Artiodactyla — Deer and Giraffes. 



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Irish, deer in size (Cervus verticornis, &c.), occur in the Forest Cervus 

 Bed along the Eastern coast ; C. siitionensis is found in the Red verticornis. 

 Crag of Suffolk. An interesting series of antlers, teeth, and 



Fig. 67. — Skull and antlers of reindeer, Rangiter tarandus (Linn.) ; Pleistocene " till' 

 Bilney Moor, East Dereham, Norfolk. (Owen's " Palaeontology," p. 374.) 



bones, from deposits of Miocene and Pliocene age in Darmstadt, tetraceros* 

 France, and Italy, and also from India, is arranged in the 

 Pier and Table-cases. 



Family Giraffidje (Giraffe, &c). In this group are 

 placed a remarkable series of animals, all of which (with the 

 exception of the Giraffe) are extinct. The most prominent 

 form placed in this case is the Sivatherium, a huge beast 

 described by Falconer and Cautley from the older Piocene 

 deposits of the Siwalik Hills, India. It had two pairs of horns 

 on its head, two short and simple in front, and two larger 

 palmated ones behind them. From the persistent character of 

 these bony horn-cores, we may certainly regard this animal as 

 a gigantic four-homed ruminant, having a resemblance in 

 some structural characters to the giraffe, in others to the 

 antelope. 



Pier-case, 

 No. 14. 



The Giraffe 

 and 



Sivathe- 

 rium. 



