Species of Bovine Animals. 



6429 



Lithuanian ox (No. 1084 of Museum Catalogue). Absolutely similar 

 in flexure to B. primogenius. White with black tips ; 28 inches long, 



12 inches in girth, and 88 inches from tip to tip. 



Transylvanian ox (No. 1087). Colour black ; 3 feet long, and 



13 inches round at base. 



Italian ox (No. 1088). Mottled white, dark-tipped ; 37 inches long, 

 13 inches round at base. 



Remarkable pair brought from America (No. 1091). Slender and 

 curved as in the more ancient type of B. primogenius ; 49 inches long, 

 12 inches round at base, and from tip to tip — following the curvature 

 outside, and including forehead — 10 feet 4 inches. 



From a note supplied by Mr. John Stanislaus Bell, who resided some 

 time in the interior of Circassia, we cite that " there were no cattle of a 

 humped breed, nor any w T ith coats so shaggy as those of our Highlands. 

 The only remark I recollect to have made was, that there had been 

 much mixture of Highland and Lowland breeds, from the low stature 

 and short and slightly curved horns of some, and large ponderous 

 frame and huge curved horns of others; while the colours of all seem 

 to embrace all the varieties we have in our island." 



Colonel C. H. Smith remarks, that " the breeds of the Kirghiz and 

 Kalmuk Tartars, those of Podolia and the Ukraine, of European 

 Turkey, of Hungary, and of the Roman States, are amongst the 

 largest known. They are nearly all distinguished by ample horns 

 spreading sideways, then forwards and upwards, with dark points ; 

 their colour [that of the horns] is a bluish ash passing to black. That 

 in the Papal dominions is not found represented in the ancient bas- 

 reliefs of Rome, but was introduced most probably by the Goths, or at 

 the same time with the buffalo.* 



With this quotation we terminate our somewhat rapid notice of the 

 European type of taurines. 



(To be continued.) 



Reason and Instinct. By the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, M.A. 



In the part of the inquiry on which we are now about to enter, a 

 degree of intricacy is noticeable at the outset, which may throw sen- 

 sible obstacles in the way of our arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. 



* We have elsewhere met with the statement that buffalos were introduced into 

 Italy by the Lombards in the sixth century. 



