138 Damine Group 



Gordon Cameron has published a figure showing the almost exact corre- 

 spondence in the position of the tines of this race and those of a Scotch red 

 deer in which the bez-tine is wanting but the back-tine developed. 

 Whether the fact of the tine immediately above the trez being larger in this 

 form and the wapiti than either of the others is anything more than a 

 curious coincidence, is very difficult to determine. The large tine in ques- 

 tion corresponds to the one normally developed in the same situation in 

 Brown's fallow deer, and very occasionally in the common fallow deer. 

 Rarelv the brow-tine is undivided and much bent down over the face. 



A large series of antlers of this race are preserved in the British and the 

 Dublin Museum ; the following dimensions being taken from Mr. Row- 

 land Ward's book and Professor V. Ball's memoir : — 



Length along 

 Insiile Curve. 



Basal 

 Circumference. 



Tip 



to Tip. 



Width of 

 Palmation. 



Number of 

 Points. 



? 



IO 



I I 



ft. 



6 





I2-I I 



7 ft. si 





I I 



55 



3 



i9i 



17 



5 » H 



9l 



IO 



55 



2 



i9i 



19 



? 





9 



55 



8 





? 



? 



Hi 



9 



55 



6 



23 



? 



6 ft. 





9 



55 



5 







? 



? 



9 



55 



2 





? 



6 ft. ^ 



H 



8 



55 





i7f 



10-13 



? 



? 



8 



55 



10 





? 



5 ft- 3^ 





7 



55 



6 





IO-I I 



Distribution. — Ireland, and probably parts of Britain and Western Contin- 

 ental Europe in deposits belonging mainly to the Prehistoric period. This 

 race is the culminating form of the species, both as regards the development 

 of the antlers and its relative age. It certainly existed during the human 

 period, and in Ireland commonly occurs in the shell-marl beneath the peat, 

 although stated to be sometimes found in the peat itself. 1 Remains not 

 improbably referable to this form have been discovered in the peaty mud 

 near Newbury, Berkshire, and also in the marl below the peat at Maybole, 

 Ayrshire. 



W itli much apparent truth, Dr. Pohlig points out that the enormous 

 dimensions and wide span of the antlers of this magnificent deer would seem 



1 Sec Boyd Dawk ins, Early Man in Britain, p. 258. 



