360 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



The dorsal color is a uniform ochraceous-tawny without 

 any indication of a Hghter rump patch. The distinctive 

 color marks are the white tuft of the tail and the white 

 band across the forehead between the eyes. The under- 

 parts are whitish or light-buffy and the ears show dark 

 tips with white inner surfaces. The sexes are alike in color. 

 The coloration of the young is not recorded, but it doubt- 

 less closely resembles that of the adult. 



Hunter met with this antelope on open, grassy plains 

 bordering the Tana, in herds of fifteen to twenty-five in- 

 dividuals. He also found them occasionally in scattered 

 bush country. They were met with occasionally along the 

 river throughout a stretch of about one hundred miles bor- 

 dering the north or east bank but were local in distribution, 

 owing to the interrupted character of the plains country. 



No flesh measurements are recorded. The body size is 

 somewhat less than that of the Coke hartebeest. The skull 

 of the type measured 12A inches in basal length by $i\ 

 inches in greatest breadth at the orbits. The horns of the 

 male exceed somewhat in length and size those of the female. 

 Ward records the horn measurements of six male and two 

 female specimens. The males in this series average 24 

 inches in length, with a spread at the tips of 13 inches. The 

 largest pair are 26^ inches long, the widest spread at the 

 tips isJ/2 inches. The largest female pair measure 21^ 

 inches in length by 11 inches in spread at the tips. 



Brindled Wildebeest 



Gorgon 



Gorgon Gray, 1850, Proc. Zool. Soc; type G. taurinus. 



The brindled wildebeests show marked differences in 

 shape of skull and horns from the white-tailed gnu, and the 

 two cannot with propriety be grouped together under the 

 same genus, as is commonly done. The snout in the brin- 

 dled wildebeest is long, the nasal bones being two-thirds 

 the length of the skull; the orbit is small and without a 

 bony ridge below it; the premaxillary bones are rounded at 

 their tips and the lachrymal bone has a shallow hollow or 

 fossa in front of the orbit. The white-tailed gnu has a 



