128 THE OX AND ITS KINDRED 
cattle Professor Hughes figures the skulls of a 
Piedmont and a Chillingham bull in the collection 
of the British Museum, and states that if compared, 
" we shall find them to be almost identical." This 
statement, as already pointed out in an earlier 
chapter, is quite indefensible ; and it may be again 
mentioned that the two figures have been transposed.^ 
Whereas in the Chillingham bull the forehead is fiat 
and broad, and the rather long horns are slender, 
delicate, and directed upwards and forwards, in the 
Piedmontese animal (of which the entire skeleton is 
shown on Plate I of the present volume) the fore- 
head is narrower and somewhat convex, the short 
horns are coarse and stubby in character, and are 
directed upwards nearly in the plane of the forehead 
with a somewhat outward curvature, and a backward 
direction of the tips, which are, however, partially 
worn. In fact, it would be difficult to find two much 
more divergent types among the cattle of western and 
southern Europe. In the form of the forehead and 
horns the Piedmontese breed shows, indeed, strong 
signs of affinity with humped cattle. 
The aforesaid Podolian and Hungarian cattle, 
which range through Hungary into Turkey and 
south-western Asia, are represented by two strains, 
the one characteristic of Hungary, and the other of 
Transylvania. In both types the bulls have the 
general pale drab colour of the short coat relieved by 
blackish rings round the eyes, as well as by black 
markings on the muzzle, dewlap, and certain other 
parts of the head and body, and the black tail-tuft ; 
^ Mr. Hedger Wallace in the paper above cited has repeated Professor 
Hughes's error. 
