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the characteristic articular extremities, may be recognised as Mammalian 

 by its medullary cavity and by the texture of the walls, and as belonging 

 to the section of the true Ruminants by the position of the orifice of the 

 medullary artery on the fore part of the proximal end of the shaft and by 

 the direction of the canal obliquely downwards and inwards. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



1 186. The right metatarsal bone of a Red Deer, Cervus Elaphus. 



Locality unrecorded. Hunterian. 



1187- The left metatarsal bone of apparently the same Deer. 



In both bones the borders of the posterior tendinal groove are un- 

 usually developed. Hunterian. 



The following fossil remains, No. 1188 to No. 1203 inclusive, ap- 

 parently identical with the Red Deer, were discovered by Joseph 

 Whidbey, Esq., in one of the cavernous fissures of the limestone quarries 

 at Oreston, and are noticed by Mr. Clift in his memoir on the bones 

 there discovered, in the Philosophical Transactions, 1823, p. 86. 



1 188. A portion of the right ramus of the lower jaw, with the last two molars, of 

 the Cervus Elaphus. Presented by Joseph TVhidbey, Esq., F.R.S. 



1189. The proximal end of the rib of a Deer. 



Presented by Joseph TVhidbey, Esq., F.R.S. 



1 190. The proximal end of a smaller or posterior rib of a Deer. 



Presented by Joseph TVhidbey, Esq., F.R.S. 



1191. The distal half of the right humerus of a Deer. 



Presented by Joseph TVhidbey, Esq., F.R.S. 



1 192. The proximal extremity or olecranon of the left ulna of a Deer. 



Presented by Joseph TVhidbey, Esq., F.R.S. 



1 1 93. The proximal half of the right radius, with part of the anchylosed shaft, of 



the ulna of a Deer. Presented by Joseph TVhidbey, Esq., F.R.S. 



1194. The left metacarpal bone, wanting the distal extremity, of a Deer. 



Presented by Joseph TVhidbey, Esq., F.R.S. 



