. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Fragment of under jaw, J nat. size. {StronjT/loceros spdceus ?) Kents Hole. 472 CERYUS. RUMrNANTTA. CERVUS. Fig. Fossil antler of Red Deer. Alluvium, Ireland. CERVUS (STRONGYLOCEROS) ELAPHUS. Red-deer. Cerf semblahle au cerf ordinaire, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1823, torn. p. , H. V. Meyer, Palseologica, 8vo. 1832, p. 91. Fossil Staff and Deer, Buckland, Reliquiae Diluvianse, j^ttssim. Red Deer, Cervus ElapJms, Owen, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 236. The most common fossil remains of the Deer-tribe aret
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Fragment of under jaw, J nat. size. {StronjT/loceros spdceus ?) Kents Hole. 472 CERYUS. RUMrNANTTA. CERVUS. Fig. Fossil antler of Red Deer. Alluvium, Ireland. CERVUS (STRONGYLOCEROS) ELAPHUS. Red-deer. Cerf semblahle au cerf ordinaire, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 4to. 1823, torn. p. , H. V. Meyer, Palseologica, 8vo. 1832, p. 91. Fossil Staff and Deer, Buckland, Reliquiae Diluvianse, j^ttssim. Red Deer, Cervus ElapJms, Owen, Report of British Association, 1843, p. 236. The most common fossil remains of the Deer-tribe arethose vvliich cannot be satisfactorily distinguished from thesame jDarts in the species Cervus Elaphus, which mostabounded in the forests of England until the sixteenth cen-tury, and which still enjoys a kind of wild life, by virtue ofstrict protecting laws, in the mountains of Scotland. The oldest stratum in Britain yielding evidence of a CERVUS ELAPIIUS. 47o Cervus of the size of the Tled-tleer, is the red-crag atNcwbourne. More condusivc evidence of the specificcharacter of this sized Deer is afforded by antlers aswell as teeth and bones, and these attest the e
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