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varieties of the species seem to have ranged over the greater Pier-case 

 part of Europe. Jaws from the Euglish caverns and river- rpg^i^ig.gg^geg 

 deposits are exhibited in Table-case 10, and there is a male 9, 10. 

 skull (lacking antlers) of the Italian race, C'crvus euryceros, Stands Q, 

 from Lombardy, in Pier-case 15. A skull with incomplete 



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Fig. 29.— Skeleton of male Irish Deer (Ccrvus gigantcns), from shell marl 

 beneath a peat-bog, Ireland ; about one-thirtieth nat. size. (Stand Q.) 



antlers from Russia is mounted on the top of Pier-case 11. 

 The Pleistocene representatives of the common stag or red 

 deer, Cervus elcophns, in western Europe were sometimes of 

 gigantic size, as shown by fragments of antlers from Kent's 

 Cavern in Table-case 10. Moderately large antlers from 

 river-deposits and lake-deposits in the British Isles are 



