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RUMINANTIA. 



BOVIDJI. 



BOVID^E. 



GENUS Bos (Linnaeus). 



Generic Character. Horns hollow, persistent, growing on a bony core, 

 conical and curved. Body thick and heavy. Tail long, terminated by a 

 tuft of long hair. Teats four. 



WILD WHITE CATTLE. 



Bos taurus (Linn.). Var. Scoticus. 



Character of Variety. Colour white, the ears tipped either with red or 

 black ; forehead flat, occipital ridge straight ; horns moderate, lyrate, white 

 with black tips. 



Bos taurus, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. I. 98. 



Urus scoticus, HAM. SMITH, in Griffith's An. Kingd. IV. 411. 



-Bos scoticus, SWAINSON, Quad. 285. 



THAT the White Cattle, preserved in a half-wild state 

 in a few parks in Scotland and England, are identical 

 in species with our domestic Oxen is now universally 



