472 CERVUS. 
RUMINANTIA., CERVUS. 
Fig. 196. 
Fossil antler of Red Deer. Alluvium, Ireland. 
CERVUS (STRONGYLOCEROS) ELAPHUS. 
Red-deer. 
Cerf semblable au cerf ordinaire, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1823, tom. 
p. 98. 
Elaphus fossilis, H. V. Meyer, Paleologica, 8yo. 1832, p. 91. 
Fossil Stag and Deer, Buckianp, Reliquie Diluviane, passim. 
Red Deer, Cervus Elaphus, Owen, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 
236. 
Tue most common fossil remains of the Deer-tribe are 
those which cannot be satisfactorily distinguished from the 
same parts in the species Cervus Hlaphus, which most 
abounded in the forests of England until the sixteenth cen- 
tury, and which still enjoys a kind of wild life, by virtue of 
strict protecting laws, in the mountains of Scotland. 
The oldest stratum in Britain yielding evidence of a 
