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tral form of Cervulus. The members of the present family making 

 the nearest approach to the Giraffidce seem to he the larger species 

 of Palceomeryx like P. sivalemis, whose molars resemble those of 

 Giraffa, and Alces, in which the upper molars are very like those of 

 Vishnutherium. 



Genus CARIACUS, Gray 1 . 

 <artacu3 rufuS (F. Cuvier 2 ). 

 Syn. Cervus ruf us, . Cuvier 3 . 



Coassus rufus, Gray 4 . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



18701. The hinder portion of the cranium of a female ; from a 

 cavern in Minas Geraes, Brazil, This species is doubtfully 

 recorded by H. Gervais and Ameghino in ' Les Mammi- 

 feres fossiles de 1'Amerique meridionale,' p. 125 (1880) 

 from the Pleistocene of Buenos Ayres on the evidence of 

 limb-bones and fragments of the jaws. 



Claussen Collection. Purchased, 1848. 



Genus CAPREOLUS, Hamilton-Smith 5 . 



Caprtolu* capa, Gray 6 . 

 Syn. Cervus capreolus, Linn. 7 



Capreolus fossilis, H. v. Meyer 8 . 



Hab. Europe and Western Asia. 



39369. The frontals and antlers ; from a Prehistoric (?) deposit in 

 Clements Lane, Lombard Street, London. 



Purchased, 1865. 



41479. The calvarium of a young specimen ; from the turbary of 

 Walthamstow, Essex. Purchased, 1869. 



40200. Two frontals and antlers ; from a superficial deposit at 

 Moorfields, London. Purchased, 1867. 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 237. 



2 Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 485 (1817), Cervus. The writer follows Sclater 

 (' List of Animals in Gardens of Zool. Soc.' 1883, p. 174) in placing this species 

 in Cariacus. 



3 Loc. cit. 



* List of Mammalia in British Museum, p. 174 (1843). 



5 In Griffith's ' Animal Kingdom,' vol. v. p. 313 (1827). 



6 List of Mammalia in British Museum, p. 176 (1843), C. capraa. 



7 Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 94 (1766). 

 s Palseologica, p. 94 (1832). 



