92 Proceedings of tlie Royal Irish Academy. 



]S"otmtlistarLcling reiterated assertions to the contraiy hy ererr 

 competent Irisli obserTer, and by Owen in the British Fossil Mam- 

 mahj^'" the eiTor that remains of C. megaceros hare been met "svith 

 in peat overlying the shell marl and clays continues to be propa- 

 gated. It is stated by Dawkins and Sandford in their Monoyraph on 

 British Pleistocene Mamriialsj^^ published by the Palteontographical So- 

 ciety, that the Cervus megaceros, C. tarandus, C. elaphus, and Bos lonyi- 

 frons, have been found associated in peat in Ireland. ]S'otv, although 

 remains of the Eed Deer and Short -homed Ox are very plentiful ia 

 the peat, there is not, as far as I can discover, a single properly au- 

 thenticated instance of exuviae of either of the other two Deer having 

 been found in the Irish turbaries overlying the shell marl and clays 

 in which they are embedded. 



A descriptive osteology of this Deer appears to me a desideratum, 

 and more especially considering the abundance of its remains, and the 

 excellent states of preservation in which they are met with in Ireland. 



The Eeixdeee, {Cervus tarandus). 



The evidences of the Eeindeer in D'eland were first recorded by 

 Oldham ;" it seems requisite, however, as far as possible, to enumerate 

 the stratagraphical conditions under which the different discoveries 

 were made : — 



1. Two almost perfect heads with horns were found in shell marl 

 under bog at Ballyguiry, near Dungarvan, county "Wat erf or d.^- 



2. The head and horn referred to in connexion with the Dish 

 Elks' remains fi'om Ballybetagh, county Dublin, were found in a clay 

 overlying granitic boulders, and under peat. 



3. A superb head, with mandible and horns, was found under peat 

 at Ashbourne, in the county of Dublin.^-' 



4. Several shed antlers, with a fragment of a skull and horn, were 

 dredged from the bed of the Shannon, near Limerick. 



5. A skull was found in the mud of Lough Our, county Limerick. 



6. A large number of remains, representing at least thirty-five in- 

 dividuals, were found in Shandon cave, near Dungarvan, associated 

 with bones of the Mammoth, Grisly Bear, Wolf, Fox, Horse, Eed Deer,, 

 and Hare.^ 



All these specimens are either in the Huseum of Trinity College, 

 or in the Museum of Science and Art. 



The noteworthy character of the horns of all these finds is the 



1-5 Page 464. 



^^ Page xiii. 



1" Journal of the Geological Society, Dnblin, vol. iii., p. 2o"2. 



^* Carte, Journal of the Geological Society, Dublin, vol. x., p. 107. Adams, 

 Transactions of the Hoyal Irish Academy, vol. xxvi., p. 210. 



^^ Carte, Journal of the Geological Society, Dublin, \o\. x., p. 103, and Plate viii. 



-" Carte, Journal of the Royal Dublin Society, vol. ii., p. 12. Adams, Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. xxvi., j). 217. 



