472 



CERVUS 



RUMfNANTIA. 



CERVUS. 



Fig. 196. 



Fossil antler of Red Deer. Alluvium, Ireland. 



CERVUS (STRONGYLOCEROS) ELAPHUS. 

 Red-deer. 



Cerf 'semblable an, cerf ordinaire, CUVIER, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1823, torn. 



Elaphusfossilis, 

 Fossil Stag and Deer, 

 Red Deer, Cervus Elaphus, 



p. 98. 



H. V. MEYER, Palaeologica, 8vo. 1832, p. 91. 

 BUCKLAND, Reliquiae Diluvianae, passim. 

 OWEN, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 



236. 



THE most common fossil remains of the Deer-tribe are 

 those which cannot be satisfactorily distinguished from the 

 same parts in the species Cervus Elaphus, which most 

 abounded in the forests of England until the sixteenth cen- 

 tury, and which still enjoys a kind of wild life, by virtue of 

 strict protecting laws, in the mountains of Scotland. 



The oldest stratum in Britain yielding evidence of a 



