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being the largest yet recorded, except that Irish specimen at Knowle 
Manor House, in Kent, mentioned by Professor Owen. The brow antlers, 
although the largest at their bases, of any yet described, are unfortu- 
nately imperfect towards their extremities; where they spring from the 
base of the beam, they are deeply grooved, and the anterior and outer 
surfaces of the horn-beam itself also present deep indentations, which 
spread upwards and outwards along its edge into the antler; the teeth 
are worn to the crown, and several of the alveoli have been absorbed. 
Taking all the circumstances of this very old head, figured on the opposite 
page, into consideration, I think the approach of the pedestals and horn 
crowns to each other, the obliquity and the distance of the orbital holes 
from the base of the horns, and especially the grooving of the horn-beam 
upwards and outwards from the brow antler, may be taken as indica- 
tions of extreme age in this animal. This specimen, as also No. 10, 
was presented by Algernon Preston, Esq., who has lately written to me , 
to say ‘‘ they were found at Chapelizod, near this city ; but lam unable 
to give the particulars.” 
No. 6. A good head, but wanting the horn altogether on the right, 
and partially-so on the left side; very dark in colour. Label: ‘‘ Found in 
the townland of Kilnagross, parish of Kiltoghert, barony and county of 
* Leitrim, district of Eslin: Thomas J. Mulvany,. district engineer; John 
Coghlan, resident engineer.” Presented by the Drainage Commissioners. 
No. 7. A head of rather a large size; apparently of an old animal, 
although the teeth are very little worn; fragments of both horn stems 
remaining. The bone is much affected by either weather or water, and 
the interstices of the skull are filled with clay. Marked with the name 
“Donahoe ;”’ it probably came from one of the Strokestown Loughs. 
No.8. A very perfect, large head, measuring, from the occipital crest at 
top to the end of the mouth bone, 22 inches. The head is rather narrower 
than usual; a portion of each stem and both brow antlers are perfect. 
The palm of the brow antler is seven inches across ; there is some irre- 
gularity in the crown of the left beam, as if from exuberant growth; a 
small tit-like projection, apparently the commencement of a third horn, 
springs from the bone beneath the base of the beam on this side. The 
colour of the whole is very dark, but both the bone and horn are in a 
fine state of preservation ; it is heavier than any of the other specimens: 
and was ‘‘found in the parish of Cloone, barony of Mohill, county of 
Leitrim. This head was in the possession of a labourer, who said he 
found it in the river, under the village of Cloone. As he could not point 
out the precise locality where it was found, it could not be ascertained 
if there were any other bones.’ Presented by the Board of Works. (Pro- 
ceedings, Appendix, vol. y., p. 60.) 
No. 9. A fragmentary head and beam of left horn, apparently 
belonging to a young animal. The bone isvery smooth. Label, ‘‘ found 
eleven feet beneath the land surface, embedded in plastic blue clay, 
below the bed of the River Erne near Cloggy Bridge, in the county of 
Cavan, in the excavation of the channel, in December, 1852.’? Presented 
by the Board of Works. 
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