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PALEONTOLOGY 



tive size of the antlers, from the complex brow-snag, and the 

 terminal expansion of the beam, that we have in the rein-deer 

 the nearest of kin to the extinct Megaccros. 



The existing species (Tarandus) is restricted to northern 

 latitudes, ranging to extreme ones in Europe, and in America 

 from the Arctic Circle southward to the latitude of Newfound- 

 land, where the large variety called " Carabou" still exists. 

 Eein-deer of similar size, ranged over continental Europe, appear 

 to have been seen by Cresar in Germany, and have left good 



Fig. 126. 

 Skull and antlers of Cervus Tarandits. 



evidence of their existence in many parts of England. The 

 specimen figured (fig. 126) was found in pleistocene "till" at 

 Bilney Moor, East Dereham. 



A large deer, with subcompressed ramified antlers, slight lv 

 expanding at the base of the terminal divisions, but differing 



