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OSSIFEROUS CAVERN AT LONGCLIFFE. 



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parts of fallow-deer ; but, seeing that they accompany Pleistocene 

 species and that fallow-deer has not hitherto been recorded as a 

 British Pleistocene form, it becomes necessary to examine these 



remains much more care- 

 fully ; and then it is that 

 some doubts arise as to the 

 possibility of their belonging 

 to small red deer. 



Bones from all parts of 

 the skeleton are present, 

 including portions of antlers 

 with frontals, but none of 

 these are sufficient to define 

 the species. The small size 

 as well as the curve of the 

 beam immediately above the 

 burr, in one or two exam- 

 ples, seem more like Cervus 

 dama than C. elaphus, 

 but one hesitates to speak 

 positively. The numerous 

 grin ding-teeth are all small 

 for C. elaphus, although 

 some few agree fairly well 

 with those of a female red 

 deer. On the other hand, 

 the cheek-teeth of a fair- 

 sized male fallow-deer are 

 so nearly the same as those 

 of a female red deer, that 

 isolated teeth could scarcely 

 be identified. The limb- 

 bones present us with similar 

 difficulties : for the most- 

 part, they agree in size with 

 the fallow-deer, and are too 

 small for the red deer ; but 

 there are others which are 

 intermediate. 



However, a large number 

 of these teeth and limb- 

 bones appear to us to be too 

 small for red deer, and can 

 only, we think, be parts of 

 fallow-deer. If, then, we are 

 compelled to accept certain 

 of these remains as definite 

 evidence of fallow-deer in this cave, it seems highly probable that 

 a large proportion of the remains discussed, under the heading of 

 this species, are referable to the same. 



Hoe Grange : 



Nos. 2050, 2909 



(PI. VII, fig. 6), 



& 254, 3925. 



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