MAMMALIA. 119 



A. Caama and bubalus, &c., to the Gnus 2 ' (p. 139); but in neither 

 is there the slightest idea of the character which unites them to- 

 gether as a natural group. 



A. Equine Antelopes. Muzzle broad, depressed, spongy, bristly j 

 nostrils large, covered with a large spongy valve. 



Equine Antelopes (Antilopese Equinae), Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. 



H. 1846, 232-, Knowsley Menag. 19; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 



138. 



Catoblepas et Damalis (et acronotus), H. Smith, G. A. K. 

 Damalidse, part., J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64. 



29. CONNOCHETES. 



Horns bent down and outwards on the sides, broad at the 

 base, bent up at the tip. Nose broad, dilated, spongy, bristly. 

 Nostrils large, operculated. Tail elongate, bushy, hairy from the 

 base. Hoofs compressed in front. Intermaxillaries elongate, 

 extending to the nasal, the front half expanded and flattened, 

 the front part much dilated, flattened and sharp edged. Nose- 

 hole rather large. Frontal bone much produced behind. Fe- 

 males : teats 4. Skull : " the general characters the same as in 

 Alcelaphus ; but the depression before the orbit less marked ; 

 the occiput rather less prolonged, and its base, together with the 

 auditory bulla, broader." Turner. 



Hab. S. Africa. 



Connochetes, Licht. Berl. Mag. vi., 1814. 



Catoblepas, Plin. ; Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821 ; H. Smith, 

 Griffith A. K. v. 182; Fischer, Syn. ii. 625; Gray, Ann. Sf 

 Mag. N. H. 1847, 232; Knowsley Menag. ; Turner, P. Z. S. 

 1850; Cuvier, Reg. Anim. ed. 2. i. 2/4. 



Catablepas, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64. 



Boselaphus (type), Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, 75. 



Bos, sp., Forster MSS. 



This genus, which has all the characters of the true Antelopes, 



in the slenderness and proportion of the leg-bones, has been 



placed with the Oxen by Forster, and in the Bovine section by 



Professor Sundevall. Lichtenstein's name has undoubted priority 



of publication. 



a. Nose with a crest of reversed hair. Chest maned. Catoblepas. 



1. CONNOCHETES GNU. The GNU or KOKOON. 

 Nose with a tuft of reversed hair. Chest maned. Brown or 



