CERVID^E. 



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The cervine Kuminants have been divided into subgenera 

 according to the forms of the antlers. Of the group with 

 antlers expanded and flattened at top, of which the fallow- 

 deer (Dama) is the type, no fossil examples have been found 

 in Britain. Cuvier has described and figured antlers of great 



Fig. 157. 

 llegaceros Hihernicvs (Pleistocene marl). 



size from the drift gravel, underlying fresh-water sands, marl 

 and brick-earth, in the valley of the Somme, near Abbeville, 

 which, from the relative position and direction of the brow- 

 snag and mid-snag, and from the terminal palm, he regards as 



