480 CERVUS. 
drawings by Colonel Hamilton Smith are representations, 
were found by me some time since during some researches 
made with the Rev. H. F. Lyte in a cavern in the lime- 
rock of Berryhead, Devon. The skull was at a great 
depth below the original floor of the cave, and was lying in 
an aluminous silt, and buried beneath a block of limerock 
many tons in weight, which had no doubt, subsequently to 
the deposit of the skull, fallen from the roof on it. Not 
quite so deeply buried, but adhering to the side of the block 
by a calcareous cement, I found the other bone, the hume-— 
rus. No bones of any kind were associated with them, and 
although the lower jaw and horns of the skull were wanting, 
yet no fragment of bone or organized calcareous matter 
was near or anywhere around: the tooth fell from the 
skull on taking it up. They were in a dry situation, and 
about forty feet perpendicular from the opening of the 
cave, which is situated in the side of a precipitous hill 
about seventy feet above the level of the sea.” 
The fragment of the skull (fig. 198) showed the places 
from which the antlers had been recently shed, and, by their 
proximity to the occipital ridge, determined the identity 
of the fossil with the Cervus tarandus. In the Fallow and 
Red-deer, as in all other recent cervine species correspond- 
ing in size with the fossil, the antlers spring from the 
frontal bones nearer the orbits and further from the occi- 
put. The extinct Cerous Guettardi most resembles the 
Rein-deer in the position of the antlers ; but, besides the 
smaller size of the skull, the antlers rise a little further 
from the occiput. The precise agreement of the fragment 
of the skull, of the molar tooth, and of the humerus, in 
size and form, with those parts in the Rein-deer, verifies 
the inference from the characteristic position of the antlers, 
as to the species to which the fossils belong. 
