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for 1842 (1843), pp. 57 and 74) to have been made up of bones 

 from several different animals, but chiefly parts of a ruminant 

 closely resembling the Koebuck. It may be that the remains 

 were from the Forest-bed, but the horizon as well as the deter- 

 mination is uncertain, and the specimen has since been destroyed. 

 Capreolus caprea has been recorded from Caves and other 

 Pleistocene deposits (Dawkins, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. 

 XXV., p. 192, 1869) as well as from the Fens and Prehistoric 

 strata. It is now living in the temperate zones of Europe. 



Genus XIPHODON, Cuvier, 



XlPHODON PLATYCEPS, FLOWER. 



The greater part of a skull, said to be from the Red Crag of 

 Suffolk, preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, has been described by Prof. Flower (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, 

 p. 3, Plate i.), and referred provisionally to Cuvier's genus Xipho- 

 don, with the new specific name of X. platyceps. The specimen 

 is about the size of the skull of a small sheep, and is remarkable 

 for " the breadth and flatness of fhe frontal region between the 

 orbits." Unfortunately all the teeth are absent, and its dental 

 characters consequently unknown. 



The exact age of this skull is uncertain, but the matrix appears 

 to approximate most nearly to that of the so-called " box-stones" 

 of the Suffolk Crag. 



Genus HIPPOPOTAMUS, Linnaeus. 

 HIPPOPOTAMUS AMPHIBIUS, 



(= H. MAJOR, OWEN.) 



The remains of Hippopotamus from the Forest-bed were first 

 recorded by S. Woodward (Geology of Norfolk, p. 46, 1833), 

 and a splendid lower jaw was figured and described by Sir R. 

 Owen (Brit. Foss. Mamm., p. 399, 1846). Other specimens from 

 the same horizon have been found at several localities in Norfolk 

 and Suffolk (Vert. Forest Bed, p. 42, 1882), but I have been 

 unable to verify Mr. H. B. Woodward's record from the Norwich 

 Crag. (Geology of Norwich, p. 55, 1881.) 



Since the year 1846 the British fossil Hippopotamus has been 

 generally called H. major, Owen, but most authorities are now 

 agreed that these remains cannot be separated from the Hippo- 

 potamus amphibius, now living in the Nile (Cat. Foss. Mamm. 

 Brit. Mus., Part ii., p. 277, 1885). 



The remains of H. amphibius occur in the Pleistocene deposits 

 of this country as well as in the Forest-bed. The species also 



