The Zoologist — November, 1871, 2839 



A rare species of eland {Orens Bima ?) Mr. Beratnelen pointed 

 out to me, as also Damasa Brownii. An Alpine chamois, which 

 had recently dropped a young one, seemed wonderfully tame and 

 playful. The Bos Kerabou, from the East Indies, with its 

 curiously deflected horns, like the eland's, looked very fat and 

 well. 



Several white varieties of the Zebu occur in the Gardens. 



Peter Inchbald. 



HoviDgham Lodge, near York, 

 September, 1871. 



Notes on the Scilly Isles. By the Rev. F. A. Walker, M.A. 



On approaching the Scilly Isles from Penzance, at the distance 

 of twenty-five miles south-west of the Land's End, St. Martin's 

 Head, the north-eastern promontory of the island of that name, is 

 first discerned, and on paying a visit to this place subsequently we 

 discovered the honeysuckle in bloom on the very summit of its 

 topmost boulder. The eastern islands then come in view, con- 

 sisting of strangely-shaped rocks out at sea, only clothed with a little 

 grass and fern. Hugh Town itself, the chief place in St. Mary's, 

 is situate on a level spit of sand, the coast rising on either side 

 in bold headlands or rugged rocks, while the town faces two bays. 

 One very fine aloe, some nine feet in height, is to be noticed 

 here, growing in front of a whitewashed coltage and darkening its 

 windows, on the road to the church, which was commenced by 

 his majesty William IV. in 1837, and completed by Mr. Augustus 

 Smith, the Lord of the* Isles. St. Mary's, St. Martin's, Trescoe, 

 Bryher and St. Agnes are the only islands inhabited. The ruins 

 of a house are visible on the brow of a hill at Samson, and 

 St. Helen's contains only a small pest-house, or house of quarantine 

 in days gone by : with its windows and door fastened up it pre- 

 sented a dismal appearance, resembling a small morgue or parish 

 dead-house : near it is a well, some thirty feet in depth, surrounded 

 by an old iron rail, and fringed with a luxuriant growth of sea 

 fern all the way down. Dark gray rabbits, as well as a few deer, 

 have been turned loose on Samson, while ones on a small islet 

 called Tean, and goats on St. Helen's. Other smaller islets are 

 termed Castle Bryher, Scilly, Hangman's Island and Round 

 Island, &c. 



