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THE OX AND ITS KINDRED 
the depth of the body, and at the same time causing 
the front and hind limbs to be a great deal too close 
together. The beard, too, is quite unlike that of a 
living bison, thus affording further evidence in favour 
of the figure having been drawn from a stuffed 
specimen. Then, again, the heads of both animals 
apparently indicate that in each case the skull 
without the lower jaw had been sewn in the wet 
skin, thus giving rise to that underhung " appear- 
ance which is speedily noticeable in the case of the 
bison. There is likewise a crack in the skin between 
the horns, which is alone practically sufficient to 
prove that the figure of the bison was taken from a 
stuffed specimen. In the case of the aurochs, in 
addition to the piece inserted in the shoulder, the 
chief defect is the incorrect curvature of the horns, as 
compared with those in an old representation of the 
aurochs from Vaphio and those of fossil skulls, to 
say nothing of those of allied breeds of domesticated 
oxen. Whether this incorrect curvature be due to 
bad drawing or to bad mounting is not easy to say, 
although the existence of a similar error in the 
case of the bison is in favour of the former 
alternative. 
The horns of the aurochs are, however, represented 
in Herberstein's figure as being wholly black, whereas it 
is known from the evidence of a fossil horn discovered 
some years ago in the peat of Pomerania that, as in 
the Chillingham, Pembroke, and Spanish cattle, they 
were really " horn-coloured " with black tips. Both 
pictures accordingly seem to show the animals, not as 
in life, but as they were mounted in Herberstein's 
collection. The portrait of the aurochs is extremely 
valuable, more especially the one (herewith repro- 
