GOAT, OR SHEER — BED DEER. 
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broken), 19i inches; from burr to burr, ; length of horn-core (left), nearly 
perfect, 6^; circumference at burr, 7| ; from orbit to orbit, a portion of 
frontlet, with horn-cores, of a young animal ; a rather well-preser\ ecl pelvis, 
and two others not so good, all found in the Abbey INIeadow in 1880. 
A demi-frontlet of a very young animal found, also in the Abbey Meadow, 
in Sept., 1881. 
A left lower ramus, containing three molars ; and several loose teeth, found, 
at considerable depths, during excavations for the Flood Works, in Braunstone 
Gate, in 1885. 
At Barrow-on-Soar (previously referred to) were found ; — Portion of frontlet 
with right horn-core ; portion of frontlet with portions of both horn-cores ; 
portion of frontlet with portion of left horn-core, and portion of frontlet without 
horn-cores. 
In 3Iay, 1887, I procured a molar tooth at the Flood Works, “Twelve 
Bridges,” said to be from a depth of 12 ft. in blue clay. All the preceding are in 
the Museum; and in June, 1888, I was enabled, through the courtesy of Mr. Ball, 
of the Loughborough Gas Works, to examine a portion of mandible, containing 
two teeth of an aged animal, said to have been found at about 9 ft. deep, in 
gi-avel, during excavations for a new tank, but there is some mistake as to the 
depth, and apparent association with Elephant remains. 
GOAT, OR SHEEP. Copra or Ovis. 
Originalh’ introduced by Pre-Historic Man, and extending to the present. 
The following remains, though indistinguishable from existing species, are, from 
the position in which they were found, probably referrible to the Pre-Historic 
Period : — Frontlet, with horn-cores broken off at about H inches from base,* 
discovered at side of River Wreake, Syston, in June, 1873, at a depth of 16 or 
17 ft., in bluish mud or clay. (See plan A, and p. 26 ‘Transactions Leicester 
Lit. and Phil. Soc.,’ Oct., 1888.) 
Basal portions of two skulls found at excavations in Leicester (date unknown), 
presented by iMr. Jas. Plant, F.G.S., 24th March, 1884, and erroneously stated 
to be those of Roebuck. 
Frontlet with horn-cores, from refuse-pit, Barrow-on-Soar, 15th July, 1886. 
Family CEEVID^. 
RED DEER. Cervus elaphns, IJnnaeus. 
“Stag,” “Hart” (male), “ Hind ” (female), “Calf’ (young). 
Of Early Pleistocene age, and has survived as a species until the present 
time, being semi-domesticated in a few parks in the county ; nowhere more 
* Erroneously described in Museum Donation-book, under date 22nd October, 1874, and 
in ‘ Transactions Leicester Lit. and Phil. Soc.,’ 1874, as “Fragment of Skull of Roebuck.” 
