44 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Hungarian race, with more spreading horns. The 

 difference is not greater than there is between our 

 Chillingham and Chartley varieties of wild cattle, and 

 the two families, when blended together, produce an 

 extraordinarily good animal. Most of the races of the 

 neighbouring countries have been strongly imbued with 

 the Hungarian blood, in all cases with favourable results, 

 and generally these have a close approximation to the 

 Hungarian colour. A careful perusal of Professor 

 Wrightson's description of the various Styrian breeds, 

 including the Miirzthal, Mariahof, Pinzgau, and Mar- 

 boden races, will show that they are generally good 

 milkers and good feeders, and wonderfully inclined to 

 light colours, but above all to white, often with black 

 points. The Professor measured one noble Mariahof ox, 

 eight years old, whose girth behind the shoulders was 

 8 ft. 9 in., and height at the withers 5 ft. 8 in., and 

 whose girth, he believed, was greater than any lean ox 

 he ever heard of. The Podolian race, which is distri- 

 buted over the greater part of Gralicia, though shorter 

 in stature, much resembles the Hungarian, and " pro- 

 bably resulted from crossing this animal with an ancient 

 race indigenous to Galicia," or it may be more nearly 

 related to the cattle of the steppes. " The colour is 

 generally white or silver-grey, with variations passing 

 into dark grey. Nearly 75 per cent, of the oxen 

 slaughtered at Vienna belong to this race. The meat 

 is very much esteemed, and is distinguished for its 

 tenderness and agreeable flavour." 



But leaving the Hungarian oxen and their congeners, 

 and passing over the Carpathians, in whose deep glens 

 and wild mountain ranges a much smaller cow of the 

 same type, but crossed with other sorts, adapts itself to 



