MAMMALIA. 12{ 



Skeleton. S. Africa. From the Zoological Society's Collection. 

 Skull, with horns. S. Africa. 



ICON. 



Drawing of the head in colours by Rymsdyk, 1775. Bank. 

 Icon. ined. B. M. t. 56. 



Bos Connochsetus. G. Forster, Icon. ined. B. M. i. 1. 19, 19 a, 

 20-28. 



The Antilope Gnu of Burchell, H. Smith, F. Cuvier and Harris, 

 " and the Kokong of Lichtenstein," has a white tail and mane. 

 Burchell and H. Smith have given the name of A. taurina to the 

 specimens which have those parts black. When young they are 

 fulvous, and become black as they reach maturity. The speci- 

 men of the Kokoon in the Museum of the London Missionary 

 Society (Blomfield Street, Moorfields), named by Colonel H. 

 Smith Kokoon (Cat. taurina, Griff. A. K. iv. 369, v. 368), is an 

 adult common Gnu, C. Gnu ( Var. mane and tail white ; Kokona, 

 Licht. Trav. Cape), and his description of Dr. Burchell' s speci- 

 men in the British Museum agrees with the Gnu in having the 

 ridge of hair on the face. Indeed, Dr. Burchell (Travels, ii. 278) 

 appears to consider the difference between the Gnu and A. tau- 

 rina, that the former has a white and the latter a black tail. 

 Dr. Andrew Smith (Illust. Zool. S. A.) has regarded the C. tau- 

 rina and C. Gorgon as the same species. Dr. Sundevall, in his 

 Synopsis, has, by mistake, given the name of C. taurina to the 

 Gorgon, or Brindled Gnu (C. Gorgon, H. Smith). 



b. Nose with smooth hair. Chest not maned. 30. Gorgon. 



2. CONNOCHETES GORGON. The GORGON or BRINDLED GNU. 



Face convex, smooth, covered with hair lying towards the 

 nose. Chest not maned. Black, varied and striped with grey. 

 Half-grown blackish; crown grey. Young dark grey; face, 

 gular and nuchal mane, and end of tail, black. 



Catoblepas Gorgon, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 371. t., v. 887 ; Gray, 

 List Mamm. B. M. 154; Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1846, 232; 

 Knowsley Menag. 20. t. ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 13.9. 



Antilope Boselaphi Gorgon, Fischer, Syn. 643. 



Antilope Gnu var., Smut, Mam. Cap. 94. 



Gorgon fasciatus, Gray, Knowsley Menag. t. 



Bastard Wilde Beest, Dutch at Cape. 



Kokoon or Brindled Gnoo, Harris, S. Africa, t. 4, and head. 



Catoblepas Taurina, Sundevall, Pecor a', not Burchellnor H. Smith. 



Hob. S. Africa; Cape of Good Hope. 



Male. From the South African Museum. 



