raat 
ae that ey were “stumpy-horned,’ and Hippocrates that prt were 
? Taci less, therefore resembling the small German cattle, o! ¥ hich 
inces bordering the Genesa Sea.” 
_ Headley, mentioned later, but hardly in Hehn. He also notes 
_ Faces of cattle with them into the districts in which they $è led 
+ an aap reserved by Prince Lichtenstein on his estates. Some 
898 Hornless Ruminants. a 
exist in France, and about Penaranda, in Spain, from which they 
may have been transported to form the polled breed of Assump- 
tion, in Paraguay. They also are common in Madagascar and 
Abyssinia.” 4 
Froude, the historian, in his essay on Martin Luther, 1883, ia d 
relating the memorable appearance of the reformer at the Diet 
of Worms, where “he gave his answers” first in Latin and then 
in German, Eck requiring of him a plain answer, “yes or no 
without horns.” The taunt roused him, and he replied, “I will 
give you an answer which has neither horns nor teeth.” This 
passage may be taken as evidence of the knowledge or presenc _ 
of polled animals in Germany in those times. 1 
The polled cattle of Germany are extinct. H. von Nathusius, 
in reply to my inquiry, says, — f : 
“We havé no polled cattle in Germany, but I remember them l 
in Norway, and I think they are found also in the Russian pro 
Victor Hehn, in a lately published work of great erudition! 
heads his chapter on “ cattle,” “ The Buffalo,”—certainly a rathet 
antiquated view, which might be excused in sucha writer 8- 
the disappearance of the German polled cattle: 
“The Bos family was the first friend of man when emerging 
acitus writes that they lacked ‘the glory of the brow. 
a 
x in Austria —In Austria there is a well-known wien a 
polled cattle, It has been known from time immemori@, * 
ies Wanderings of Plants and Animals from their First Hom . 
