CERVUS SEDGW1CKII. 475 



with the characters of the large horn. This fragment, 

 although the terminal portion of the' longest tyne is broken 

 off, measures upwards of 25 inches. The basal portion 

 stretches along a length of about llf inches, maintaining 

 uniformly nearly the same diameter. It is somewhat flattened, 

 the section near the middle being 2-g x 1^. At 10 inches it 

 gives off a snag or small tyne, the section clearly showing 

 that it was of no considerable size. The remaining portion of 

 the tyne, which continues the beam above the fork of the 

 small tyne, is no less than 14| inches long, although a con- 

 siderable portion of the point is wanting. When perfect 

 this tyne could have been little less than 20 inches in length. 

 It is continued nearly straight upwards, irregularly conical 

 and but very little compressed. 



This fragment is boldly channelled with broad shallow 

 grooves.— H.F., Oct. 3, 1863.] l 



The following are the principal dimensions : 



Length of pedicle (« c), 1\ in. Diameter of bur (a a), 3 in. Breadth of bur, 

 ■j in. Girth of beam at base of pedicle, 85- in. Ditto ditto above bur, Sk in. 

 Length of beam from bur to terminal fork of royal antler (a b), 24^ in. Ditto to 

 inferior edge of supra-basilar (a d), 4| in. Length of beam from bur to fork of 

 supra-basilar (a e), 6 in. Length from upper edge of supra-basilar to upper 

 ditto of median (e i), 8| in. Length of beam from median to terminal fork (i b), 

 about 14 in. Width of supra-basilar (d e), 2\ in. Ditto of ditto at greatest con- 

 striction, 2^ in. Ditto of beam between ditto and median (/ g), 3{- in. Width of 

 median (h i), 3| in. Width of beam between median and royal (j 7c), 3i in. 

 Width of royal (m /), 4^ in. Breadth from posterior edge of beam to main fork of 

 supra-basilar (n 0), 10 in. Ditto ditto to 2nd upper fork (n p), 12^ in. Ditto 

 ditto to 2nd snag of supra-basilar (n q), 16 in. Ditto ditto to main fork of median 

 (r s), 13J in. Ditto ditto to 2nd fork of ditto (r t), 18 in. Ditto ditto to 2nd 

 snag of ditto (r 11), 29 in. Ditto ditto to fork of royal (v w), 11 in. Ditto ditto 

 to broken point of 1st snag of ditto (v z), 28 in. 



The horn above described is evidently of an adult animal, 

 but not of the maximum size which the species attained. 

 Besides specimens in Mr. Gunn's collection, there are in the 

 Norwich Mtiseum two basal fragments of shed horns, each 

 including the offset of the supra-basilar antler, presented by 

 the Rev. Mr. Foulger. They are both of larger size than the 

 corresponding parts of Mr. Gunn's specimen. One mea- 

 sures 7 inches from the bur to the fork at the offset of the 

 supra-basilar antler, with a girth of 8| inches above the bur; 

 the other measures 7| inches to the fork, with a girth of 

 7^ inches. In all these instances, one important specific cha- 

 racter is constant, namely, that the basal portion of the beam 

 is straight and cylindrical, and without a trace of brow- or 

 bez-antler. In Mr. Gunn's collection, besides detached snags, 



1 Mr. Gunn believes he has succeeded 

 in fitting this terminal portion of the 

 beam to the antler, and through his kind- 



ness it is included in the annexed draw- 

 ing. Plate xxxvii. xy. — [Ed.] 



