784 Derivation of the Domestic Polled Breeds. 
west of it in a division which may well be called the Central Phil- 
ippines. Bojol and Cebu have large amounts of limestone rock 
thrown up in steep ridges, and this has probably caused their great 
richness in land shells, of which each valley seems to possess a spe- 
cies. The shallow strait between these islands is rich in sea life, 
and a week spent in the little island of Waiming produced a fine 
collection of corals, echinoderms and sea shells. Crinoids were 
abundant in the shallow water, and of several species; they were 
usually partly protected among the branches of living corals, but 
sometimes fastened, mouth upward, to stones and coral masses. An 
immense spiny star-fish was slowly crawling over the coral stems, 
digesting the polyps as he went, and leaving a broad white track 
of dead coral behind him. Returning to Cebu, we packed our col- 
lections, and left them to be forwarded by sailing ship to New 
York, and took passage on the last of March for Saman and Leite, 
the most eastern islands of the group. 
THE DERIVATION OF THE DOMESTIC POLLED 
~ BREEDS. 
BY R. C. AULD, F. Z. 8. 
(Continued from page 509.) 
n lere part had these polled cattle of the parks in the origm of 
the existing domestic breeds of Britain, now so numerous!y 
represented in this country? Instances have been enumerated x 
the existence in widely scattered places of polled cattle of vario 
descriptions. Out of all these did any survive and become pn 
gated more into certain localities, and thence evolved into pages 
and distinct breeds? The connection of the park cattle with “af 
breeds of polled cattle in their former and present state will here be 
traced. eae 
Sir Richard Owen, in advocating his theory as to ha s 
British cattle, which is at variance with that of Da ae 
Nilson, Riitimeyer, etc., says: “ Had the Bos primgenws yee 5 
same we might have expected the Highland and Welsh ca tors 
have retained some of the characteristics of their great prose” 
