Ho Hornless Ruminants. gol 
A settler near where I am located has stated to me that polled 
tattle existed in his native country (Bavaria). His grandfather 
and another bred them there. They were the only parties who 
 hadthem in the neighborhood. It was, he said, the habit of re- 
_ ‘Rewing, or alternating, their stock of cattle every few years, and 
-for that purpose his grandfather and his neighbor had resorted 
toa district “near Holland” for specimens of these polled cattle, 
_ Which had some celebrity at that time. The name he gave them 
was hornlose,—simply the same as our horniess. It is interesting 
_ t note that it was the king of Bavaria who presented gold 
_ Medals, through M. Dutrone, to exhibitors at the Highland So- 
i ciety of Scotland, 1856. The reverse of the one gained by the 
7 late Mr. McCombie of Tillyfour states it to have been for the 
“Propagation des Races bovines désarmés, à M. W. MacCom- 
bie de Tillyfour, .Ecosse, Amélioration de la Race d’Aberdeen 
_ pour la laitiere,”” etc. The late Hugh Watson, Keillor, also was 
j Presented with one for his remarkable cow “Grannie,” which 
_ "ised twenty-five calves and died at the age of thirty-six years 
and a half—the greatest age, I believe, recorded to which an 
animal of the bovine species ever attained. 
Oe tn Switzerland —Dr. Ferdinand Keller, in his “ Lake-Dwell- 
ba of Switzerland,” translated by J. E. Lee, 1878, among the 
as identified at Liischerz and MGringen, notes: 
Mt) Bos brachyceros-longifrons, or marsh-cow. Certain remains 
oe lead us to conclude that they belong to the Peat cow, 
: Sa race also probably belonged the half of the occiput 
ae mless individual. The specimen indicates a very small 
4 cain a which the occipital proportions are exceptionally high. 
+. p ms are said to be found in the Norwegian cattle. 
O Bos primigenius.. Remains of this great race seem to have 
= found very sparingly. . 
is (3) Bos Jrontosus, Remains of this race are by far the most 
tom, ONS, on the average; the race was smaller than our spotted 
2 FEN Frontosus belongs more especially to civilization. 
oa to Mr. Bert Pettersen, Norwegian consul at Dundee, . 
While E are very common in the southern parts of Norway» 
„> Yet possessed its characters most completely. The bones — ; E 
~ &Xtremities are smaller than those of the spotted cow are 
4%, etc—They exist in the Scandinavian peninsula. 
= Tomso, within the Arctic Circle, they also exist in con- ‘i oo 
