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DAWEnrS FOREST-BED CERYID^.
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agrees in every measurement with the above, with the sole excep-
tion that the antler is slightly smaller (a point which varies with
age) . Although, therefore, the brow-tyne has been broken away,
which is so important a guide to the determination of the different
Cervine species, the specimen from Norfolk may be assigned to the
same species. It is so like the lithograph given by Prof. Gervais .op.
cit. pi. xvi. fig. 4) that it does not require a figure. A second frontlet
of precisely the same character has been obtained from the Forest-
bed at Easton, Suffolk, by Mr. Ewen, and is now preserved in the
Chichester Museum. The left antler is in the same condition as
that of the French specimen, being broken off just above the first
tyne. The base of a shed right antler obtained from the Chillesford
beds of Aldeby by the late C. B. Rose, Esq., of Yarmouth, and now
in the Norwich Museum, presents the deeply channelled cylindrical
beam with a strongly defined burr running round it at right angles
to the long axis, the brow-antler rising at a distance of about 2
inches from the burr — points which characterize C. carnutorum. In
my belief it belongs to that species. The basal circumference is 6-5 ;
and the first tyne is 2*5 inches from the burr (fig. 3). Nor is there
Fig. 3. — Right Antler of Cervits carnutorum; (Norwich Museum,
Hose collection).
any thing strange in the Deer of St.-Prest being found in the Forest-
bed, since Trogontlierium Cuvieri, Rhinoceros megarhinus, and Hippo-
potamus major have been furnished by both strata.
3. Classieicatory Value oe the Cervid^.