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The point- of a good oi may be thua stated : the head should be long, the muzzle fine; the 

 countenance calm :u:< I quiet; the horns fine; the neck light; the breast wide; the shoulders 

 moderate!} broad; the fore flank well filled up ; the girth, behind the shoulders, deep; the back 

 straight, wide, and flal ; the ribs broad; the belly well kept in, and not sinking low; the hind- 

 quarters — thai is, from the hips to the extremity of the rump — long and straight; the legs 

 Btraight, clean, and fine-boned, and when the animal is in high condition, the skin is of a rich 

 and silky appearance. 



■ natural duration of life with the Ox and Cow''' is upward of twenty yars; the latter is 



fill for milk nearly to thai age; the former loses his vigor at an earlier period. 



I su I'm, Vina.- The remains of deer and oxen occur abundantly in the tertiary beds, with ex- 

 tine: Bpei i( - of existing genera of Pachydermata, such as the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, 

 and horse, and the extincl genera of the mastodon and large carnivora,aa the tiger, hyena, and bear. 

 mosl interesting of these is the Bos primigenius, to which we have already alluded. This ani- 

 mal musl have been a third larger than any existing bovine species, but the structure so closely re- 

 Bembles that of the dome-tie ox thai Cuvier considered it to have been the original stock whence 

 this proceed) d. This opinion is now generally discredited, and the Bos primigenius is considered 

 a distim t Bpecies. < >ther species of fossil ox found in Europe and America are the Bos largifrons, 

 Bos troccoeerus, Bos boml A'\, <fec. At the southern foot of the Himalaya Mountains 



abundant remain- of bovine animals are found, mixed with those of the mastodon, elephant, rhi- 

 -, hippopotamus, hog, horse, elk, deer, crocodile, gavial, animals of the canine and feline 

 families, AVc, dVc. 





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TUB KYKIAX OX. 



• [n England the following term- arc applied to cattle of different ages and conditions: a young emasculated male, 



'•/•/-; when a year older, a Stoi or Steer: at five years old, an Ox: a female, after the 

 fear, ia called a Hrifer or Quey; some coarse and sturdy Welsh and Scotch cattle are called Runts. Bullock is 

 the general term for full-grown male cattle, fat or lean. 



