[47] Isid. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, ‘Hist. Nat. Gén.,’ tom. iii. 96.
[49] ‘Quadrupèdes du Paraguay,’ tom. ii. p. 360.
[50] Walther ‘Das Rindvieh,’ 1817, s. 30.
[51] I am much indebted to the present Earl of Tankerville for information about his wild cattle; and for the skull which was sent to Prof. Rütimeyer. The fullest account of the Chillingham cattle is given by Mr. Hindmarsh, together with a letter by the late Lord Tankerville, in ‘Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,’ vol. ii., 1839, p. 274. _See_ Bewick, ‘Quadrupeds,’ 2nd edit., 1791, p. 35, note. With respect to those of the Duke of Queensberry, _see_ Pennant’s ‘Tour in Scotland,’ p. 109. For those of Chartley, _see_ Low’s ‘Domesticated Animals of Britain,’ 1845, p. 238. For those of Gisburne, _see_ Bewick ‘Quadrupeds,’ and ‘Encyclop. of Rural Sports,’ p. 101.
[52] Boethius was born in 1470; ‘Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,’ vol. ii., 1839, p. 281; and vol. iv., 1849, p. 424.
[53] n’Youatt on Cattle,’ 1834, p. 48: _See also_ p. 242, on short-horn cattle. Bell, in his ‘British Quadrupeds,’ p. 423, states that, after long attending to the subject, he has found that white cattle invariably have coloured ears.ote
[54] Azara, ‘Quadrupèdes du Paraguay,’ tom. ii. p. 361. Azara quotes Buffon for the feral cattle of Africa. For Texas _ see_ ‘Times,’ Feb. 18th, 1846.
[55] Anson’s Voyage. _See_ Kerr and Porter’s ‘Collection,’ vol. xii. p. 103.
[56] _See also_ Mr. Mackinnon’s pamphlet on the Falkland Islands, p. 24.
[57] ‘The Age of the Ox, Sheep, Pig,’ etc., by Prof. James Simonds, published by order of the Royal Agricult. Soc.
[58] ‘Ann. Agricult. France,’ April, 1837, as quoted in ‘The Veterinary,’ vol. xii. p. 725. I quote Tessier’s observations from ‘Youatt on Cattle,’ p. 527.
[59] ‘The Veterinary,’ vol. viii. p. 681 and vol. x. p. 268. Low’s ‘Domest. Animals, etc.’ p. 297.
[60] Mr. Ogleby in ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,’ 1836, p. 138, and 1840, p. 4. Quatrefages quotes Philippi (‘Revue des Cours Scientifiques,’ Feb. 12, 1688, p. 657), that the cattle of Piacentino have thirteen dorsal vertebræ and ribs in the place of the ordinary number of twelve.
[61] Leguat’s Voyage, quoted by Vasey in his ‘Delineations of the Ox-tribe,’ p. 132.
[62] ‘Travels in South Africa,’ pp. 317, 336.