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found in the upper peat of Denmark :—“ Le Daim (Cervus dama). 
Bois et ossements provenants des états supérieurs de la tourbe.” * 
Nevertheless he adds, “Cet animal n’est pas originaire du Dane- 
mark; il est bien constaté qu’il a été introduit dans le pays pendant 
le moyen age.” 
In Owen’s ‘ History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds’ (1846, 
pp. 483, 484) are some brief remarks on the discovery of fossil 
remains of the Fallow Deer in a few localities in England, but the 
specimens referred to are described as “far from yielding satis- 
factory grounds of identification.” From the peat-moss of New- 
bury portions of palmated antlers and teeth have been dug out, 
which accord in size with those of the Fallow Deer, and Dr. Buck- 
land found similar remains in the large cave of Paviland, on the 
coast of Glamorganshire, with the remains of the Mammoth, 
Rhinoceros, Hyena, &c., “ deer of two or three species, and frag- 
ments of various horns, some small, others a little palmated.” 
Professor Owen justly remarks that “the same doubt as to whether 
the latter are referable to the Reindeer or the Fallow Deer arises 
as in the case of the palmated fragments from Newbury.” 
Among the animal remains found in the Swiss Lake dwellings 
were discovered fragments of horn that apparently belonged to 
the Fallow Deer. Referring to this, Prof. Riitimeyer says: t—“ A 
number of flat pieces of palmated horn with perfectly smooth surface 
found in the Bieler Lake, and now in the collection of Lieutenant 
Schwab, of Biel, can only belong to the Fallow Deer, judging from 
their size and form. I could only ascribe to this animal similar 
pieces from Meilen, which fully agreed with the abnormal form 
which the horn of the Fallow Deer assumes in old age (Cuv., Ossem. 
Fossiles, iv., tab. iii., figs. 32—35). At the same time I must remark 
that I have never yet'seen a perfect antler from the pile-dwellings 
(Pfahlbauten), nor even fragments of the skull, which, next to the 
horn, would offer the most important characteristics of the Fallow 
Deer. Reliable evidence of the spontaneous existence of this species 
of deer north of the Alps is therefore still desirable.” Nevertheless 
the existence of this animal in the Terremare of Italy—which is 
equivalent to the Swiss Pfahibauten—is quite certain. In the 
Museum of Modena are two fragments of horn, respecting which 
* «Bulletins du Congrés International d’Archéologie préhistorique 4 Copenhagen 
en 1869.’ Copenhagen, 1872, p. 162. 
+ ‘Fauna der Pfahlbauten der Schweiz,’ p. 62. 
