Artiodactyla — Elk and Reindeer. 



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Fig-. 61). The true elk (Alces machlis) and the reindeer (Ran- Tlie Elk 

 gif&r tarandus) were also denizens of our island in Pleistocene 

 times (see Antlers on Piers). 



Antlers of the fifth and sixth years of Cercas tetmceros (Boyd Dawkins), from the 

 Upper Pliocene of Peyrolles, France (see Pier-case No. 15). 



Thousands of fragments of the shed antlers of the rein- 

 deer have been obtained from the Gower Peninsula, South 

 Wales ; in the Vale of Clwyd, in North Wales ; in Kent's 

 Hole, Torquay ; and from many other caves and fissures in lime- 

 stone l^ocks in England. Numerous remains of reindeer have 

 been obtained from the Thames valley brick-earth and gravels 

 in and around London, as at Ilford and at Earl's Court, 

 Twickenham, etc. A very fine antler from the last named 

 locality is mounted in Wall-case No. 15. The broken skulls, 

 with the bases of antlers attached, may also be seen from the 

 cave of Bruniquel, in France, and a fine entire antler embedded 

 in stalagmite from Brixham Cave near Torquay. 



Several extinct forms of Deer, some equalling the gigantic 



if ier-case, 

 No. 15. 



The Rein- 

 deer. 



Table case, 

 No. 10. 



See Wall- 

 case No. 1, 

 and Pier- 

 case No. 15. 



