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varieties of the species seem to have ranged over the greater Pier-case 

 part of Europe. Jaws from the English caverns and river- 15 - 



deposits are exhibited in Table-case 10, and there is a male a ^o* 868 



skull (lacking antlers) of the Italian race, Cervus euryceros, stands Q, 

 from Lombardy, in Pier-case 15. A skull with incomplete E - 



Pig. 29. — Skeleton of male Irish Deer (Cervus giganteus), from shell marl 

 beneath a peat bog, Ireland ; about one-thirtieth nat. size. (Stand Q.) 



antlers from Eussia is mounted on the top of Pier-case 11. 

 The Pleistocene representatives of the common stag or red 

 deer, Cervus elaphus, in western Europe were sometimes of 

 gigantic size, as shown by fragments of antlers from Kent's 

 Cavern in Table-case 10. Moderately large antlers from 

 river-deposits and lake-deposits in the British Isles are 



