1 40 Damine Group 



Characters. — Imperfectly known, but characterised by the rudimentary 

 condition of the brow-tine, and the almost horizontal direction of the base 

 ot the beam or the antlers, of which the extremity is unknown. 



Dr. Pohlig suggests that this race shows close affinity with the true 

 elks, but this view I am not prepared to accept. He further points out 

 that in the abortion of the brow-tine the antlers approximate very closely 

 to those ot the so-called Cervus daivkinsi, mentioned under the head of the 

 next race, although he adds that the former come very close to those 

 described as C. verticornis i with which they are contemporary in age. 



Distribution. — Germany and France during the middle portion of the 

 Plistocene period. 



e. Forest-bed Race — Cervus giganteus carnutorum 



Cervus mcgaceros carnutorum, Langel, Bull. Soc. geol. France, ser. 2, vol. 

 xix. p. 711 (1862). 



Cervus carnutorum, Dawkins, ^uart. fourn. Geol. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 409 

 (1872). 



Cervus verticornis, Dawkins, op. cit. p. 406 (1872), Brit. Pleist. Mamm. 

 part vi. Cervida [Mon. Pal. Soc), p. 22 (1887) ; Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Mamm. 

 Brit. Mus. part ii. p. 92 (1885). 



Cervus (hnvkinsi, Newton, Vertebrata of Forest-bed, p. 54 (1882), 

 Vertebrata of Pliocene Deposits, p. 26 (1891) ; Dawkins, Brit. Pleist. 

 Mamm. op. cit. p. 7. 



Cervus gunnii, Newton, Vertebrata of Forest-bed, p. 57 (1882), Vertebrata 

 of Pliocene Deposits, p. 28 (1891). 



Cervus fitchii, Newton, Vertebrata of Forest-bed, p. 56 (1882), Vertebrata 

 of Pliocene Deposits, p. 28 ( 1 89 1 ) . 



Cervus euryceros carnutorum, Pohlig, Palceontographica, vol. xxxix. p. 233 

 (1892). 



Cervus euryceros dawkinsi, Pohlig, loc. cit. 



Characters. — Antlers stout, directed upwards and outwards, with the 

 palmation generally slight, and the brow-tine large, simple, and inclined 

 mainly downwards ; higher up come the trez and the tine above it, while 

 the crown apparently forms two or three points, with a back-tine on the 

 posterior border. 



