On the Recent and Extinct Irish Matinats: tor 
The particular breed, viz.:—The famous greyhound pig, now 
nearly, if not altogether, extinct, formed a well marked variety, 
and was easily discriminated from the other domesticated races 
by its long, narrow, facial aspect, and, as I observed in the actual 
specimen figured by Wilde in his paper just alluded to, the 
lachrymal has a long malar border, as pointed out by Dr. Rolleston 
in his paper on the Pre-historic British Sus.* as being one of the 
characteristics of Sus scrofa as compaved with other pigs. 
THE IRISH ELK (Cervus Megaceros). 
It would not be easy to name a county in Ireland where 
remains of this stag have not turned up. It was evidently very 
common in the island during the lake period prior to the formation 
of peat, 2.¢., at and after the close of the Glacial period. Remains of 
this great horned deer have been found in subturbary deposits 
associated with those of the Red deer and Reindeer,+ and in the 
shell, marl, and clays where relics of the Mammoth, Ursus fossilis 
and possibly the horse have also been found. As the wolf sur- 
vived up to historical times in Ireland, it also was doubtless 
contemporaneous with the Irish Elk, and the same may be said 
of the Fox and the other quadrupeds, whose exuvie are recorded 
from Shandon Cave. Of this deer’s contemporaneity with Man 
in Ireland there is no authentic evidence, and the so-called 
mutilated bones have been shown to have been caused by other 
influences than his; moreover, neither have its remains been 
found in caverns nor in peat. To the preservative influence of 
the shell, marl, and clay of these ancient lakes the excellent con- 
dition of its bones is to be ascribed, and although, no doubt, its 
prevalence in Ireland as compared with Great Britain was owing 
in a measure to the absence of Man, and such carnivores as the 
Lion, Hyena, Great Cave Bear, and the like, still it must be 
understood that. Ireland was then a network of lakes in which 
herds of male Elks were being constantly drowned. The rarety 
of female crania and the discoveries of remains of herds of males 
in certain bogs such as Ballybetagh, in the Dublin Mountains, 
* Jour. Linnean Society, vol. xiii. 
_ f Oldham, Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. iii, p. 252.° 
t Carte, Jour. Roy. Geol. Soc., vol. i., p. 152, Jukes, vol. x., p. 127, 
