MONOGRAPH 



THE BRITISH MAMMALIA 



PLEISTOCENE PERIOD. 



Order-UNGULATA. 



Sub-order— AR1IODACTYLA. 



Family— CERVIDvE. 



Genus — Alces. 



Species — Alces lalifrons, Dawkins. 

 Cervus latifrons, Johnson. 

 C. bovides, Gurin, MS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 PI. I. 



§ 1. Introduction. i § 4. Relation to Alces machlis, and Range in 



§ 2. Description and Identification of Skull. Space and Time. 



§ 3. Description and Identification of Antlers. 



§ 1. Introduction. — The numerous fossil Cervine remains of Pleiocene and Pleistocene 

 age, which are preserved in the museums of Britain, France, and Italy, have been for the 

 most part ignored by palaeontologists on account of the variability in the form of the 

 antlers at various ages, and because some of them belong to types which have left no 

 living representatives behind to show what they were. During the last twenty-four 

 years I have been collecting materials to fill up this blank in our knowledge, and have 



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