On the Recent and Extinct Irish Mammals. U7 
in the bog of Ballyguiry, near Dungarvan, county Waterford, by 
Major Quarry, and are now in the possession of one of his family, 
F. Quinlan, Esq., of Clonkerdin House, where I have had several 
opportunities of examining them. So perfect are the antlers and 
crania and so little altered in their characters, that were it not their 
origin has been clearly established it might be fairly surmised 
that they belonged to recent individuals. The bleached appear- 
ance of the remains show that they were derived in all probability 
from lacustrine deposits underlying bog. The tips of the antlers 
present the rough altered aspect of specimensof deer’shorns usually 
from sub-turbary deposits, whilst the rest of the horns have a 
weathered and polished aspect, as if they had been either firmly 
impacted in clay with the tips protruding above, or had become 
bleached from long exposure. 
The larger of the two specimens gives a length round the curve 
of 3 feet 7 inches, and a span at the tips of 3 feet. The beam is 
round and slender. The burr is 8 inches in girth and fully deve- 
loped, which is the case also in the other head, showing that both 
individuals perished in the autumn or early winter time, when the 
horn is in its prime. The beam of the other specimen is some- 
what more flattened, and also the tines at their attachments. In 
this individual the antler is 3 feet in length round the curve, and 
has a span of 2 feet 10 inches. The calvaria have been much in- 
jured, evidently with the design of fitting the skulls as wall 
ornaments. In the latter specimen the base has not been so much 
broken up asin the other, and furnishes a breadth between the 
occipital condyles and also of the forehead and between the orbits 
of 3:2 inches respectively, indicating dimensions equal to full-sized 
skulls of recent species. The brow antlers are fully palmated with 
six to seven points on each, whilst in the other specimen the 
right is only palmated with five points, and the left brow antler 
a mere snag, without any division into points, as will be seen to 
be the case in the Ashbourne specimen as represented by Carte,* 
only the discrepancies occur in opposite tines. The vagaries, 
however, in respect to the branches of the horns of Reindeer are 
extremely common, indeed almost universal. 
2. The next discovery is of great importance, as it establishes 
* Jour. Geol. Soc., Dublin, Vol. x., Plate vii. 
