6 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
for military display. Finally there was an adult bull 
Bison who escaped more that once from his paddock in 
search of Bovine Society, and on one occasion when 
hurdled in by the margin of the big lake or dam in 
Knowsley Park, boldly swam across to the cattle on the 
other side some half mile distant. 
One other Bovine I must mention, the Anoa depresst- 
corns, of the Celebes, very rare, and the smallest Buffalo 
known. 'Thisisnow in the Liverpool Museum. On one 
occasion, shut up together in a small shed, he and I had 
a trial of strength. I did my best and got safely away, 
but I don’t think he did his worst: for he was very short 
and very strong; and his horns short and sharp, and he 
was merciful, and here I am. A second species closely 
allied to this has lately been made known from the 
neighbourhood of New Guinea. 
Several races of Goats and Sheep were also bred at 
Knowsley including nearly a score of Cashmere Goats 
with long white silky hair (examples presented by the 
Queen) and half a score of Andalusian Sheep: some 
Dwarf Merinos, and a small flock of Demerara Sheep 
remarkable for their scraggy build and short hair instead of 
wool. But the beast | remember most was a short-legged 
ram with long spiral horns, who entertained views of his 
own as to my right of way across his bit of pasture ground. 
At first he showed a retiring disposition, and backed and 
backed some distance but suddenly made up for it by a 
rapid rush to the front, his horns catching me below the 
knees and bringing me most suddenly to grief. I ought 
to have known better and shown more tactical skill, for I 
once saw the great big burly blacksmith six feet high 
three times brought to his knees by an insignificant mite 
of a ram from whom he was trying, but in vain, to escape 
amongst a series of Pheasant cases with narrow lanes 
