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GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
NEW SERIES. DECADE Ill. VOL. VI. 
No. IV.—APRIL, 1889. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLIHS. 
I.—Somr Anppitrons To THE VERTEBRATE F'aunA OF THE NoRFOLK 
** PREGLACIAL Forest Bev” with Descriprion or A New SPECIES 
or Derr (Cervus RECTUS). 
By E. T. Newton, F.G.S., F.Z.S8. 
(PLATE V.) 
ERTEBRATE remains from the “Forest Bed” continue to be 
brought to light by the rapid denudation of the Hast Anglian 
coast, and I have again to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. A. 
Savin. of Cromer, whose assiduous collecting has preserved so many 
of these fossils, and made them available for scientific study. One 
of the specimens which he has now sent me is a species of Cervus, 
apparently new to science, while the others, although referable 
to living forms, are now for the first time definitely recorded 
from the “ Forest Bed,” and if my determinations prove to be correct, 
the following names may be added to the list of Mammalia from 
this deposit :— 
Cervus rectus, new species. 
Bison bonasus, Linn., var. priscus, Bojanus 
(to replace Bos primigentus). 
Phoca barbata, Fabricius. 
Delphinapterus leucus, Pallas. 
Phocena communis, Lesson. 
Cervus rectus, new species. Plate V. Figs. 1, la. 
One of the most interesting specimens recently discovered in the 
Cromer “Forest Bed” is a small cervine antler from Sidestrand, 
attached to the frontal bone by a long pedicle, which reminds one 
of the recent Muntjac; the form is new to these deposits and, 
arently, is an undescribed species. 
he frontal suture has been broken away, and consequently the 
real width of the frontal is uncertain; it is now about 29 mm., and, 
when perfect, could scarcely have been more than 53 mm.; so that 
the entire width across the two frontals, just above the orbit and 
including the bases of the pedicles, could not have been more than 
66 mm. (a little more than 24 inches). 
The pedicle is nearly round, where it is free above the frontal, 
and has a circumference of 58mm.; seen from the front it is nearly 
vertical upon the skull, having but a slight divergence; while in a 
side view, it is so oblique to the frontal as to extend a long way 
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