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sentation of a bull without mane, but rather rugged, with a 

 large head, thick neck, small dewlap'entirely sooty black, 

 the chin alone white, and the horns turning forward and 

 then upward like the bull of Romania ; pale in colour, with 

 black tips. In the corner were the remains of armorial 

 bearings, and the word Thur in golden German characters 

 nearly effaced. We made a sketch of the figure*. 



The White Urus (Urus Scoticus) is a wild breed of 

 the Ox, the probable remains of the genuine Urus. It is 

 of small size, and ranged formerly through the woods of 

 Southern Scotland and the north of England. When this 

 breed was exterminated from the open forests is unknown ; 

 but some time before the reformation, the remnants were 

 already confined in parks belonging to ecclesiastical esta- 

 blishments, from whence they were transferred at the disso- 

 lution to that of Drumlarig, and other places. Those in 

 the park of Burton Constable were all destroyed in the 

 middle of the last century by a distemper. The race is 

 entirely of a white colour ; the muzzle invariably black ; 

 the inside of the ear and about one-third part of the outside, 

 from the tip downwards, red ; the horns are white with 

 black tips of a fine texture, and, as in the fossil skull, bent 

 downwards. Bulls weigh from thirty-five to forty-five stone, 

 and cows from twenty-fife to thirty-five, fourteen pounds 

 to the stone. Before they were kept in parks, they were 

 probably larger and more rugged ; old bulls still acquire a 

 kind of mane about two inches long, and their throat and 

 breast is covered with coarser hair. Those at Burton Con- 

 stable differed from the others, they having the ears and 

 tips of the tail black. 



Their manners differ from domestic oxen, and may be in 

 part those of the ancient Urus. Upon perceiving a stranger 



* This figure agrees with that on the stone of Clunia with a Cel- 

 tiberian inscription, and representing a hunter facing a wild bull. 



