30 MAMMALIA. 



The species was fii^t described from specimens found in the 

 Pliocene of central France. 



CERVUS RECTUS, NEWTON. 

 PLATE IV., FIG. 1. 



The frontal bone and base of an antler of a small Deer from the 

 Forest-bed of Sidestrand has been described as a new species 

 (Geol. Mag., Dec. 3, Vol. VI, p.^145, Plate v., fig. 1, 1889), and 

 named as above. The species is characterised by the narrow 

 forehead, long pedicle, with angular ridges running down the 

 frontal bone, and simple upright antler, which, so far as preserved, 

 is devoid of tynes. It is quite likely that this is a first antler, 

 and that the adult form would be different ; but I know no recent 

 or fossil species to which it can be referred. Messrs. Woodward 

 and Sherborn (Cat. Brit. Foss. Mamm., p. 327) place this species as 

 a synonym of Capreolus caprea ; but this I regard as an error, 

 the two forms being quite unlike when the actual specimens are 

 compared. 



The type is in the collection of Mr. A. Savin, of Cromer. 



CERVUS SAVINI, DAWKINS. 



Among the antlers from the Forest Bed Series certain forms 

 had long since attracted the attention of Mr. J. Gunn on account of 

 the remarkable form of the brow-tyne, which, arising directly 

 above, or even touching, the burr, was seen to be strikingly 

 flattened, and the most perfect example of this tyne is the most 

 flattened, and the broadest at its distal extremity. No specimens 

 have yet been found with a perfect brow-tyne, and therefore it is 

 not known how it terminated. This peculiar flattening led Mr. 

 Gunn to think the antler was related to the Reindeer, and he 

 has figured a fragment in his unpublished plates. 



More perfect specimens have now been found and worked out 

 by Prof. Boyd Dawkins, who has named the species after Mr. A. 

 Savin, of Cromer, the possessor of the most perfect antler of this 

 form yet discovered (Proc. Koy. Soc., Vol. XXXVIII., p. 345, 

 1885, and Pal. Soc. for 1886, p. 11, Plate iii., fig. 3, 1887). Dr. 

 Crowfoot, of Beccles, however, has a very fine frontal with a good 

 part of both antlers attached ; and portions of similar antlers are 

 to be found in all collections of Forest-bed Mammals. 



Mr. Savin's specimen exhibits the peculiar flattening of the base 

 of the brow-tyne ; but, unfortunately, Prof. Boyd Dawkins' figure 

 (Plate III., fig. 3) does not show this satisfactorily, which is 

 the more to be regretted, because it gives a wrong idea of the 

 form of the tyne, which could scarcely have terminated in the 



