84 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
skill, as will be evident from his work, the bombastic title of which 
may be overlooked. In the determination of the various fragments 
of horns he was assisted by a well-known and excellent zoologist, 
Professor Nitzsch, of Halle. The four-tined elk-horn is figured 
(pl. v., fig. 8), but unfortunately not the pieces of Fallow Deer's 
horns. Besides the remains of animals and plants, these places 
of sacrifice yielded various fashioned bones, three needles, frag- 
ments of battle-axes, pieces of urns, four entire vessels, and a 
polished shin-bone of an ox. Dr. Wagner also recognised therein 
a skate and other bones beautifully polished. No human bones 
were found. As regards the Fallow Deer, Dr. Wagner writes as 
follows (p. 34):—‘In digging at various times in this temple, we 
found fragments of horns which were more than suggestive 
of those of the Fallow Deer; but as no complete skeleton was 
ever secured, nor even such portions as would place the matter 
beyond doubt, it is still uncertain whether this species was sacri- 
ficed along with the Elk (Cervus alces), and the subject requires 
further investigation.” 
Alex. von Nordmann, in his ‘ Paleontologie Siidrusslands, * 
gives a drawing of five teeth from a “ Cervus fossilis dame affinis.” 
But in the diluvial period, and in later prehistoric times the Fallow 
Deer existed in more northern latitudes. In the year 1871, in 
the centre of the town of Hamburg, and subsequently in a tributary 
of the Elbe, numerous upper and lower jaws were discovered, 
larger than those of the existing Cervus dama, except as regards 
the teeth, which corresponded in size with those of the existing 
species. With these were found remains of the Aurochs, and other 
large oxen, and bones of the horse, pig, and other animals. The 
remains first discovered were found between tree-stumps in twenty 
to twenty-two feet of “solid black peat, the alluvium of the Alster, 
below the diluvial Geestriicken of Neustadt.” + 
Prof. Steenstrup has given a short account of the collection of 
animal remains from the Kjékkenméddings and peat bogs of Den- 
mark, which were exhibited on the occasion of the Archeological 
Congress in 1869 in Copenhagen, amongst which he mentions 
(pp. 160 e¢ seg.) the Fallow Deer, whose horns and bones were 
* Helsingfors, 1858-60, plate xviii., figs, 4—8. 
+ Dr. Zimmermann, on a new species of deer from the alluvium of Hamburg, 
* Neuen Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, Geologie und Palwontologie,’ Heidelberg, 1872, 
1 Heft, p. 26. 
