S8B Scientific Notices — Zoology. [Nov. 



a new species of Emarginula, which he discovered in Poole 

 Harbour, under the name of 



Emarginula rosea, t. 4, f. 1 . Shell ovate, cancellate ; inside 

 rose coloured, vertex acute, much recurved or nearly involute. 



This shell is^very common on the English coast, and appears 

 to be only a variety of the E, coitica. It has been figured by 

 Mariiuiy i. t. 11, f. 109, 110, and by several other conchologists. 



.... il. On the East Indian Unicorn^ 



t>.'<(l''v,u1?» Off rno't "■ ' 



Whether the animal called by the Bhoieas was, as they 

 ti«serted^i the unicorn or not, the horns which they produced 

 prov€djthatthey spoke of no imaginary creature, and warranted 

 every exertion to discover the animal to which they belonged. 

 Interest was, therefore, made with the local authorities to assist 

 in the, search, and inducements held out to travellers to procure 

 Ibe lanimalj ' Accordingly a few days since the skin of the 

 i<^A//Awtwas sent to the resident, with the horns attached, proving 

 f^he .anio^J to be no unicorn, but a noble antelope, of a species 

 apparently new. There was no possibility of procuring it alive, 

 as it frequents the most inaccessible parts of the snowy moun- 

 tains, and is exceedingly vigilant, and easily alarmed. It is 

 found in the haunts of the Musk Deer, and sometimes associates 

 withfthem.u ^ oiiiv-fi s- 



It is added that though the animal produced is biconiate, yet 



that son^e-of the species are unicorns—- a rather odd assertion, 



1, which, however, is stoutly maintained. Every one, therefore, 



HAvJll, i'lom the production of the present animal, augur every 



^thing.or nothing for the existence of the unicorn, according to 



^ijiis particular fancy. This only seems necessary, that the name 



Chii-sii y. and the horns (abundance of which has been furnished), 



should, for the present be given to the bicornate animal, and the 



ultimate right of participating in either, due to the unicorn, left 



^t^;(the), decision of time. It is much to be regretted that the skin 



*3WB^c^ent folded up in such a manner, and suffered to stiffen 



3il»Ah^ti(Stat^,,that the figure of the animal to which it belonged 



i;l39^|haTdly.vbe conjectured ; nay, the probable size even will be 



obtained, if at all, by painful admeasurement of such parts as 



are^^pt aJiriyQl^d^ and a comparison by analogy must fill up the 



due amiensions' of those ports that are so. The animal is an 



antelope^ not a deer. It is a male ; his colour slaty or bluish 



* limno: to red, especiallv on the back ; his hair, which 



deal of 



ffrey,, mclinmg to red, especially on the back ; his hair, 

 ^is^ about art inch long, and exceedingly thick, has a good 



jjthat fjuill-like hollow appearance and feel tliat characteri 

 ^ xvtuf«t Deer's hair, but it is softer and shorter than that animal's. 

 ^.lt/reseml)les as nearly as possible the hair of the Nowahs, or wild 

 , Wheep of Bhote in colour, texture, and feel, and like the Nowahs 



