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RUMINANTIA. 



BOVID^. 



BOVID^. 



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Genus Bos (LiniiEeus). 



Generic Character. — Horns hollow, persistent, growing on a bony core, 

 conical and curved. Body tliick and heavy. Tail long, terminated by a 

 tuft of lonff hair. Teats four. 



WILD WHITE CATTLE. 

 Bos taurus (Linn.). Var. Scoticus. 



Character of Variety. — Colour white, the ears tipped either with red or 

 black ; forehead flat, occipital ridge straight ; horns moderate, lyrate, white 

 with black tips. 



Bos taurus, LiNNiEus, Syst. Nat. I. 98. 



Urtis scoticus, Ham. Smith, in Griffith's An. Kingd. IV. 411. 



Bos scoticus, SwAiNSON, Quad. 2S5. 



That the White Cattle, preserved in a half-wild state 

 in a few parks in Scotland and England, are identical 

 in species with our domestic Oxen is now universally 



