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in a work entitled ‘ Recherch.es sur les Ossemens Fossiles du 
Departement du Puy de Dome,’ publishes the figure of an antler 
which agrees exactly with a specimen in the Norwich Museum. 
The species to which this antler belonged, Mr. Gunn has named 
Cervus polignacus. The fragment named above is a shed antler, 
throwing off from the beam a brow antler, which nearly continues 
the beam downwards : the beam itself is deeply channelled ; round 
below, and flattened a little above. 
The fragment upon which the species is founded conies from 
the forest- bed. 
C. gunnii (Dawkins). —A fragment of an antler, belonging to 
a large palmated deer, in the Jermyn Street Museum, is labelled 
Cervus gunnii , but so far as I am aware has not been described. 
The specimen comes from the collection of the Eev. S. W. King, 
and was obtained from the forest-bed. 
C. booides (Gunn). — In the Norwich Museum is a very re- 
markable fragment of an antler, to which Mr. Gunn has given 
the name Cervus booides, on account of its great resemblance to 
the horn cores of Bos. It has all the true characteristics of a 
cervine antler, but is given off from the skull exactly similar to the 
horn cores of Bos or Bison. This specimen comes from the gravel 
pan of the forest-bed. 
Order CARNIVORA. 
Section PL ANTIGRAD A. 
Genus URSUS. 
U. SPELiEUS (Blumenbach).— The chief characteristics of this 
species are as follows : — the long edentulous interval between the 
canine tooth and the first of the series of four molars ; the com- 
plicated crown of the first and smallest of the molars ; and the 
superior breadth of the fourth molar, when compared with that of 
the common and grizzly bears. The enormous size of the animal, 
it being larger than the Ursus ferox, or grizzly bear of North 
America, is another point. In this species no false molars are 
present in the upper jaw. The zygomatic arch of the skull is also 
broader and shorter, comparatively, than in Ursus arctos or Ursus 
■priscus. 
Specimens of the bones and teeth of this species have been 
