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Professor Jukes,* that in a cutting through a bog at 

 Kiltiernan, near Dublin, in a layer of mud and vege- 

 table matter, covered by sand, and again by peat, two 

 heads of reindeer, with perfect horns, were found, 

 together with heads and antlers of thirty elks (Megaceros 

 Hib.); and in a note Professor Jukes adds, "I believe 

 these horns were more like those of the Caribou (Cerf 

 bceuf) of North America than those of the Lapland 

 Reindeer." 



The latitudes which the reindeer frequents in the 

 Old World at the present day, viz., in Europe, from 

 Southern Scandinavia to the Isle of Spitzbergen, and in 

 Asia, throughout Siberia and Kamtschatka, are with the 

 exception of the Caucasian range before alluded to 

 much higher than those occupied by the North American 

 variety, which inhabits the tract of country lying be- 

 tween the southern shores of Hudson's Bay and the 

 frontiers of Maine, extending westwards as far as 

 the northern shore of Lake Superior; and it is a known 

 fact that in both continents they increase in size as 

 they are found further north; yet the Caribou exceeds 

 in dimensions the largest Asiatic specimens. A mature 

 male weighs, when gralloched, full SOOlbs, and measures 

 upwards of six feet in length, standing also about ten 



* Jour. Geo. Soc. Dub. 



