Kinematics of the neutral hydrogen toward the core of NGC 3894

We present results of high-resolution VLBA observations at 1.4 GHz of the n uclear region of the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 3894. An angular resoluti on of 9 mas (1.4 h(-1) pc) was obtained, with a velocity resolution of 7 km s(-1) and an rms noise of 1.5 mJy beam(-1) per channel. The 21 cm atomic h ydrogen line is seen in absorption slightly redshifted with respect to the systemic velocity toward the core, jet, and counterjet of this source. Ther e are four components in the gas that are spatially and/or spectrally disti nct, two of which appear to be part of a single larger structure, possibly a circumnuclear torus.