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1234. Portions of the antler of the same species of Deer. 



From the same locality. Presented by J. Robertson, Esq. 



The foregoing specimens from Sicily were accompanied by the 

 following memorandum : — 



" The large Stag-horns marked with red tape were taken from the 

 cave or grotto ; the rest from the other spot, which it may be well to 

 mention was only a few paces in front (but on a lower level by twelve or 

 fifteen feet) of a natural cave or grotto." The ' rest ' alluded to are the 

 fossil remains of the Hippopotamus, Nos. 1047 to 1059. 



1235. The back part of the cranium of a large species of Cervus. 



From the tertiary deposits of the Sub-Himalayan range, India. 



Presented by the Rev. E. Everest, M.A. 



1 236. The pedestal and base of the antler of a large species of Cervus, of the 



round-antlered or Elaphine family, 



From the tertiary deposits of the Sub-Himalayan range, India. 



Presented by the Rev. E. Everest, M.A. 



Subgenus Tarandus (Rein Deer). 



1237- The base of the antler, with a long subcompressed brow-antler broken at 

 the extremity, of the Tarandus priscus, ' Renne d'Etampes,' Cuv. 



This is the original specimen figured in Parkinson's ' Organic Remains,' 

 vol. iii. pi. xx. fig. 3 (half nat. size), and thus noticed at p 319 : — " M. 

 Guettard discovered, between the blocks of sandstone, and in the sur- 

 rounding sand in the neighbourhood of Etampes, with other bones of 

 different sizes, the bones of an animal which appears to have been of a 

 size between that of the Stag and of the Roebuck ; the horns are distin- 

 guishable by their being very small, thin and rather flat ; and by their giving 

 off, at a little distance from their base, one or two antlers on their fore 

 part. From a variation in this last circumstance, depending very proba- 

 bly on a difference in the age of the animal, these horns may be divided 

 into two sorts. In the one about two inches above the coronet, an iso- 



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