MAMMALIA. 119 
A. Caama and bubalus, &c., to the Gnus”’ (p. 139); but in neither 
is there the slightest idea of the character which unites them to- 
gether as a natural group. 
. 
A. Equine Antelopes. Muzzle broad, depressed, spongy, bristly ; 
nostrils large, covered with a large spongy valve. 
Equine Antelopes (Antilopee Equine), Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. 
H. 1846, 232; Knowsley Menag. 19; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 
138. 
Catoblepas et Damalis (et acronotus), H. Smith, G. A. K. 
Damalide, part., J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64. 
29. CoNNOCHETES. 
Horns bent down and outwards on the sides, broad at the 
base, bent up at the tip. Nose broad, dilated, spongy, bristly. 
Nostrils large, operculated. Tail elongate, bushy, hairy from the 
base. Hoofs compressed in front. Intermaxillaries elongate, 
extending to the nasal, the front half expanded and flattened, 
the front part much dilated, flattened and sharp edged. Nose- 
hole rather large. Frontal bone much produced behind. Fe- 
males: teats 4. Skull: “the general characters the same as in 
Alcelaphus ; but the depression before the orbit less marked ; 
the occiput rather less prolonged, and its base, together with the 
auditory bulla, broader.”— Turner. 
Hab. 8. Africa. 
Connochetes, Licht. Berl. Mag. vi., 1814. 
Catoblepas, Plin.; Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821; H. Smith, 
Grifith A. K. v. 182; Fischer, Syn. u. 625; Gray, Ann. & 
Mag. N. H. 1847, 232; Knowsley Menag.; Turner, P. Z. 8. 
1850; Cuvier, Reg. Anim. ed. 2. 1. 274. 
Catablepas, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64. P 
Boselaphus (type), Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, 75. 
Bos, sp., Forster MSS. 
This genus, which bas all the characters of the true Antelopes, 
in the slenderness and proportion of the leg-bones, has been 
placed with the Oxen by Forster, and im the Bovine section by 
Professor Sundevall. Lichtenstein’s name has undoubted priority 
of publication. 
a. Nose with a crest of reversed hair. Chest maned. Catoblepas. 
1. ConnocHETES Gnu. The Gnu or Koxoon. 
Nose with a tuft of reversed hair. Chest maned. Brown or 
