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hot weather in order to escape in some degree from 
the torments of flies ; and the cows doubtless brought 
forth their young — generally one at a birth — in the 
more secluded parts of the forest, where they would 
be well concealed among the bracken and other covert, 
just in the same way as do those of the modern 
white Chillingham park-cattle. 
P.S. — Since the above was in type an article by 
Mr. K. V. d. Malsburg^ on a dwarf form of aurochs 
from the superficial formations of Belgium has been 
received. This race, for which the name B. {urus) 
minutus is proposed, was contemporary with the 
mammoth, and is regarded as the intermediate form 
between the typical aurochs and many of the breeds 
of domesticated cattle. 
^ Bull. Inter ttat. Ac. Set. Cracovie, 191 1, pp. 340-348. 
