CERVUS BROWNI. 



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found also at Clacton, while the deep excavation between the tines forbids its being 

 identified with a palmated fragment of antler of reindeer. Therefore the supposition 

 that it belongs to Cervus Broivni amounts almost to a certainty, and if so, then it could 

 only belong to the crown. The broad and deep excavation (fig. 7) above mentioned, 

 brings the cortical layer of dense osseous tissue on either side into juxtaposition, and 

 explains exactly why the two layers should be thus brought together at the point of the 

 fractured apex of fig. 3. I have therefore restored the crown of the antler (fig. 3) 

 according to the light thrown upon it by fig. 7. On the back of the antler the third 

 tine, d, of fig. 3 is given off in an upward and backward direction. The beam, looked 

 at from behind, presents a somewhat sigmoidal contour, as is generally the case with 

 cervine antlers. 



§ 3. Measurements. — In the following table the variations in the size of the antlers 

 are shown. They are not compared with those of fallow deer, because in the latter the 

 antlers have been modified to such a degree by domestication that the measurements of 

 Museum specimens are of very little value. It is sufficient to say, in general terms, that 

 the antlers of Cervus Broivni correspond in size with the average of those of the fallow 

 deer in the English collections. 



The maximum circumference of the beam is 5 - 8, the minimum 3*0 inches. 



Measurement of Antlers of Cervus Browni. 



Circumference above the bur (a) 



Maximum length of brow-tine (6) 



Length of beam between brow- and 



second tine (c) 



Breadth of second tine 



Length of second tine 



Length of beam between second and 



fourth tine (e) 



Breadth of fourth tine (e) 



Breadth of third tine (d) 



Length of beam from base to third tine 



Inner length of pedicle 



Circumference of pedicle 



British Museum. 



37778 37778 37778 37778 WS , (!9 , RR , 37778 9W7 ,. 37778 37778,37778 

 A B C D | 2/876 ! 27883 | E 27976 P G H 



3-8 



5-0 



5-2 



5-4 

 5 4 



6-5 

 1-5 

 5-4 



3-6 

 175 

 075 

 18-0 



.0-1 

 4-8 



7-0 



105 



5-0 



0-62 



4-8 I 



7 

 135 



62 



67 



§ 4. Comparison with Cervus dama. — The antlers of Cervus Browni are totally 

 unlike those of any existing species excepting Cervus dama, to which they approach so 

 closely that the type specimen (fig. 3) was considered by Dr. Falconer 1 to belong to the 

 latter. The basal half, indeed, so strongly resembles the corresponding portion of that 



1 Op. cit., vol. ii, p. 480. 



