MEGACEROS HIBERNICUS. 44:7 
Megaceros. Alees. 
Ein? In. Lain; Ft. In. Lin. 
Length of the trunk, from the first rib to the ) 6 3 3 > Ae antl 
end of the ischium é vn j 
Height from the ground to the top of Ph POs 0 Bees 1G 
longest dorsal spine . : 
Length of fore leg from: the top of the a) » 70 ny aa 
pula in a straight line é : 
Length of hind leg from the head of the “| ) ee ee 4 10 9 
mur in a straight line 5 : 
Circumference of fourth cervical vertebra. LH Loe 0 ae OF aa 
Span of antlers between the extreme tips. 8 0 90 4 0 0 
The Elk, or Moose, differs, in fact, from the Megaceros 
more than any other species of Cervus, in the greater pro- 
portional length of its limbs,—due chiefly to the peculiar 
length of the cannon-bones (metacarpi and metatarsi). 
The first tolerably perfect skeleton of the M/egaceros was 
found in the Isle of Man, and was presented by the Duke 
of Athol to the Edinburgh Museum ; the figure in the 
‘Ossemens Fossiles, tom. iv. pl. vili. is taken from an en- 
graving of this skeleton transmitted by Professor Jamieson 
to Baron Cuvier. Another skeleton was composed and set 
up by Dr. Hart, in the Museum of the Royal Dublin 
Society, from a collection of bones found at Rathcannon 
in Ireland, and this is figured in his ‘ Description of the 
Skeleton of the Fossil Deer of Ireland. A third en- 
graying of a foreshortened view, by Professor Phillips, 
of the skeleton of the Megaceros, from Waterford, in 
the museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, was 
published, without description, by Mr. Sunter of York ; 
and this exhibits a more natural collocation of the bones, 
than do either of the above-cited figures. Three very 
complete and well-articulated skeletons have since been 
added to English collections; one of these is in the 
British Museum, another in the Woodwardian Museum 
at Cambridge, and a third in the Hunterian Museum 
