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and especially as regards the size of the antlers. In the 

 Moose, the span of tlie antlers between the extreme tips is 

 four feet ; in the extinct Irish species, it is eight feet, and 

 the vertebrae of the neck are proportionally larger, so as to 

 bear the weight of the head and its massive appendages. The 

 name of Irish Elk is objectionable, as the animal was not an 

 Elk but allied to the Fallow Deer ; and also as the remains 

 are not peculiar to Ireland. They have been met with both 

 in the Isle of ^lan and in England. In the latter country they 

 are found associated with the fossil remains of a Mammoth, 



Fig. 317 Giraffe. 



