CERVUS DAWKINSI. 9 



in PI. II, fig. 1, is combined with a great development of the offer b', of PI. II, fig. 2, 

 which assumes the shape of a small cylindrical tine springing at a distance of two 

 inches from the bur. 



Nor can I accept as a valid species the Cervus Gunnii which Mr. Newton (op. cit., p. 57) 

 has founded on my rough notes in a manuscript catalogue of the King Collection in the 

 Museum of the Geological Survey, which were never intended for publication. It is a 

 water-worn fragment with an oblique bur, a portion of which, with a part of the antler base 

 on the antero-outer side, has been broken away. This fractured surface occupies the posi- 

 tion of the first tine, b, in Cervus Dawlcinsi, and probably implies that a first tine has been 

 forcibly rent away. The second tine, c, presents a flattened, oval section at its base, and 

 is situated at a higher plane than the fractured surface of the bur. From the second 

 tine up to the broken end the beam becomes more and more flattened. In all respects 

 this fragment belongs to the same series as Cervus DaivHnsi, and the question as to its 

 having possessed a first tine or not is rendered of no importance by its identity of form 

 in other respects with that species. 



A second basal fragment of a shed antler in the Collection of Mr. Randall Johnson 

 is nearly of the same size as the above. It is, however, beyond all doubt without a first 

 tine, b. 



§ 3. Measurements. — The antlers in the following table are arranged according to 

 their basal circumference, and the measurements are taken in inches. The variation in 

 the measurements of the first or youngest, and the last or oldest, is normal in the 

 development of antlers in the Cervidae, and is merely the result of their natural growth. 



Measurements of Antlers of Cervus Dawkinsi. 





la 



8-8 



£o 



1^ 



Forest Bed, Sides- 

 brand, Cromer, 

 Coll. Savin, 



PI. Ill, figs. 1, lA. 



Forest Bed, Mundes- 

 ley, King. Coll., 

 Mus. Geol. Sur., 

 " Cervus Gunnii." 



— ' c 

 "o S 

 O a 



•so 



|J 



Forest Bed, Barton, 

 Norwich Mus., 



C. Fitchn, Gunn, 

 PI. II, fig. 2. 



Circumference of beam above bur (a) ... 

 Bur to fork of tine 1 (6) 



4-9 

 0-8 



20 



4-9 

 15 



275 



2-0 



5-5 

 5-6 

 17 



90 

 7 5 

 6-5 



120 + 



5-6 



3-5 

 65 

 75 



6-6 

 12-0 + 



7-0 



4o 

 7'5 



8-2 



5-5 



72 

 50 



80 

 100 

 11-94- 



8-4 



30 

 6-0 



2-0 

 3-2 

 120 



90 



21-5 + 



Circumference of tine 1 



Tine 1 to tine 2 (c) 



Bur to tine 2 



Bur to fork of tine 2 



Circumference of beam above tine 2 



Tine 2 to tine 4 (e) 



Diameter of base of tine 4 





Circumference of beam above tine 4 



Bur to tine 3 (d) 



Bur to fork of tine 3 



Total length 





