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Title: A vertebrate fauna of Lakeland : including Cumberland and Westmorland with Lancashire north of the sands
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Macpherson, H. A. (Hugh Alexander), 1858-1901 Ferguson, Robert S Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Vertebrates
Publisher: Edinburgh : David Douglas
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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he horns in a fairly perfect stateof preservation. Although remains of this ox have not ap-parently been recorded hitherto from Lakeland, there can belittle doubt that it was the common British Ox, at one timefound everywhere. Much greater interest attaches to the remains of Bos primi-genius, the extinct Auroch; and none the less because our 1 Phil. Trans., vol. xxxvii. p. 257- 2 I am indebted to Mr. Joseph Leavers, the governor of H.M. Prison,Carlisle, for this specimen. THE EXTINCT MAMMALS OF LAKELAND liii text-books have hitherto overlooked the former presence of thisanimal in Lakeland. The earliest notice of a find of theremains of this animal occurs in the account of the parish ofAsby, Westmorland, furnished by Nicolson and Burn. Theystate : In digging of peats within this manor, nigh the east endof Sunbiggin Tarn, about 40 years ago (say in 1737), were foundthe horns of two large bulls, jumped together in the positionof fighting, one of them probably having pushed the other into
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The Auroch (the Howgill Castle Ox). the mud, where they had both sunk. The rest of the skeletonscould not be recovered by reason of the water oozing in. Onepair of these horns was carried to Howgill Castle, where theyare yet to be seen.1 The Rev. J. Wharton showed me someremains of the horns of an Ox obtained in Sunbiggin Tarn, with Antiquities and History of Westmorland and Cumberland, vol. i. p. 512. liv PROLEGOMENA the assurance that such bovine fragments have been found thereon several occasions. The head sent to Howgill Castle hangs inthe hall of the house to this day. The last time that I saw it,Mr. Thorpe had most kindly accompanied me, for the expresspurpose of obtaining some photographs of this head. He wasmuch impressed by the fine sweep which the horns of this oldbull possess. The lower jaws are unfortunately missing. Weshould probably refer to the Auroch the skulls of two otherOxen, discovered within the limits of the English Solway. Inexcavating on Burgh marsh/ says a loc

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