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as compared with the burr in the Cei'vus elaphus. The length of the 

 beam to its bifurcation is only 2 inches. 



The individual variations in size and proportion which the crag- 

 specimens of fossilized and more or less rolled antlers of the Cervus 

 dicranocerus have presented are not greater than those observed in 

 antlers of different individuals and of different ages of the Fallow or 

 Red Deer. 



Fig. 1 7 «, h, are views of an upper molar, of probably the Cervus 

 dicranocerus, from the same crag-pit as the foregoing antler. 



Megaceros (Subgenus of Cervus). 



A very interesting evidence of the Deer-tribe from the Red Crag 

 of Suffolk is the base of the left antler (fig. 18), which had been shed, 

 of a deer as large as the Megaceros hibernicus or of the Sti-ongyloceros 

 spelceus * . 



In the relative size and position, immediately above the burr, of 

 the origin of the brow-snag, in the absence of a second snag at the 

 distance above the brow-snag where such second snag arises in the 

 Strongyloceros speloius, in the commencing flatness of one side, and 

 expansion, of the beam at the broken end, eleven inches from the burr, 

 this crag-fossil resembles the corresponding part of the antler of the 

 Great Irish Deer {Megaceros hibernicus). The circumference of the 

 burr is 11 inches. In colour and ponderosity this remarkable fossil 

 agrees with the ordinary fossils of the Red Crag. 



I have had similar evidence of the Megaceros from the pleistocene 

 brick-earth of Essex, but equally agreeing in colour and mineral 

 characters with the fossil bones of the Mammalia usually occurring 

 in that formation. 



Order Carnivora. 



Of this order I have received clear evidences of the genera 

 Ursifs, Felis, and Canis from the Red Crag. Some more or less 

 imperfect and water worn canine teeth indicate other genera, as Phoca, 

 and apparently a species of the family Viverridce, but do not yield 

 safe ground for a decided reference. I therefore limit my present 

 notice to those molar teeth which satisfactorily determine, at least, 

 genera of the Carnivora. 



Genus Felis. 



This genus is represented by a lower sectorial or carnassial tooth 

 resembling in size and other characters that of the Felis par doides 

 of the 'Brit. Foss. Mamm.' p. 169, fig. ^^. The specimen, from a 

 Red-crag pit, five miles from Newbourn, consists of the crown and 

 base of the fangs, most of which are worn away, of the lower car- 

 nassial or sectorial molar, fig. 19. The two compressed triangular, 

 trenchant, and pointed lobes of the crown have the same near equality 

 of size, as in the corresponding fossil from Newbourn f. 



* History of Brit. Fossil Mammals, p. 469, figs. 193, 194. 

 > lb. p. 169, fig. 66. 



