of Deer from the Norfolk Forest-Bed. 3 



Specimen j^ ^„,^ieh 

 figured. M^^i,,,,. 



inches. inches. 



Extreme length 19^ 21 



Circumference in centre of beam 7i 8|- 



Length from burr to commencement of palma- 



tion 12 16 



Length from midfrontal suture along curve to 



end of first tine 37 



Associated in tlie Forest-bed with Cervus latifi-ons there are 

 found several other species of Cervidas, which it may be 

 interesting to mention. Of these some are peculiar to the 

 Forest-bed, while others are common to the Forest-bed and 

 other deposits of Pleistocene and Pliocene age both in England 

 and on the continent. The following is a list of the species 

 that have as yet been clearly determined : — 



Cervus elaplius. Cervus Sedgicichii. 



capreolus. latifrons^ n. sp. 



megaceros. Carnutorum. 



martialis. Polignacus. 



verticornis. 



Of the nine species enumerated above two only have lived 

 down to our own times, viz. the Stag [Cervus elaplius) and the 

 Roebuck {Cervus caj^'eoliis). Tliese two, together with Cervus 

 megacerosy have not been found in strata of Pliocene age, and 

 therefore, as Mr. Boyd Dawkins justly observes (Quart. Jom'n. 

 Geol. Soc. Nov. 1, 1872, p. 410), " point rather forwards than 

 backwards in time." Cervus martialis — a species with sub- 

 compressed ramified antlers, hitherto unmentioned in lists of 

 Forest-bed Cervidse, and closely allied to the Reindeer ( Cervus 

 turandus) — leads us to draw the same conclusion, as it has 

 been found in the Postplioccne sands of Ri^ge, near Pezenas 

 {cf. Gervais, ' Zoologie et Paleontologie Fran^aise,' p. 144). 

 Of the remaining species, Cervus verticornis (rivalling C. 

 megaceros in size and characterized by the downward and out- 

 ward curvature of the brow-antler), Cervus Sedgioichii (a re- 

 markable form with compressed antlers, described by Dr. 

 Falconer, ' Paleeontographical Memoirs,' vol. ii. p. 471), and 

 Cervus latifrons have as yet been found only in the Forest- 

 bed. Cervus Carnutorum and C. Polignacus are Pliocene 

 foniis, the former having been found in the Pliocene deposit 

 of St. Prest, near Chartres, by M. Laugel, and the latter also 

 in a Pliocene deposit at Mont Perricr, near Issoire, and "figured 

 by Croizet and Joubert. 



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