470 CERVUS. 
represented belonged to the round-antlered section of the 
Cervine genus, (Elaphine group of Col. H. Smith,) and 
to which section the subgeneric name Strongyloceros may 
be applied. The existing species in this group which most 
nearly approaches in size the extinct one indicated by the 
present fossil, is the great Wapiti Deer of Canada (Cervus 
strongyloceros, Schreber, Cervus Canadensis, Brisson); but 
the fossil differs from those antlers of the Wapiti that have 
come under my observation in the greater distance between 
the brow-antler and bezantler. Cuvier, however, figures 
some specimens which resembled the fossil in this respect. 
Such a fragment of an antler as the one from Kent’s 
Hole here described, though it be sufficient to determine 
the great Deer, of which it once formed part, to have been 
not only distinct from the Megaceros, but to have belonged 
to a distinct subdivision of the cervine genus, does not 
permit a satisfactory determination of its specific distine- 
tion from the largest existing species of its own subgenus : 
but, on the other hand, it affords as little ground for as- 
serting its specific identity with them, and, from analogy, 
it is more probable that it was a distinct species, which, 
therefore, I propose to indicate as the Cervus (Strongy- 
loceros) spelaus. 
If the trunk and limbs bore the same proportions to 
the head and antlers as in the Wapiti and Red-deer, as 
most probably they did, the species indicated by this re- 
markable fragment of antler must have been the most 
gigantic of our extinct English Cervine animals. 
The fragment of the lower jaw (fig. 195) indicates 
clearly a Cervine animal with a head larger than that of 
the Megaceros: this fragment shows a depth of jaw of two 
inches and a half below the second true molar, but has 
belonged to an immature animal, which had not shed the 
