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The range of this deer, therefore, to some extent 

 corresponds to that of another described on p. 153. 

 We found then that two races of Reindeer had 

 migrated to the British Islands one from the Arctic 

 Regions, and the other from Siberia, but that only 

 the former had reached Ireland. 



The so-called Irish Elk (Cervus giganteus) has 

 been referred to the Oriental migration, but, as 

 stated below, it has some claims to be regarded 

 as a European. Unfortunately it is now extinct; 

 it seems not unlikely, however, that it inhabited 

 Ireland when man had already made his appear- 

 ance on the island. Although its remains are found 

 in such extraordinary abundance in Ireland, it 

 certainly did not originate there. It lived also 

 in England and Scotland, and in the Isle of Man, 

 in France, Denmark, Germany, Austria, North Italy, 

 and Russia. Its remains have been discovered 

 even in Siberia. It must either have originated 

 in Europe and then migrated to Asia, or have had its 

 birthplace in Asia and wandered to Europe. There 

 is nothing to lead any one to assert positively that 

 either of these two continents was the one in which 

 the original home of the Irish Elk was situated, and 

 we can only be guided in this case by the history of 

 its nearest relatives. These are the Fallow Ueer 

 (Cervus dama). There are two very closely allied 

 species, the Persian and the European, but several 

 others have been discovered in the Forest-Bed and 

 the pliocene deposits of the Auvergne. As no 



