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noteworthy that the polycladine deer (Cervus sedgwicki) do not reappear 

 in any of the subsequent Pleistocene formations of Europe. 



A rrivals. — Among the new arrivals in the Forest Bed of Xorfolk are 

 the earliest members of the giant deer race (Megaceros) which continues 

 into Middle Pleistocene times in Europe. We also note in the Forest 

 Bed the presence of a form (Caprovis) intermediate between the goat 

 and the sheep, as the name indicates, and most closely resembling the 

 moufflon of Sardinia. Among the rodents the large beaver Trogonthe- 



Fig. 10. — Giant deer, Megaceros, of the British Pleistocene 



From a skeleton found in the Irish peat hogs. After original by Charles R. Knight in 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



Hum cuvieri succeeds the smaller ancestral species (T. minus) first ob- 

 served in the Pliocene of the Eed Crag. The giant hippopotamus (H. 

 major) is certainly recorded in this region of Great Britain as well as to 

 the south in Italy. 



Among the proofs of a northerly climate is the first occurrence of the 

 musk-ox (Ovibus), which is attributed by Dawkins ::n to the Forest Bed 

 deposits. 



39 Dawkins, W. Boyd: "On the Alleged Existence of Ovibos moschatus in the Forest- 

 bed, and on its Range in Space and Time." Quart. .Tour. Geol. Soc. London, Vol. 39, 

 pp. 576-579. 1883. 



