CERVUS TARANDUS. 



481 



More recognisable, Fi ff- 198 - 



though perhaps not more 

 decisive, evidence of the 

 Cervus tarandus, is af- 

 forded by the discovery of 

 a fragment of the skull 

 with the antlers attached, 

 beneath a peat -moss in a 

 small moor at East Bil- 

 ney, near East Dereham, 

 in the county of Norfolk. 

 A drawing of these ant- 

 lers, transmitted to me Cranium of Rein-deer, Berry-head Cave, Devon. 



by C. B. Rose, Esq., is engraved in cut 197. The cha- 

 racteristic branched brow-antler, though the terminal forks 

 are broken, measured seven inches and a half in length ; 

 the length of the beam from the burr to the fractured 

 extremity, was thirty -one inches in a straight line ; the 

 breadth of the os frontis at the rise of the horns was 

 three inches. These specimens correspond with that variety 

 of the antlers in the Rein-deer which is represented in figs. 

 13 and 20, pi. iv. torn. iv. of the ' Ossemens Fossiles.' 



A single mutilated antler, retaining thirty-five inches 

 of the beam, with seven inches of the brow-antler, twelve 

 inches of the bezantler, and the commencement of the 

 expansion or palm at the fractured end of the beam, 

 was likewise discovered at the same place. Both these 

 specimens show the smooth subcompressed character of the 

 beam and branches peculiar to the antlers of the Rein-deer 

 amongst the existing species of Cervus. 



The remains of the quadrupeds found in the lacustrine 

 shell-marls of Scotland, according to Mr. Lyell, all belong 

 to species which now inhabit, or are known to have been 



