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Professor Jukes,* that in a cutting through a bog at 

 Kiltiernan, near Dublin, in a layer of mud and vege- 

 table matter, covered by sand, and again by peat, two 

 heads of reindeer, with perfect horns, were found, 

 together with heads and antlers of thirty elks {Megaceros 

 Hib. ) ; and in a note Professor Jukes adds, " I believe 

 these horns were more like those of the Caribou {Cerf 

 bceuf) of North America than those of the Lapland 

 Reindeer." 



The latitudes which the reindeer frequents in the 

 Old World at the present day, — viz., in Europe, from 

 Southern Scandinavia to the Isle of Spitzbergen, and in 

 Asia, throughout Siberia and Kamtschatka, are — with the 

 exception of the Caucasian range before alluded to — 

 much higher than those occupied by the North American 

 variety, which inhabits the tract of country lying be- 

 tween the southern shores of Hudson's Bay and the 

 frontiers of Maine, extending westwards as far as 

 the northern shore of Lake Superior; and it is a known 

 fact that in both continents they increase in size as 

 they are found further north; yet the Caribou exceeds 

 in dimensions the largest Asiatic specimens. A mature 

 male weighs, when gralloched, full 3001bs, and measures 

 upwards of six feet in length, standing also about ten 



* Jour. Geo. Soc. Dub. 



