THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite foutes : 

 Pollice virgineo tenoros h'lc carpite flores : 

 Ploribus ct; pictum. divoe. replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o NjTiiphaj Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, rccurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellitc muscosis e rupibu8, ct mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dose ijelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



iV. Parthenii Giannetfafii Eel. 1. 



No. 73. JANUARY 1874. 



I. — Notice of a new Sj)ecies of Deer from the Norfolk 

 Forest-Bed. By Randall Johnson, Esq. 



[Plato I.] 



Tt is well known that the Forest-bed which runs along the 

 Norfolk coast abounds in mammalian remains of various 

 species. Amongst these the remains of Cervidai are largely 

 represented ; but they have not until lately received from 

 palaeontologists the attention so deservedly due to them. It 

 would not, however, be right to omit to mention the labours 

 of Dr. Falconer, who turned his attention to the Forest-bed 

 fauna during the later years of his life, of the Rev. John Gunn, 

 of Irstead, Norfolk, and, more recently, of Mr. Boyd Dawkins, 

 all of whom have contributed to extend our knowledge on 

 this subject. Among tlic many remarkable species found in 

 this deposit there is one which is certainly new to Britain, and, 

 so far as I am able to ascertain, one that has not been found in 

 any deposit of corresponding age with the Forest-bed on the 

 continent. This new form is represented by the left antler 

 and a portion of the left frontal l)one, which I had the good 

 fortune to oljtain myself from the Forest-bed at Hasbro, a 

 Ann. (£• Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xiii. 1 



