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notice, I am inclined to think that the Cervus sedgwickii of Gunn 
and the Cervus martiulis of Gervais are identical. 
The deposit in which this interesting form of deer occurs, is the 
forest-bed. The fine antler in the Norwich Museum having been 
obtained from the gravel pan of the forest-bed at Bacton. 
C. [Megaceros] latifrons (Johnson). — In the ‘Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History’ for January, 1874, I described a new 
species of fossil deer under the name Cervus latifrons. The species 
in question belongs to the large subgenus of palmated deer, of 
which Cervus megaceros is a well-known example. It is character- 
ized by the great breadth of the frontal bone, the extreme shortness 
of the pedicle (if a pediclo can really be said to exist at all), the 
absence of a brow antler, the beam of the antler being given off 
from the frontal bone nearly at right angles, with a slight curvature 
downwards ; while at about the distance of twelve inches from the 
burr palmation commences, and a huge tyne is given ofT from the 
anterior surface of tho beam, which curves round so as to form 
almost a semicircle. This species occurs'in the forest-bed. 
C. VERTicoRXis (Dawkins). — From a right antler in the 
Jermyn Street Museum, Professor Boyd Dawkins has described 
this species. Dr. Falconer has described the same species under 
the name C. strongyloceros. 
Tho chief characteristics are as follows : — the brow antler is 
given off about two inches above the burr, and is curved abruptly 
downwards and outwards like a huge hook. The beam above is 
quite terete but oval, and gives off from the anterior outside 
a second large antler, at about from six to seven inches from 
the burr. The species appears to indicate a huge deer as large as 
the Irish elk, but quite distinct. 
The habitat of this species was the fore3t-bed. 
C. [Megaceros] carnutorum (Dawkins). — In the Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society, for Nov. 1st, 1872, p. 409, 
Professor Boyd Dawkins has described this species. The brow 
antler rises at about two inches from the burr. Tho beam is deeply 
channelled and cylindrical. The skull differs from the true Irish 
elk in the interval between the bases of the antlers being smaller. 
' The specimen from which the species was described is [in the 
Norwich Museum, and comes from the forest-bed. 
C. polign acos (Gunn). — The Abb<$ Croizet and M. Jobert 
