CERVUS TARANDUS. 48] 
More recognisable, — Fig. 198. 
though perhaps not more 
decisive, evidence of the 
Cervus tarandus, is af- 
forded by the discovery of 
a fragment of the skull 
with the antlers attached, 
beneath a peat-moss in a 
small moor at East Bil- 
ney, near Kast Dereham, 
in the county of Norfolk. 
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A drawing of these ant- 
lers, transmitted to me Cranium of Rein-deer, Berry-head Cave, Devon. 
by C. B. Rose, Esq., is engraved in cut 197. The cha- 
racteristic branched brow-antler, though the terminal forks 
are broken, measured seven inches and a half in length ; 
the length of the beam from the burr to the fractured 
extremity, was thirty-one inches in a straight line; the 
breadth of the os frontis at the rise of the horns was 
three inches. These specimens correspond with that variety 
of the antlers in the Rein-deer which is represented in figs. 
13 and 20, pl. iv. tom. iv. of the ‘ Ossemens Fossiles.’ 
A single mutilated antler, retaining thirty-five inches 
of the beam, with seven inches of the brow-antler, twelve 
inches of the bezantler, and the commencement of the 
expansion or palm at the fractured end of the beam, 
was likewise discovered at the same place. Both these 
specimens show the smooth subcompressed character of the 
beam and branches peculiar to the antlers of the Rein-deer 
amongst the existing species of Cervus. 
The remains of the quadrupeds found in the lacustrine 
shell-marls of Scotland, according to Mr. Lyell, all belong 
to species which now inhabit, or are known to have been 
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