4 British Deer and their Horns 
elaphus ; but, as a matter of fact, the horn measures nothing like this, nor even when the 
coronet is measured and all allowance is given for its irregularities do we get the tape to 
show more than 12 inches — certainly a good figure, but by no means abnormal for a German 
red deer of to-day. Many of the horns, too, found at Ilford and elsewhere approach so 
COMPLETE SKELETON OF THE GIGANTIC IRISH DEER 
From the specimen in Sir Edmund Loder’s museum at Leonardslee. The owner, a man of 6 feet i inch, is seen behind the figure of the animal, and 
gives the reader some idea of the grand proportions of this great deer. 
closely to the Kent Hole specimens that it seems absurd to make a new species upon such 
slender evidence.] 
Brown’s Deer (Cervus Browni ).—Although this species may fairly be regarded as the 
original form in which Cervus Dama (the fallow deer) inhabited our islands, most author¬ 
ities do not recognise it as a distinct species. It has, however, a much better claim than 
that of Strongyloceros spelaeus. The back point, which is a constant tine in the horn of an 
adult fallow buck, is in this case missing. If the reader will go to the British Museum and 
study carefully the two horns in the fossil gallery, he will see that in neither of them is there 
