488 CERVUS. 



THE ROEBUCK is now confined, in Britain, to the district 

 of Scotland north of the Forth, but numerous remains 

 attest a former distribution of the species as extensive as 

 that of the Red- deer. Dr. Buckland specifies, amongst 

 the cervine remains of the Cave of Paviland, an antler, 

 "approaching to that of the Roe." I have received 

 characteristic remains of the Cervus capreolus from the 

 ossiferous caves in Pembrokeshire, by favour of Charles 

 Stokes Esq. ; and from a fissure of a limestone rock in 

 Caldy Island, off Tenby, Glamorganshire, where the 

 Capreoline antlers were discovered associated with remains 

 of the Rhinoceros tichorMnus, by the Rev. R. Greaves. 

 I have also been favoured with fossil antlers and bones of 

 the Roebuck from the limestone caverns in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Stoke-upon-Trent, by Robert Garner Esq., 

 the author of the History of Staffordshire. 



Almost the entire skeleton of a small Ruminant, agreeing 

 in size and general characters with the female Roe, has 

 been discovered in the lacustrine formation at Bacton, with 

 the remains of the Trogontherium, Mammoth, &c. This 

 specimen is preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. 

 The antlers figured above, the one (fig. 202) of a young 

 Roe of the third year, the other (fig. 203), at the sixth 

 year, were discovered ten feet deep below the fen-land of 

 Cambridgeshire. 



In the collection of British fossils belonging to Mr. Pur- 

 due of Islington, there is an almost entire left ramus of 

 the lower jaw of a small Ruminant, identical in size and 

 conformation with that of the Roebuck (fig. 201). It was 

 found in a lacustrine deposit of marl, with freshwater shells, 

 below the bed of peat, at Newbury in Berkshire, where 

 skulls and antlers of the Roebuck are not uncommon. 



