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last deciduous molar, a m, nor had fully acquired the second 

 true molar, m 2. Sufficient of the crown of this tooth has 

 risen above the gum to show that it had not the accessory 

 column at the base of the outer interspace of the two lobes, 

 as in the Megaceros and the large Bovine Ruminants ; but 

 that it resembled the Wapiti and Red-deer, both in the 

 absence of that column, and in its presence in the first true 

 molar, m 1. The last deciduous molar shows the same 

 large proportional size of the third lobe, which charac- 

 terises this tooth in all Ruminants, and distinguishes 

 it from the last true molars. I conclude, therefore, that 

 this fragment, which is also from Kent's Hole, and has 

 apparently been fractured by the teeth of Hyaenas, be- 

 longed to another individual of the same great species of 

 Round-antlered Deer, to which I have referred the base 

 of the antler above described. 



Whether this species be identical with the fossil Cervus 

 giganteus of M. Robert, which he distinguishes from the 

 Cervus Hibernus, and discovered associated with the Hyaena 

 and Mammoth in the ferruginous beds at Cussac, Haute 

 Loire, I am unable to say. 



Fig. 195. 



Fragment of under jaw, J nat. size. (Strongyloceros spelaeus ?) Kent's Hole. 



