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hich is so noticeable in the latter, and the long hair on this part of the 

 body never makes such a heavy mass as in that species. The pasterns are 

 lon^ ; and the tail, which may be long-haired throughout, as in the 

 accompanying photographs, or only at the tip, as in the dead Caucasian 

 specimen photographed in Prince DemidofF's book, on hunting in the 

 Caucasus, reaches at least as low as the hocks. When the photograph 

 on page i 17 of the Woburn bull was taken the long hair of the head and 

 fore-quarters was chiefly developed on the crown ot the head, forehead, 

 middle of the face, and the middle line of the under surface from the 

 chin to between the fore-legs ; there being little mane on the neck, 

 although the ears are fringed with long hair. A similar throat-fringe and 

 forelock are noticeable in the bull from the Caucasus in the British 

 Museum ; the tail in this specimen being tufted only at the end. On the 

 other hand, in a Caucasian bull figured by Prince Demidoft"^ there is a 

 well-marked upright mane on the neck. In an old bull from Lithuania 

 presented to the British Museum by the Tsar about 1845 ^^^ mantle of 

 longish curly hair investing the whole of the fore-quarters is very well 

 developed ; the hair being much longer on the head, throat, and the 

 middle line of the chest than elsewhere. Although the colour ot the hair 

 in all the specimens now exhibited in the British Museum is bright 

 chestnut-brown, this seems to be due to fading, the colour of the bull and 

 cow now (March 1901) living in the park at Woburn Abbey being in 

 the main puce -brown with a tinge of greyish purple. The head, 

 especially in the bull, is, however, nearly black, and the mantle of long 

 hair on the withers tends to tawny, especially when about to be shed. 



None of the differences indicated above seem to be more than 

 individual or seasonal, and do not support the idea of a racial distinction 

 between the Lithuanian and Caucasian animals, which are stated, however, 

 to differ somewhat in size and colour. 



' Tlic figure is reproduced in IJ'i/i/ Oxc/i, etc., p. 76. 



