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REFERRING to Dr. Jeitteles' monograph on the Distribution of the Fallow Deer, translated by Mr. Sclater (NATURE, vol. xi., p. 71), it maybe interesting to record that fossil exuviæ referable to Cervus dama were discovered in Malta within the last few years. From inquiries I learn that they were found in a rock fissure impacted amongst the red soil which usually fills all the numerous rock rents of the island, where also fossil elephants' remains have been met with. The exuviæ in question were sent to the late Mr. W. Flower, F.G.S., and subsequently examined by Mr. Busk, Mr. Boyd Dawkins, and myself. They contain fragments of long bones and several entire feet bones and teeth, referable to small-sized adult individuals of the Fallow Deer. There is, besides, the molar of Equus and a Caninc referable to Canis, from the same situation.
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ADAMS, A. Fossil Remains of the Fallow Deer found in Malta. Nature 11, 247 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011247a0
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