1869.] DAWKINS BRITISH POSTGLACIAL MAMMALS. 205 



' British Fossil Mammals/ fig. 70, and reproduced by M. Gervais as 

 a British, specimen, cannot now be traced, and therefore cannot be 

 admitted in evidence of the existence of Machsiroclus in Britain. 

 Dr. Falconer inclines to the belief that the Machairodas latidens was 

 specifically identical with the M. cultrklens of the Yal d'Arno ; but 

 since the remains are so very fragmentary, and since they are indis- 

 putably broader in proportion to their length than the Italian speci- 

 mens, it is safer to preserve Prof. Owen's name in the English 

 nomenclature. 



Oi'der E-uminantia, family Cervidae, species Cervus megaceros, Hart. 

 There seems to be no reason for exchanging the name Cervus me- 

 gaceros, proposed by Dr. Hart * in 1830, for that of Megaceros hiber- 

 nicus, proposed by Professor Owen in 1843, since no difference of even 

 subgeneric value has been adduced to separate it from the great 

 genus Cervus f. It is identical with the Cervus giganteus of M. 

 Gervais, and the C. euryceros of Dr. Falconer. 



Order Ruminantia, family Cervidae, species Cervus tarandus. 

 Cervus tarandus, L., includes Cervus priscus, Cuv., C. guettardi, Cuv., 

 and C. BucJclandi, Owen t, which have been proved, by the large 

 series of antlers from Gower § and the Mendip caves, to be merely 

 varietal forms assumed by the antlers of one and the same species. 



Order Ruminantia, family Cervidae, species Cervus elaphus. The 

 fragment of Cervine antler from Kent's Hole, on which Prof. Owen 

 founds his species Strongyloceros spel(Bus\\, cannot be differentiated, 

 save by its sHghtly larger size, from the corresponding portion of 

 the antler of the Red Deer. It forms one extreme of a series pass- 

 ing from the largest fossil to the smallest living antler, and there- 

 fore cannot be said to indicate a new Cervine species. The right 

 lower ramus, figured (fig. 195) as Cervine, and ascribed to Strongy- 

 loceros spelceus ?, is proved, by the large development of the accessory 

 column in the true molars 1 and 2, to belong not to a Cervine but 

 to a Bovine species. In the absence, therefore, of evidence to the 

 contrary, Strongyloceros spelceus is included under Cervus ela- 

 phus, L. 



Order Ruminantia, family Ovidae, species Ovibos moschatus. The 

 Musk-Sheep, more commonly called, from its size, the Musk-Ox, has 

 been proved by M. Lartet^, De Blainville**, and myself ft to have 

 nothing in common with the ox or buffalo tribe, save its large size. 

 The name, therefore, Ovibos moschatus, proposed by De Blainville 

 in 1816, and indorsed by the high authority of Sir John Richard- 

 son Jij:, must be accepted instead of the name Bubalus moschatus pror- 



* A Description of the Skeleton of the Fossil Deer of Ireland. 8vo. 1830. 



t Owen, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 237; Brit. Foss. Mammals, 

 p. 445. 



\ Cuvier, Oss. Foss. tome iv. pi, yi. figs. 14-17, pi. vii. fig. 11. Owen, Brit, 

 Foss. Mammals, p. 485, fig. 200. 



§ Falconer, Palgeontological Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 525. 



II Brit. Foss. Mammals, p. 469, fig. 193. 



^ Comptes Rendus, tome Iviii. p. 26. ** Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 81. 



tt Essay on Ovibos moschatus, in the possession of the Royal Society. 



X\ Zool. H.M.S. ' Herald; 1852. 



