182 WILLIAM HELLIER BAILY. 
individuals, accompanied by the head and antlers, with other 
bones of a Rein Deer, Cervus Tarandus, in the cutting for a drain 
at Ballybetagh Bog, Kiltiernan, County Dublin, near the boun- 
dary of the counties of Dublin and Wicklow (sheet 121, maps of 
the Geological Survey of Ireland). 
Dr. A. Carte also gives in a paper read before the same 
Society *—an account of a skull and antlers of a Rein Deer found 
on the verge of the Curragha Bog, in the parish of Ballymadun, 
near Ashbourne, County Dublin (sheet 101 Geological Survey 
Maps). ‘This fine example, now in the Royal Dublin Society’s 
Museum, was found in a very similar deposit to that previously 
mentioned—namely, imbedded in maz! and clay, under a thickness 
of four or five feet of peat. 
From the peculiar shape of the brow antler, which forms a 
broad vertical plate, centrally situated in front of the head, these 
specimens are proved to belong to the Caribou, or barren ground 
variety, now inhabiting America, between the 63rd and 66th 
degrees of north latitude, in the winter, and migrating to the 
coasts of the Arctic Sea in summer. I1t becomes, therefore, very 
interesting to meet with evidence of the former existence of this 
variety of the Rein Deer in Lveland. 
* Journal Geol, Soc. of Dublin, vol. x., p. 103 1863-4.) 
