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Savin's specimen, figured by Professor Boyd Dawkins on Pluto 

 iii., fig. 1. Cervus Fitchii is only known from the Forest-bed 

 of Norfolk. 



CERVUS GIGANTEUS ? BLUMENBACH. 

 (=C. MEGACEROS, HART.) 



(Irish Elk.) 

 PLATE IV., FIG. 11. 



The beam of a large antler from the Red Crag of Suffolk was 

 figured and thus described by Sir R. Owen (Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc., Vol. XIL, p. 226, fig. *18, 1856) as Megaceros hibernicus. 

 " In the relative size and position, immediately above the burr, of 

 the origin of the brow-snag, in the absence of a second snag 

 at the distance above the brow-snag where such second gnag 

 arises in the Strongyloceros spelceus, in the commencing flatness 

 of one side, and expansion of the beam at the broken end 

 11 inches from the burr, this Crag fossil resembles the cor- 

 responding part of the antler of the great Irish Deer (Mega- 

 ceros hibernicus). The circumference of the burr is 11 inches. 

 In colour and ponderosity this remarkable fossil agrees with the 

 ordinary fossils of the Red Crag." 



I have been unable to discover this antler (see Plate IV., 

 fig. 11), and therefore can only give it on Sir R. Owen's autho- 

 rity. The figure and description certainly agree very well with 

 the stem of the Irish Elk's antler ; but it seems doubtful whether 

 it really belonged to this species. 



The occurrence of C. giganteus in the Norfolk Forest- bed 

 (Vert. Forest Bed, p. 58, 1882) is so very doubtful that it has been 

 decided no longer to include it in the fauna of that horizon. 

 In Pleistocene deposits it has been found at many localities in 

 Western Europe, as well as in England and in the bogs of Ireland. 

 M. Deperet quotes this species from the Pliocene of Saint Prest. 

 (Vert. Plioc. d'Europe, Ann. Sci. Geol., Vol. XVIL, p. 261, 1885). 



CERVUS POLIGNACUS, ROBERT. 

 PLATE IV., FIG. 12. 



The only British specimens which can be referred to this 

 species have been obtained from the Forest-bed of Norfolk, 

 and possibly Suffolk (Falconer, Pal. Mem., Vol. II., p. 47-9, 

 1868; Newton, Vert. Forest Bed, p. 59, 1882). The specimen 

 here figured is in the Gunn collection in the Norwich Museum. 



