444 Rev. S. Haughton on the Fossil Red Deer of Ireland. 



XLVI. — On the Fossil Red Deer of Ireland : Observations founded 

 on the Skeletons found at Bohoe, in the County Fermanagh, in 

 1863. By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, M.D., Fellow of 

 Trinity College, Dublin. 



During the spring of the present year, in the drainage of a 

 small lake near Bohoe, in Fermanagh, a number of bones of 

 Red Deer, with those of some other animals, were discovered in 

 the sludge that underlay the bog through which the drainage 

 operations were being carried on. These bones were secured by 

 the Rev. William Steele of Portora, and were by him presented 

 to the Geological Museum of Trinity College. 



The following list contains an enumeration of the bones 

 found : — 



Red Deer. 



2 lower jaws. 



2 heads, with antlers. "] 



2 heads without horus, and 1 fragment > Five individuals. 



of upper jaw. J 



3 atlantes. 



3 axes. 



15 other cervical vertebrae. 



66 dorsal and lumbar vertebrae. 



4 sacra. 

 4 pelves. 



91 ribs. 



6 scapulae ; 3 right and 3 left. 



9 humeri ; 5 right and 4 left. 



8 radii and ulnae ; 4 right and 4 left. 



8 femora ; 4 right and 4 left. 

 10 fibulae and tibiae; 6 right and 4 left. (Six individuals). 



6 metatarsal bones. 

 8 metacarpal bones. 



7 sternal bones. 

 3 ossa calcis. 



6 phalanges and 2 hoofs. 

 18 small tarsal and carpal bones. 

 25 fragments of other bones. 



In addition to these bones, which were all those of the fossil 

 Red Deer, there were found the following : — 



1 right humerus of a young pig. 

 1 left femur of a calf (?), 



These fossils were all found in marl underlying bog, in the 

 same situation, geologically speaking, as that in which the Cer- 

 vus megaceros has been always found in Ireland. 



One of the ribs had been broken and repaired during life, 

 with the production of bony spiculse, which must have caused 

 the unfortunate brute much pleurodynia during the process of 

 healing. 



I was fortunate enough to be able to demonstrate the exist- 



