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horn-cores at their origin are far behind tlie most prominent part 

 of the forehead. jVEoreover, the horn-cores in this case are flat- 

 tened and curve outwards and Ijackwai-ds as in some Eastern 

 cattle. In their position and direction the horns in this Newstead 

 Ox decidedly differ from the horns (also of the flat type) of a 

 Shetland heifer in my possession, which project almost directly 

 upwards as in some Zebus. 



The horn- cores are, as a rule, circular in section and, in skulls of 

 the Celtic Shorthorn type, curve outwards and forwards nearly 

 at a right angle to the frontals. In other skulls they curve out- 

 wards and upwards, or outAvards and downwards, or outwards, 



