660 THE HARTEBEEST. 
The colour of the ordinary Gnoo (Connochetes Gnu) is brownish-black, sometimes 
with a blue-erey wash. The mane is black, with the exception of the lower part, which 
is often greyish-white, as is the lower part of the tail. The nose is covered with a tuft 
of reversed hair, and there is a mane upon the chest. The BrRINDLED GNOo may be 
distinguished from the common Gnoo, or Kokoon, by its convex and smooth face, the hair 
lying towards the nose, instead of being reversed. There is no mane upon the chest, and 
the brown hide is varied and striped with erey. It is higher at the withers than the 
Kokoon, and its action is rather clumsy. It is very local in its distribution, being found 
northwards of the Black River, and never being known to cross that simple boundary. 
It lives in large herds, and when observed, the whole herd forms in single file, and so flies 
from the object of its terror. 
One of these animals, called in the interior the Blue Wildebeest, was captured by 
Cumming in a very curious manner. ‘The animal had contrived to hitch one of his fore- 
legs over his horns, and being thus incapacitated from running, was easily intercepted 
and killed. It had probably got into this unpleasant position while fighting. The Gnoo 
is about three feet nine inches high at the shoulders, and measures about six feet six 
inches from the nose to the root of the tail. 
HARTEBEEST.—Aleéphalus Cadéma 
Or the genus Alcephalus, or Elk-headed, the HArTEBEEsT, or LEcAMA, is a good 
example. 
This handsome animal may be easily known by the peculiar shape of the horns, which 
are lyrate at their commencement, thick and heavily knotted at the base, and then curve 
off suddenly nearly at a right angle. Its general colour is a greyish-brown, diversified by - 
