Giant Fallow Deer 



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b. Irish Race — Cervus giganteus typicus 



Cervus euryceros hibernice, Pohlig, Palceontographica, vol. xxxix. p. 217 

 (1892). 



Characters. — The antlers very large, with the beam above the origin of 

 the brow-tine directed almost immediately outwards, the palmation enor- 

 mously developed and situated almost in a horizontal plane; 1 the brow- 



Fig. 36. — Skull and Antlers of variety of the German Race of the Giant Fallow Deer, a, burr ; 

 b, brow-tine ; c, trez-tine ; h, back-tine ; d, supra-trez tine. (From Nehring.) 



tine large, flattened, and generally forked ; and either four or five tines on 

 the front edge above the trez, of which the one immediately above the 

 latter (corresponding to the fourth tine of the wapiti) is the longest and 

 stoutest of all. 



The back-tine is situated almost immediately opposite the trez, and Mr. 



1 This is when the face is in the normal inclined position ; in the specimen here figured the skull is 

 placed horizontally and the front edge of the antlers consequently thrown upwards. 



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