. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Giant Fallow Deer 137 b. Irish Race—Cervus giganteus typicus Cervus euryceros hibernice, Pohlig, Palceontographica, vol. xxxix. p. 217 (1892). Characters.—The antlers very large, with the beam above the origin of the brow-tine directed almost immediately outwards, the palmation enor- mously developed and situated almost in a horizontal plane;1 the brow-. Fig. 36.—Skull and Antlers of variety of the German Race of the Giant Fallow Deer, a, burr ; b, brow-tine ; c, trez-ti
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Giant Fallow Deer 137 b. Irish Race—Cervus giganteus typicus Cervus euryceros hibernice, Pohlig, Palceontographica, vol. xxxix. p. 217 (1892). Characters.—The antlers very large, with the beam above the origin of the brow-tine directed almost immediately outwards, the palmation enor- mously developed and situated almost in a horizontal plane;1 the brow-. Fig. 36.—Skull and Antlers of variety of the German Race of the Giant Fallow Deer, a, burr ; b, brow-tine ; c, trez-tine ; h, back-tine ; d, supra-trez tine. (From Nehring.) tine large, flattened, and generally forked ; and either four or five tines on the front edge above the trez, of which the one immediately above the latter (corresponding to the fourth tine of the wapiti) is the longest and stoutest of all. The back-tine is situated almost immediately opposite the trez, and Mr. 1 This is when the face is in the normal inclined position ; in the specimen here figured the skull is placed horizontally and the front edge of the antlers consequently thrown upwards. T. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, R. Ward, limited
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