892 Hornless Ruminants. Ke t 
Fic. 11. (Figure in bronze.) f 
Rawlinson states that in Egypt “three distinct races of cattle 
were affected, —the long-horn, the short-horn, and the hornless: ; 
Birch (“ Manners and Customs of Ancient Egyptians,” by Sir} 
Gardner Wilkinson, Bart.) says,— | 
“The cattle were of different kinds, of which three principal 
distinctions are most deserving of notice, —the short-homne™ = 
long-horned cattle, and the Indian or humped 0x; the last fe 
though no longer natives of Egypt, are common to this day ® 
Abyssinia and Upper Ethiopia.” 
Fic. 12, (Egyptian monuments.) 
In a foot-note to this he says, “ A hornless variety W35 © i 
i known.” 
Cattle were domesticated in Egypt, according tO he ne e 
~~ as 2000 B.c. Thus we have indication enough 0 wet 
antiquity of polled cattle. The Egyptians, it is SUPP i 
_ of Asiatic origin, and may have brought the progenitors ©” 
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