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“No. 10,” and was found in the Derryholmes River during the excava- 
tions for underpinning the bridge. Besides the foregoing, there are two 
portions of iliac crests, also stained blue, and apparently belonging to 
the same animal as No. 51. No. 53 is a portion of a humerus. Pre- 
sented by the Drainage Commissioners. (See ‘‘ Proceedings,” vol. v., Ap- 
pendix, p. 62.) 
The whole collection of heads, horns, perfect bones, and fragments of 
C. megaceros at present exhibited inthe Academy amounts to seventy-two. 
In the foregoing list, the majority and the most important specimens 
have been identified; but some others referred to in the Proceedings 
and Presentation Book cannot now with accuracy be determined. 
The remains of the reindeer ( Cervus tarandus), or caraboe, have been 
discovered in the Dublin mountains, and may be seen in the Museum 
of the Royal Dublin Society ; in the Mansion House there is a very fine 
specimen, said to have been found in Ireland; and some bones of that 
animal were lately found in Shandon cave.* 
The horn of Cervus alces, or the true elk, was found in the county of 
Tyrone, and described by Thompson in 1837.{ The circumstance of the 
remains of these two animals, the reindeer and the elk, being found in 
Treland, affords the philosopher food for speculation as to the probable 
state of our climate when they existed here. 
The red deer (Cervus elephas), called inthenative tongue Fiadh Ruadh, 
still roams through its native woods of Kerry, and was known in parts 
of Galway, especially among the Twelve Pins, and in Erris, in the 
county of Mayo, within the memory of the last generation. This, above 
all others, was the wild animal most noted in early Irish history, and 
‘the antlers of which were apparently most frequently used in the arts 
in former times.. We possess a large collection of red deers’ horns, and 
several perfect specimens are still attached to the crania. Of these, the 
number of tines on each antler varies from 6 to 10; the latteris shown in 
the accompanying magnificent set of horns, No.3, which were found about 
7 feet under the surface, in deepening the bed of the river between the 
townlands of Ballymore and Ballinafad, county of Roscommon. Fig. 6, 
No. 2, had originally seven tines on the right, and has now eight on the 
left side. It was found at Ballinderry, county of Westmeath, and was 
presented by Barkley Clibborn, Esq. With this exception, all the remains 
of red deer in the Academy’s collection were procured during the drainage 
operations in different parts of Ireland, and were presented either by the 
Shannon Commissioners or the Board of Works. 
Other animals of the cervine species, the fallow deer (Cervus dama), 
and the roebuck, may have also existed in early times, probably intro- 
duced; and afforded to our ancestors food, clothing, and amusement, 
although not known in the time of Bede, and undescribed by Gerald 
Barry, and not found, like the remains of red deer, in our bogs. But in 
* See Professor Oldham’s paper on this subject in the ‘‘ Journal of the Geological So- 
ciety,” for 1847, and Dr. Carte’s communication in the “ Journal of the Royal Dublin 
Society,” No. XV. ! 
+ See Proceedings of the London Zoological Society for 1837, p. 53. 
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