82 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Deer, as well as my study of the history of the domestic fowl,* were 
occasioned by an antiquarian discovery at Olmiitz. There, in the 
same stratum with the skull of the domestic fowl, and amongst 
weapons and utensils of the early Bronze Age, was found a piece 
of horn, which from its flatness and from the total absence of 
rugosities and tubercles (runzeln und perlen), I was at once 
inclined to consider a fractured portion of the horn of a Fallow 
Deer. Careful comparison with the horn of the Red Deer, Rein- 
deer, Elk, and Irish Elk, in different museums, particularly those 
of Stuttgardt and Munich, and in numerous private collections, 
confirmed my opinion. Reliable authorities on the Cervide agreed 
with me, although a still greater authority, Professor Riitimeyer of 
Basle, suggested the possibility of this fragment from Olmiitz 
having belonged to a Red Deer. 
Cuvier mentions fossil horns of the Fallow Deer, and speaks 
of “bois assez semblables & ceux du Daim, mais d’une trés grande 
taille, trouvés dans la vallée de la Somme et en Allemagne.”+ He 
has also figured two pieces of horn from Abbeville, which are cer- 
tainly taken from the true Fallow Deer. Moreover, he has given a 
copy ofa drawing sent to him by Autenrieth :—“ D’un craue et d’un 
merrain y adhérent, déposés au cabinet de Stuttgardt; piéces que 
ce savant rapportait au cerf a bois gigantesques, mais qui me 
paraissent plut6t se devoir rapporter & ce Daim a cause de la 
longueur de la partie cylindrique.”{ Subsequently similar remains 
of horn were dug up in Gergovia, near Clermont, in the Departe- 
ment of Puy-de-Dome, and at Polignac, near Puy, in the Departe- 
ment of Haute-Loire, which were described by F. Robert as those 
of Cervus dama polignacus; by Pomel as C. somonensis and 
C. Roberti; and by Gervais as C. somonensis, with an original 
figure by Desmarest. Gervais describes them as “des bois de 
Daims qui indiquent une espéce ou variété bien plus grande que 
celle dont il a été question ci-dessus” (namely, C. dama); and that 
these horns were “d’un tiers a moins plus grande que ceux du 
Daims ordinaire.” § 
Georg Jager, in his “ Review of the Fossil Mammalia of Wurtem- 
burg,” || refers to numerous discoveries of the remains of Fallow 
* See ‘ Zool. Garten,’ vol. xiy., p. 55. 
+ ‘Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles,’ vol. vi., Article iii., p. 191 (ed. 1836). 
t Id., pl. 168, fig. 11. 
§ Zool. Paléon. Frang., 2 ed., Paris, 1859, p. 145. 
|| ‘Nova Acta Acad. Ces. Leop. Carol.,’ vol. xxii., pars post. 1850, pp. 807, 893, 897. 
