EUROPEAN MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE STRATA. 



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(fig. 12), with the exception that the second antler is very much 

 smaller, and evidently belonged to a younger animal. 



These antlers are distinguished from those which have preceded 

 them by the brow-tyne springing at a distance instead of rising 

 directly from the burr. 



Fig. 12. 



Fig. 11. 



Figs. 11, 12. Antlers of Cervus cylindroceros, Dawkins, Auvergne (Brit. Mus.) s 

 one eighth nat. size. 



The fragmentary remains which form the type specimens of the 

 Cvrvus ardeus (or ardei) of Messrs. Croizet and Jobert, from Arde, 

 and are preserved in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, are also refer- 

 able in part to this species, together with some other specimens 

 bearing the same name. The fragment, however, with two tynes, 

 assigned by Croizet and Jobert (pL ii. fig. 3, and pi. iii. fig, 2) to 

 this animal, probably belongs to some other species. 



It is very likely that the C. ambiguus of Pomel, from the Plio- 

 cenes of Peyrolles, belongs to this species. 



Formation. — Upper Pliocenes of Auvergne. 



