EXTINCTION OF TEE WILD BULL. 15 



but within much circumscribed limits — principally in 

 Poland, Lithuania, and Muscovy, whose writers speak 

 of it — till in the fifteenth or sixteenth century the wild 

 bull became finally extinct in continental Europe. 



Having thus traced the Bos urus from early his- 

 torical times throughout its European career, with the 

 exception of Britain, I propose in the following chapter 

 to make some remarks upon certain domestic races, its 

 acknowledged or supposed descendants, with the view of 

 ascertaining whether any and what resemblances, espe- 

 cially of colour and character, exist between them and 

 our own White Herds, traditionally believed to be also 

 descended from it. 



