82 MAMMALIA. 



Prof. Dawldns proposed to include in this species the specimens 

 referred by Sir R. Owen (Quart. Journ. Geol. Sec, Vol. XII., 

 p. 224, figs. 14, 16) to C dicranoceros, Kaup ; but it seems to 

 me that fig. 14a agrees better with Kaup's species (see remarks 

 under C. dicranoceros, p. 24). 



Cervus sutfonensis is at present known from the Red Crag 

 Nodule-bed of Sufl'olk ; Prof. Boyd Dawkins also gives it as from 

 the Norwich Crag of Horstead, in Mr. Gunn's collection, and 

 from the Pliocene of Montmarle (Aire), France. 



OeEVUS TETEAOEEOS, MACKIE. 



Plate 17., Fig. 2. 



A number of shed antlers from the Pliocene beds of PeyroUes 

 in the Puy de Dome, now preserved in the British Museum, were 

 labelled Cervus tetracroceros by M. Bravard ; but he published 

 no account of thera. In 1861, Mr. Mackie (Geologist, Vol. IV., 

 p. 465, 1861) described these specimens, using Bravard's MS. 

 name ; and in 1878 Prof. Boyd Dawkins again described them 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. XXXIV., p. 416, 1878), modifying 

 the name to C. tetraceros. It was not, however, until the year 

 1883 that this form was first recognised as British, when Prof. 

 B. Dawkins {ibid. Vol. XXXIX., p. 579) detected in the Museum 

 of Practical Geology a specimen from the Forest-bed of East 

 Runton (Plate IV., fig. 2), as well as fragments in the collection of 

 Mr. Backhouse of York, also from the Forest-bed. 



Cervus veeticornis, dawkins. 



A portion of a large antler from the Forest-bed was noticed by 

 Dr. Falconer in 1863 (Pal. Mem., Vol. II., p. 479, 1868), and 

 afterwards named by Prof Boyd Dawkins (Quart. Journ. Geol., 

 Vol. XXVIII., p. 405, 1872) Cervus verticornis, he also further 

 illustrated the species in 1887 (Pal. Soc, p. 22). Remarks on 

 the species will be found in the Memoir of the Geological Survey 

 (Vert. Forest-bed, p. 61, 1882), where one specimen is separated 

 as a distinct species, and named after Prof. Dawkins. 



Cervus verticornis has been found in some abundance in the 

 Forest-bed of Kessingland and Pakefield as well as other localities 

 in Norfolk and Suffolk. Prof. Boyd Dawkins (Pal. Soc, 1887) 

 has also identified an antler from the Red Crag of Trimley, near 

 Felixstow, in the British Museum (No. 45,929, Cat. Foss. Mamm., 

 Part iii., p. 93, 1885) as belonging to this species. 



