ISLAND CATTLE 
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at 35,000. The so-called Franqueiro cattle of Brazil 
are referred to in the next chapter. 
Introduced cattle have run wild in the Galapagos, 
Philippine, and Sandwich Islands, in Celebes, and also 
in Australia and New Zealand.^ Dr. von Lendenfeld, 
as quoted by Brehm, states that he found the cattle 
in the mountains of New Zealand so wild that it 
was almost impossible to get within shooting range ; 
in colour they were brown (? red) and white. In 
Tasmania, according to Darwin,^ most of the cattle 
first introduced were of the humped breed, but these 
were subsequently more or less completely eliminated 
by the introduction of ordinary humpless cattle from 
Europe. Colonel Przewalski ^ has stated that wild 
cattle also occur in the heart of central Asia, but 
whether these are humped or humpless, or whether 
they have any yak-blood, is not apparent. 
Before leaving this part of the subject, it may be 
mentioned that the old introduced breed of Texas 
was remarkable for the length of the horns. A skull 
in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, measures 4^ 
feet across the horn-cores, while the horns themselves 
have a tip-to-tip interval of 7 feet. The old Texas 
breed is fast disappearing, owing to the introduction 
of shorthorns and other more profitable types. 
Before leaving ordinary cattle reference may be 
made to the relative value of the milk of cows as com- 
pared with buffalo-milk. Professor G. Magini, who 
has made analyses of both, finds that the advantage, 
so far as nutritive qualities are concerned, is largely 
on the side of the buffalo. The results of the in- 
vestigation are published in the AtU della Reale 
^ Brehm, op, cit. p. 304. 2 Qp^ g-,^ 
^ Brehm, loc. cit. 
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