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British Deer and their Horns 
In the British Museum there is a splendid piece of horn of this species which was dredged 
from the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. 
Dawkins’s Deer (Cervus Dawkinsi). — A deer with a palmated antler, whose type seems 
to approach that of the elk family. 
Savin’s Deer (Cervus Savini). — A large deer resembling the red deer. 
Cervus Verticornis.— Another large deer whose horns resemble those of the red deer, 
except that in adult animals the horns become more palmated and thicker and are apt to 
throw off tines at almost any point of the anterior or posterior margin of the beam. 
Cervus Polignacus.— Another large deer with a long brow point, whose beam spreads 
into palmation, like that of the fallow deer, about io-Jr inches from the base. 
Sedgwick’s Deer (Cervus Sedgwickii ). — See illustration, which suggests a form of deer 
whose representatives are no longer found in Europe. 
Buckland’s Fossil Deer (Cervus Bucklandi ). — This species of deer, about the size of the 
reindeer, but differing from all known existing species in Europe, was first described by Dr. 
Buckland, the geologist, from the remains found in the cave of Kirkdale, and was named 
after him by Sir Richard Owen. Its horns seem to have resembled those of the white-tailed 
and mule deer of North America in that the first point is situated at a distance of 3^ inches 
from the base. Owen says, “ Such a position of the first branch may be observed amongst 
existing deer in the great rusa or hippelaphus of India ” (by which I presume the sambhur 
is meant), but that is certainly not the position of the first point in any of the rusa family. 
In their case it springs immediately in front and above the coronet, bending at once 
both outwards and upwards. 
The foregoing species all flourished at a period of which it is difficult nowadays to give 
much trustworthy information of general interest. As, however, we come to the list of deer 
which inhabited these islands in later Pleistocene times, our information is far more extended 
and exact. 
