350 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
The Wild White Cattle of Great Britain: an Account of their 
Origin, History, and Present State. By the late Rev. 
Joun Srorrer, M.A., of Hellidon, Northamptonshire. 
Edited by his Son, Joun Srorrer. 8vo, pp. 378. 
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin. 1879. 
ConsIDERING the antiquity of the race of Wild White Cattle, 
a few herds of which still survive in England and Scotland, 
and the interest which attaches to their origin and history, it 
is somewhat surprising that, until the appearance of the present 
volume, nothing like a complete account of them had been 
published. 
It is true that various allusions to the primitive race 
of wild cattle in the British Islands may be found in the 
works of the older historians, as FitzStephen, Hector Boece, 
Leslie, and Sibbald; the question of their origin and affinities 
has furnished a theme for several eminent paleontologists, as 
Professors Nilsson and Riitemeyer, Sir Charles Lyell, Dr. J. A. 
Smith, and Prof. Boyd Dawkins; while accounts of particular 
herds may be found in the works of various antiquarians and 
county historians, amongst whom we find such well-known 
names as Leland, Erdeswick, Leigh, Raine, and Whittaker. Nor 
have naturalists at various times omitted to notice them, as 
testified by the works of Pennant, Bewick, Bell, and Mr. Darwin. 
But the earlier references, generally speaking, are vague and 
unsatisfactory, chiefly because founded upon hearsay evidence; 
while the later accounts, although in many cases extremely 
valuable, are more or less fragmentary and incomplete in their 
nature, necessitating careful consideration and comparison 
before one can proceed to generalize from them. 
It devolved upon the late Mr. Storrer, from these and other 
sources, to collect and arrange all such information concerning 
wild cattle in Great Britain as seemed to him reliable and trust- 
worthy, and the result is now given to the world in the book 
before us. 
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