182 William Hellter Baily. 



individuals, accompanied by the head and antlers, with other 

 bones of a Rein Deer, Cervus Tarandus, in the cutting for a drain 

 at Ballybetagh Bog, Kiltiernan, County Dublin, near the boun- 

 dary of the counties of Dublin and Wicklow (sheet 121, maps of 

 the Geological Survey of Ireland). 



Dr. A. Carte also gives in a paper read before the same 

 Society * — an account of a skull and antlers of a Rein Deer found 

 on the verge of the Curragha Bog, in the parish of Ballymadun, 

 near Ashbourne, County Dublin (sheet 101 Geological Survey 

 Maps). This fine example, now in the Royal Dublin Society's 

 Museum, was found in a very similar deposit to that previously 

 mentioned — namely, imbedded in marl and clay, under a thickness 

 of four or five feet of peat. 



From the peculiar shape of the brow antler, which forms a 

 broad vertical plate, centrally situated in front of the head, these 

 specimens are proved to belong to the Caribou, or barren ground 

 variety, now inhabiting America, between the 63rd and 66th 

 degrees of north latitude, in the winter, and migrating to the 

 coasts of the Arctic Sea in summer. It becomes, therefore, very 

 interesting to meet with evidence of the former existence of this 

 variety of the Rein Deer in Ireland. 



* Journal Geol. Soc. of Dublin, vol. x., p. 103 (1S63-4.) 



