94 UNGULATA. 



a prominent burr, without obliquity ; beam cylindrical, and straight 

 at the base, compressed upwards, giving from its anterior margin 

 three subequidistant tynes, which from the summit downwards are 

 successively bi-, tri-, and quadrifurcate. Tynes long, straight, and 

 conical, diverging in the same vertical plane. An antler is figured 

 in ' Falconer's Palseontological Memoirs,' vol. ii. pi. xxxvii. fig. 1. 

 Hah, Europe. » 



33471 f. Middle porjtion of an antler ; from the Forest-bed of Nor- 

 folk. Layton Collection. Purchased, 1858. 



33471 g. Base of an antler ; from the Forest-bed of Norfolk. 



Layton Collection. Purchased, 1858. 



33471 h. Portion of an antler, provisionally regarded as belonging to 

 a young individual of the present species ; from the Forest- 

 bed of Norfolk. Layton Collection. Purchased, 1858. 



D. Elaphine Group. 

 Antlers rounded, bez-tyne present. 



CerbusJ elapfjutf, Linn. 1 



Syn. Strongyloceros spelceus, Owen 2 . 



Cervus barbarus, Gray 3 {ex Bennett, MS.). 



Hah. Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa. 



M. 393. The skull and antlers (with nine tynes) ; from the Pleis- 

 tocene of Ireland. Egerton Collection. Purchased, 1882. 



M. 392. The antlers of a very old individual ; from the bed of the 

 Lake of Toberscanovan, County Sligo, Ireland 4 . The 

 specimen is noticed and the right antler figured in Owen's 

 ' British Fossil Mammals and Birds,' pp. 472, 478, fig. 

 196 ; the figure being reproduced in the accompanying 

 woodcut (fig. 9). The length of each antler is 30 inches; 

 and each gives off fifteen tynes. 



Egerton Collection. Purchased, 1882. 



1 Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 93 (1766). 



2 ' British Fossil Mammals and Birds,' p. 469 (1846). 



3 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 227. 



4 This is the locality given in Egerton's MS. Catalogue of his Collection. 

 Owen gives the bed of the Kiver Boyne, Drogbeda. 



