156 



THE OX TRIBE. 



in delicacy of flavour, and bears a higher price at market. 

 However this superiority of the flavour does not appear to 

 be universal, for Mr. Hunter was informed of a case 

 which occurred in Berkshire, in which the flesh of a Free 

 Martin turned out nearly as bad as bull beef. This 

 circumstance probably arose from the animal having more 

 the properties of a bull than a cow. 



Mr. Hunter, having had many opportunities of dis- 

 secting Free Martins, has satisfactorily shown that their 

 incapacity to breed, and all their other peculiarities, result 

 from their having the generative organs of both sexes com- 

 bined, in a more or less imperfect state of development, 

 in some cases the organs of the male preponderating, in 

 others those of the female. 



The above, which is copied from an engraving in 

 Hunter's work on the ' Animal Economy/ is a represen - 

 tation of a Free Martin, five years old ; it shows the ex- 



