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a crown-deer (full-antler'd red deer)/' Rutimeyer 

 calls it the peat cow, and, from specimens found 

 in Swiss late dwellings, describes it thus * : " The 

 race which clearly predominated through the 

 whole Stone Age and was found chiefly, though 

 not exclusively, in the formations which we, upon 

 other grounds, reckon among the oldest in 



BOS LONGIFRONS, FROM BURWELL FEN, CAMBRIDGE. 



[From McKenny Hughes. 



Wangen and Mooseedorf, I may safely call the 

 Peat Race, or the Peat Cow. Its chief character- 

 istic, as shown by its remains, apart meantime 

 from the skull, is the small length and height 

 of its body, and the exceptionally short but 

 remarkably fine and delicate limbs, right from the 

 shoulder to the extreme terminal phalanges, which 

 apparently carried very small hoofs." 



From British and Irish skeletons, Owen 



1 Fauna der Pfahlbauten. 



