Wilson — Scandinavian Origin of Hornless Cattle of British Isles. 151 



some of the bulls were lioruless. Fi-om tlie following illustration' of Burg- 

 head bulls, it will be seen at a glance tliat one of tlie bulls is horuloss, and 

 the other is homed. 



Burglicad Bulls. 



From the following illustratiou of a polled Angus o.'c copied from Youatt's 

 book,= it will be seeu liow difficult it would be to determine whether the lines 

 projecting from tlie ox's head are ears or horns, were tliey carved in stone 

 rather than drawn in pen-and-ink. 



Angus Ox. 



The evidence next in chronological order is to be found in a legal 

 document dated 1523, "Instrumentumsasine in favorem Johannis Cumying," 

 in which it is recorded that tlie lands of Culter in Aberdeenshire passed from 

 one man's possession to another by the new owner receiving not the usual 

 token, namely a handful of earth and a stone, but "unum bovem nigrum 



' Copied from " The Sculptured Stones of Scotland," plate xxiii., vol. ii. 

 * "Cattle," 1834, p. 168. 



