the very recent character of 
the osseous substances, it may be concluded that the Bos 
primigenius maintained its ground longest in Scotland 
before its final extinction. 
* © De origine, moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum, Rome, 1678,’ p. 10. 
+ ‘ History of British Animals,’ p. 24, 
