22; MAMMALIA. 
Female. S. Africa. 
Young. S. Africa. From the S. African Museum. 
Half-grown. S. Africa. 
OsTEOLOGY. 
Skull. S. Africa. 
The Brindled Gnu lives to the north of the Black River or 
Nugariep, and though herds feed almost on its banks, yet it is 
not known to cross it. It occurs in large herds on the plains 
north of the Orange River, and when alarmed each herd de- 
camps in long regular files. The flesh is much sought after. The 
Bechuana use the skins for their cloaks or mantles.—And. Smith. 
Note.—Catoblepas Brooksii, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 366. t. 
f. , from horn only, is a very doubtful species. 
gr. The Bovine Antelopes. Nose moderately broad, with a moderate 
or small, bald, moist muffle. Horn high on the frontal ridge. 
Grinders rather small, without supplemental lobes. The cen- 
tral cutiing-teeth enlarged at the end. Skull with “ a large 
deep impression before the orbit, but no fissure ; the masse- 
teric ridge not extending high ; the bones of the face length- 
ened downwards and forwards, and the occiput also pro- 
longed and drawn downwards ; the process upon the alisphe- 
noid bone, which terminates the pterygoid ridge, prolonged 
and ensiform ; the auditory bulla large and prominent, en- 
closing a large rounded space for the attachment of the sty- 
lohyal bone; the hasioccipital tubercles high and sharp, the 
groove between them narrow in front, wide behind, with a flat 
space between the occipital condyles ; the median incisors 
expanded at their summits; the molars rather small, narrow, 
and without supplemental lobes, showing, when somewhat 
worn, a pit in the middle.”’—Turner. 
Bovine Antelopes, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1846; Knowsley 
Menag. 20. 
Damalis § acronotus, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv.-v. 
Alcelaphus, Turner, P. Z. S. 1850. 
Damalide, part., J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64. 
31. ALCELAPHUS. 
Horns lyrate, on the upper edge of the rather produced frontal 
bones, thick at the base, end suddenly curved at a nearly right 
angle. Nose moderately broad, cervine. Muffle moderate, bald, 
moist. Crumen covered with a tuft of hair. Female: teats 2. 
Alcelaphus (Bubalis), Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816. 
Acronotus, sp., H. Smith, Griffith A. K.v. 182; Fischer, Syn. 625. 
