BRINDLED GNU 



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clearly marked in the lighter -coloured individuals. In the typical 

 race the whole front of the face, together with the tuft of long hair on 

 the forehead, the mane, and the fringe on the throat, are black ; and 

 there is no light chevron on the face. The maximum horn-lengths 

 are 33a an d 3 2 ^ inches. Calves have a shorter coat than those of the 

 southern species, with a dark stripe along the whole length of the neck, 

 back, and loins, the colour being elsewhere fawn. 



FIG. 36. Head of Nyasa Brindled Gnu. 



Although Gordon Gumming and some of the other early travellers 

 refer to the fact that a few brindled gnus occasionally crossed the 

 Orange river into the northern districts of Cape Colony, that river 

 formed in the main the southern limit of the distributional area of the 

 species, which extends thence through eastern Africa, at least as far 

 north as the equator, or the northern shore of the Victoria Nyanza. 

 On the opposite side of the continent the northern range embraces 

 Benguela, where these antelopes are still numerous, as they also were 



