1123. 



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broadest part ; the circumference of the beam above their origin is ten 

 inches, as in the preceding specimen. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



The skull and mutilated antlers of the Gigantic Deer (Megaceros Hiber- 

 nicus). The right brow-antler is bifurcate, the breadth between the tips 



the circumference at the beam above its 



of the forks being six inches 

 origin is nine inches. 

 Locality unrecorded. 



Hunterian. 



1124. A vertical longitudinal section of the skull of the Gigantic Deer (Mega- 



ceros Hibernicus), with the beam of the right antler. 



From the Pleistocene freshwater marl, beneath a bog in the county 

 Down, Ireland. Purchased. 



1125. A longitudinal section of the beam of an antler, with the part of the cal- 

 varium from which it grew, of the Gigantic Deer (Megaceros Hibernicus), 

 showiug the compact cellular tissue of the pedestal or stem of the antler 

 between the skull and the burr, and the looser cancellous tissue and 

 cavity in the centre of the beam. 



From the Pleistocene freshwater marl, beneath a bog in the county 

 Down, Ireland. 



The specimen from which the section was made was 



Presented by the Earl of Enniskillen. 



1 126. The base of a shed antler of the Gigantic Deer (Megaceros Hibernicus), 



showing the convex surface which has been detached by the absorbent 

 process from the skull. 



From the Pleistocene marl, beneath a bog in the county of Longford, 

 Ireland. Presented bij the Earl of Enniskillen. 



1127. The skull of a female of the Gigantic Deer (Megaceros Hibernicus). It 



shows that this sex, as in most other species of Cervus, had no antlers : 

 a longitudinal angular prominence risas from the posterior half of the 

 frontal suture, like that in the Giraffe ; there is an irregular subquadran- 

 gular vacuity separating the contiguous extremities of the frontal, nasal, 



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