The evolution of British cattle and the fashioning of breeds . BOS LONGIFRONS, FROM SWEDEN. [From Nilsson, the pre-Roman inhabitants, for no other kind wasbrought into the country previous to the RomanInvasion. Cattle could only have been importedfrom the opposite shores of France and Belgium,and there they belonged to the self-same longifrons is the native breed with whichwe must start in all our speculations as to theorigin and development of British oxen. TheRomans found that breed here and no other. * Ibid., p. 261, and Encyc. Brit, v. 245. * McKenny Hughes, op. cit. 18 EVOLUTION
The evolution of British cattle and the fashioning of breeds . BOS LONGIFRONS, FROM SWEDEN. [From Nilsson, the pre-Roman inhabitants, for no other kind wasbrought into the country previous to the RomanInvasion. Cattle could only have been importedfrom the opposite shores of France and Belgium,and there they belonged to the self-same longifrons is the native breed with whichwe must start in all our speculations as to theorigin and development of British oxen. TheRomans found that breed here and no other. * Ibid., p. 261, and Encyc. Brit, v. 245. * McKenny Hughes, op. cit. 18 EVOLUTION OF BRITISH CATTLE Bos longifrons has been reconstructed againand again from his resurrected skeleton. FromSwedish skeletons Nilsson describes him thus ^:This is the smallest of all the ox tribe whichlived in a wild state in our portion of the judge from the skeleton, it was 5 feet 4 inches. BOS LONGIFRONS—FROM SWITZERLAND. From RiUimeyer. long from the nape to the end of the rump bone,the head about 1 foot 4 inches, so that the wholelength must have been 6 feet 8 inches. Fromthe slender make of its bones, its body mustrather have resembled a deer than our commontame ox; its legs at the extremities are certainlysomewhat shorter and also thinner than those of Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. iv. secondseries, 1849, P- 352. BOS LONGIFRONS 19 a crown-deer (full-antlerd red deer). RUtimeyercalls it the peat cow, and, from specimens foundin Swiss late dwellings, describes it thus *: Therace which clearly predominated through thewhole Stone Age and was found chiefly, thoughnot exclusively, in the formations which we, uponother grounds, reckon among the oldest m
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