The Irish elk, so called from the number found in Ireland, has been found in the Shandon Cove, near Dungarvan, County Waterford, associated with the remains of Elephas Primigenius, Cervus tarandus, c while they are said to have been found in Esker gravel near Dunmore, County Galway. The larger ‶finds,″ however, are in boggy flats, but in such places generally many more heads than skeletons occur, as if the heads had been drifted by water and harboured together in some sheltered place. This seems to have been the case at Ballybetagh, near Kilternan, County Dublin, where the heads of over 110 male deer have been found; often two, three, or more, close together, without any of the other bones. Similarly, in the flats adjoining the Shannon, the heads and some few bones will be found together, more often than whole skeletons. Furthermore, female heads are rarely recorded in such places: this, however, may be due to the hornless heads having been passed over, they being supposed to be ‶only horses’ heads;″ but, at the same time, if such accumulations are due to driftage, the horned head should drift much more easily than the hornless. Such accumulations, however, may be passed over, as the principal object of this paper is to draw