MAMMALIA. 



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antlers from a deposit of tufa near Bakewell, Derby- 

 shire, is placed in a case on tlie top of Pier-case 16. 

 There are also associated remains of an extinct fallow deer 

 {C. hrotvni) in Pier-case 15, and of the roebuck {Capreohis 

 caprea) in Table-case 10. The reindeer {Bangifcr famndus) 

 during the Pleistocene period wandered as far south as the 

 Pyrenees and Alps, and there are fine antlers (Fig. 31) from 



Pier-ease 



15. 



Table-case 



10. 



Pig. 32. — Autlers of fifth aud sixth years of " Cerviis " tetraccros, from 

 the Upper Pliocene of Peyrolles, France; one-tenth nat. size. (Pier- 

 case 15.) 



the Thames \alley and otlier English localities in Pier-case 

 15. This animal is said to have survived in Caithness so 

 late as the twelfth century, l)ut experiments have shown that 

 even when imported and allowed suita])le feeding ground it 

 is unable to exist in that country now. The elk [Alecs 

 machlis) also lived in Pleistocene P»ritain as far south as the 

 Thames valley (see Pier-case 15 and the pillar Itetween 



Pier-case 

 15. 



