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measurements of these fine cattle when he saw them at 

 the Vienna Exhibition, space forbids me to enter. I 

 may, however, say that after stating that " Naturalists 

 agree in considering the Hungarian ox as the best 

 living representative of one at least of the original 

 progenitors of our domestic type, the Bos primigenius, 

 still existing in a semi-wild state in Chillingham Park," 

 he adds, "I had the opportunity of seeing large numbers 

 of these handsome cattle. They are white, with a 

 shading of grey on the neck, flanks, and buttocks. The 

 ear is dark-shaded inside ; the horns are very long and 

 wide-spreading, and tipped with black ; the muzzle, 

 skin around the eye, the eye itself, and the feet are all 

 black. An eight-year-old ox exhibited by Neumann, of 

 Arad (Catal. No. 941), measured 6 ft. 11 in. between the 

 tips of his horns, and one horn measured 3 ft. 7 in. in 

 length." And yet, " Judges did not consider the 

 Hungarian ox to be well represented at Vienna ; and 

 I," says the Professor, " certainly saw much finer 

 examples while travelling through the country." 



Here, then, partially semi-wild, partially domesti- 

 cated, is the true and unmixed descendant of the Bos 

 urus of the ancients ; barring the slight accident of 

 semi-domestication, his true and lineal representative, 

 his successor in form, in colour, and in type ; inhabiting 

 unchanged the scarcely altered plains and forests where 

 his great ancestor lived thousands of years ago. We 

 may have seemed to wander far, but we have come back 

 to our own subject at last, and we tell our reader, as 

 Professor Wrightson told his, that "he must endeavour 

 to picture the majestic Hungarian ox as a larger type of 

 the wild cattle of Chillingham Park." 



The Transylvanian ox is a mere variety of the 



