1872.] 



DAWEnrS FOREST-BED CERYID^. 



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agrees in every measurement with the above, with the sole excep- 

 tion that the antler is slightly smaller (a point which varies with 

 age) . Although, therefore, the brow-tyne has been broken away, 

 which is so important a guide to the determination of the different 

 Cervine species, the specimen from Norfolk may be assigned to the 

 same species. It is so like the lithograph given by Prof. Gervais {op. 

 cit. pi. xvi. fig. 4) that it does not require a figure. A second frontlet 

 of precisely the same character has been obtained from the Forest- 

 bed at Easton, Suffolk, by Mr. Ewen, and is now preserved in the 

 Chichester Museum. The left antler is in the same condition as 

 that of the French specimen, being broken off just above the first 

 tyne. The base of a shed right antler obtained from the Chillesford 

 beds of Aldeby by the late C. B. Rose, Esq., of Yarmouth, and now 

 in the Norwich Museum, presents the deeply channelled cylindrical 

 beam with a strongly defined burr running round it at right angles 

 to the long axis, the brow-antler rising at a distance of about 2 

 inches from the burr — points which characterize C. carnutorum. In 

 my belief it belongs to that species. The basal circumference is 6-5 ; 

 and the first tyne is 2*5 inches from the burr (fig. 3). Nor is there 



Fig. 3. — Right Antler of Cervits carnutorum; (Norwich Museum, 

 Hose collection). 



any thing strange in the Deer of St.-Prest being found in the Forest- 

 bed, since Trogontlierium Cuvieri, Rhinoceros megarhinus, and Hippo- 

 potamus major have been furnished by both strata. 



3. Classieicatory Value oe the Cervid^. 

 It remains now to examine the value in classification of this 



