224 African Zooloyy. 



Tribe BOVID.E. 



Horns persistent, common to both sexes, vaginating upon a bony 

 nucleus, not solid but more or loss porous and cellular; the 

 horny sheath increasing by ringlets at the base ; the horns 

 round, without annuli, striae, or ridges ; invariably placed upon 

 or at the sides of the frontals, never straight, but at first always 

 bending outwards or forwards ; a broad muzzle, almost always 

 naked ; no lachrymary sinus ; neck short ; breast and shoulder 

 deep, more or less dewlapped ; structure powerful ; vertebraj 

 of the tail often prolonged below the hough ; no inguinal pores; ^ 

 females always bearing an udder ; stature large ; manners gre- 

 garious. 



Genus Catoblepas. 



Incisors §, canines § I, molars % §, — 32. Head square, horns 

 fiat and broad at base, nearly joining on the crest of the frontals ; 

 lying outiuards, turning down mith the points uncinating up- 

 wards; muzzle broad ; nostrils as in the Ox, but provided in- 

 ternally tvith a moveable valve ; glandulous excrescence on the 

 cheeks ; a mane on the neck ; considerable beard beneath the 

 throat ; o small dewlap ; bristles round the orbits and on the 

 lips; ridge of hair on the chaffron; carcass round ; tail hairy, 

 as in the horse; legs clean and firm: gregarious. 



Catoblepas Gnu. (TheGnoo.) Adult male three feet ten 

 inches high at the shoulder, five feet six inches long ; head 

 square ; shoulder deep ; body round ; a pillow of fat on the 

 haunches ; legs long and clean : horns dark, broad upon the 

 summit of the head, tapering out sideways over the eyes, and 

 turning up into a pointed hook ; black bristly hair upon the 

 face ; a tuft of similar hair beneath each eye, concealing a^ 

 gland ; the ears are short ; white bristles surround the eye, and 

 spread on the cheeks : a vertical mane on the neck, black in the 

 centre, white at the sides ; a bushy beard on the under jaw, and 

 dark-brown fringe along throat, down to between the fore-legs ; 

 tail lined with Ion? white hair ; general colour of the fur deep 

 brown: hoofs i>ointed, blue-black; females smaller ; base of 

 liorns less approximated, covered with coarse hair. 



Inhabits the Plains of South Africa. 



Antelope Gnu, Auctor. The Gmi of English. A. Niou of 

 French Authors. Gnoo of the Hottentots. Wilde Beest 0/ //te ■ 

 Cape Colonists, ^ 



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