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Natural History, -^^Zoology. 
25. Nezv Fossil Species of GluUm . — The limestone caves of 
Gailenreuth in Germany, have been long famous on account of 
the remains of unknown animals which they contain. Esper, 
Rosenmiiller, Blumenbach, and Cuvier, have published accounts 
of these caves and their contents. Three-fourths of the bones 
found enveloped in the calcareous tuffa, and earthy matter, be- 
long to two species of bear, viz. Ursus spelceus and aretoideus ; 
one-half or ttvo-thirds of the remaining fourth belong to a spe- 
cies of Hycena. A very small number of these remains belongs 
to a species of the genus lion or tiger ; and another to animals 
of the dog or wolf hinds ; and, lastly, the smallest portion be- 
longs to different species of small carnivorous animals, as the 
fox and the polecat. Very lately a German naturalist. Dr Au- 
gust Goldfuss, has detected another unknown species of bear, 
which he names Ursus priscus, and a skull and other parts of a 
cpiadruped very nearly allied to the Mustela gulo or glutton. 
An account and figures of the skull have been published in the 
Nova Acta of the Academic Caesarea Leopoldino Carolinae 
Naturae Curiosorum, vol. ix. 1818. 
We intend, in an early number, to lay before our readers an 
account of the quadrupeds and birds which have disappeared 
from this country, and now either live in other countries, or are 
extinct. 
S6. Occurrence of the Sea-Horse (Walrus or Morse, Triche- 
cus rosmarusy Lin.) in the Hebrides . — Mr W. Macgillivray has 
communicated to us a notice in regard to the occurrence of the 
Walrus in this country. He says, that in the end of December 
1817, a large unknown marine animal w^as seen near the mouth 
of Loch Seaforth, an arm of the sea which separates the islands of 
Lewis and Harris. A few days after, it was discovered by some 
of the inhabitants, lying upon a small rock at the Sound of Stock- 
ness, on the east coast of Harris. One of them, an expert 
marksman, prevailed upon the rest to venture out with a boat, 
in order to attack it. He landed upon another small rock near 
that on which the animal was reposing, and taking a deliberate 
aim, discharged his musket at it. The animal immediately 
plunged into the sea, to appearance unhurt ; but keeping its 
head and part of the body above water, presented an opportu- 
nity of lodging two other shots, the last of which, passing 
