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CERVUS. 



very fragmentary state. Of the antler, however, which forms 

 the subject of the following description, Mr. Gunn has suc- 

 ceeded in uniting the numerous fragments, so as to render 

 the specimen unusually perfect. 



Cervus. — Sub-gen. Eucladoceros (Falc.) 1 — Charact. : Horns 

 pedunculate, branched, without brow- or bez-antlers ; beam 

 and compound antlers compressed, the latter thrown off for- 

 wards and terminating without palmation in long tynes. 



C. (Eucladoceros) Sedgwickii (Gunn). — Horns very ample, 

 indicating a large species. Bur prominent, without obliquity. 

 Beam cylindrical and straight at the base, compressed up- 

 wards, giving from its anterior margin three sub-equidistant 

 antlers, which from the summit downwards are successively 

 bi- tri- and quadrifurcate. Tynes long, straight, and conical, 

 diverging in the same vertical plane. A single elongated 

 tyne or fork ? terminating the beam. 



Habit. : Fossil in the indurated gravel pan of the ' Forest- 

 bed ' of the Norfolk coast at Bacton, south of Coal Gap. In 

 the collection of the Rev. John Gunn. 



The cervine horn to which the above definition applies is 

 shown by the outer oblique ridge of the pedicle to be of the 

 right side. The specimen was found in January, 1863, em- 

 bedded in the matrix after the scouring action of a heavy 

 gale, which denuded the ' Forest-bed ; ' and although broken 

 up into a large number of fragments, the most of these were 

 recovered ; so that, with the exception of the branch or snag 

 immediately terminating the beam, the outline of the perfect 

 horn is fairly presented in its principal features. The whole 

 of the pedicle is present, with the corresponding basal por- 

 tion of the frontal, but without any determinable part of the 

 orbit or cerebral cavity. 



The pedicle is well developed, and of sufficient length to 

 remove, in that respect, the species from affinity with the 

 Reindeer, the existing Elk, and the Irish Elk. The bur is 

 prominent, with large warty tubercles. The beam is cylin- 

 drical and straight at the base, for a distance of about four 

 inches, where the first antler is given off. It is then recli- 

 nate in an easy curve, with a slight bend outwards, until 

 above the offset of the median antler, whence it is curved 

 gently forward as far as opposite the offset of the third or royal 

 antler, where the commencement of another slight reclina- 

 tion is visible. The apex of the beam is broken off here on a 

 level with the upper edge of the royal antler, leaving doubt 

 as to the manner in which it terminated upwards, whether in 

 a single elongated snag, or in a bifurcated branch. 2 



1 See vol. i. p. 587.— [Ed.] 



2 Extract from Br. F.'s Note-look - 



' The butt of the beam is very terete at 

 the base and boldhy channelled, and 



