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National Geographic : 1925 Dec
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THE TAURINE WORLD !ii - 4 ___ _ \VI5 Photograph by Charles J. Belden TIlE END OF THE TRAIL In the great stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, and other centers the stockman finds a cash market for his cattle. in the lfercynian forest, and described it as "approaching the elephant in size, but presenting the figure of a bull." Fossil remains indicate a height of six feet at the shoulder. The widely distributed wild Celtic Shorthorn was decidedly smaller than the Urus and had a shorter face, but a longer and broader forehead. In color the Short horns were solid, shading from blackish brown to gray. THE WILD WHITE CATTLE OF TO-DAY Speaking broadly, our larger breeds of cattle are supposedly of Urus origin and the smaller of Celtic Shorthorn deri vation. The nearest kin to the Urus at the pres ent time, according to most authorities, are the so-called Wild White cattle of Great Britain (see Color Plate VI), pre served, as a matter of scientific interest, upon various landed estates, as illustrated by the herds at Chillingham Park, North umberland, the property of the Earl of Tankerville, and at Cadzow Forest, Lan arkshire, Scotland, seat of the Dukes of Hamilton. The lapse of centuries, how ever, has so changed these specimens that they approach their alleged forbears neither in color nor in size. The Lri of the Continent were "com monly black or mouse brown," and this is held to explain the fact that the Wild 005
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