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WILD WHITE CATTLE. 



English skull of this aiiimaJ. which, in The Field 

 of April 1 8, 1868, illustrated some remarks on its 

 discovery from the pen of Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier. 

 Tliis specimen was found in the hed of the Kibble, 

 below Preston, Lancashire, in the spring of 1867, and 

 passed into the possession of Mr. James Dobson of 

 the Preston Chronicle, who kindly for\A'a.rded it for- 

 examination. 



SKfLL 01' -BOS rlilMIGE.MUS, rU'EsllulK. 



In these and other instances which ha\'e been. 

 recorded, the animals whose I'etnains were found were, 

 in all probability, wild, and not domesticated. In- 

 deed, no discoveries have }'et been made which lead 

 to the supposition that the Urus Avas domesticated in, 

 Britain in pre-historic times ; while Bos longifrons, 

 the " Celtic short-horn," as it has been termed, was 



