STRONGYLOCEROS SPELvEUS. 



RUMINANTIA. 



Fig. 193. 



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CERVUS. 



Fig. 194. 



Strongyloceros spelaeus, Kent's Hole, Megaceros, shell-marl, ^ nat size. 

 3- nat. size. 



STRONGYLOCEROS SPELAEUS. Gigantic Round- 

 antlered Deer. 



THE base of an antler, equalling in dimensions that of the 

 largest Megaceros, has been found fossil and partly gnawed 

 by Hyaenas, in the cavern of Kent's Hole near Torquay. 

 This fragment (fig. 193), fifteen inches in circumference, 

 differs from the antler of the Megaceros (fig. 194) in send- 

 ing off the bezantler (bz) at a shorter distance from the 

 brow-antler (5f), and in the beam diminishing in size and 

 preserving the cylindrical figure above the origin of the 

 bezantler, by which it may be inferred that the species so 



