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RUMINANTIA. 



BOVID^. 



BOVIDjE. 







Genus Bos (Linnaeus). 



Generic Character. — Horns hollow, persistent, growing ou a bony core, 

 conical and ciirved. Body thick and heavy. Tail long, terminated hy a 

 tuft of long hair. Teats fonr. 



WILD WHITE CATTLE. 



Bos taurus (Linn.). Var. Scoticus, 



Character of Var ieti/.— Colour white, the ears tipped either witli red or 

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

 with black tips. 



Bos taurus, Linn^us, 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 



