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become black as they reach maturity. The specimen of the Kokoon 

 in the Museum of the London Missionary Society (Blomfield Street, 

 Moorfields), named by Colonel H. Smith Kokoon (Cat. taurina, 

 Griff. A. K. iv. 369, v. 368), is an adult common Gnu, C. Gnu 

 (Far. mane and tail white ; Kokong, Licht. Trav. Cape), and his 

 description of Dr. Burchell's specimen in the British Museum agrees 

 with the Gnu, in having the ridge of hair on the face. Indeed Dr. 

 Burchell (Travels, ii. 278) appears to consider the difference between 

 the Gnu and A. taurina, that the former has a white and the latter 

 a black tail. Dr. Andrew Smith (Illust. Zool. S. A.) has regarded 

 the C. taurina and C. Gorgon as the same species. Dr. Sundevall, 

 in his Synopsis, has, by mistake, given the name of C. taurina to the 

 Gorgon, or Brindled Gnu (C. Gorgon, H. Smith). 



** Nose with smooth hair ; chest not maned. Gorgon. 



2. Catoblepas Gorgon. The Gorgon. 



Face convex, smooth, covered with hair, lying towards the nose ; 

 chest not maned ; black grey, varied and striped. Young : dark 

 grey ; face, gular and nuchal mane and end of tail black. Half- 

 grown : blackish ; crown grey. 



Antilope Gorgon, H. Smith ; Harris, W. A. A. t. 4. — Cat. taurina, 

 Sundev., not Burch. or Smith. — Catoblepas Gorgon or Gorgon fas- 

 ciatus, Gray, Knows. Menag. 20. t. 19. f. 2, young. 



Inhabits S. Africa. Brit. Mus. 



Colonel H. Smith has figured a pair of horns which were in Mr. 

 Brookes' s Museum under the name of C. Brookesii (t. 201. f. 1). 

 He thinks it is also probable that Bos Pegaseus (II. Smith, G. A. K. 

 t. 204, from a drawing of Prince Maurice's) is a species of this genus 

 (H. Smith, Jard. Nat. Lib.). 



5. The Bovine Antelopes have the nose moderately broad, with 

 a moderate or small, bald, moist muffle ; the grinders are rather small, 

 without supplemental lobes, the central cutting-teeth enlarged at the 

 end. 



29. Boselaphus; Bubalis, Licht., Ogilby; Acronotus, H. Smith; 

 Bubalus, A. Smith ; Alcelaphus, Blainv. ; Buselaphus, Ray. 



Horns lyrate, end suddenly curved at a nearly right angle, thick 

 at base, on the upper edge of the frontal bones ; nose moderately 

 broad, cervine ; muffle moderate, bald, moist ; tear-bag covered with 

 a tuft of hair. Females : teats two. 



1. Boselaphus Bubalis. The Bubale. 



Pale brown in early uniform ; rump like back. 



Antilope Bubalis, Pallas. — Capra Boreas, Houttayn, t. 24. f. 3. — 

 Buselaphus Caji, Ray. — Bubalis Mauretanica, Ogilby ; Sundevall. 

 — Acronotus Bubalis, H. Smith. — Bubale, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. t. 

 — Cervine Antelope, Penn. — Boselaphus Bubalis, Gray, K. M. 20. 

 t. 20. f. 1, young. 



Inhabits N. Africa. Brit. Mus. 



Far. 1 . Uniform pale brown ; with a dark brown streak down the 



