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THE HARTEBEEST. 



The color of the ordinary Gnoo (Connochetes Gmi] is brownish-black, sometimes 

 with a blue-gray wash. The mane is black, with the exception of the lower part, which 

 is often grayish-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 BRINDLED 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 gray. 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 

 Gumming in a very curious manner. The animal had contrived to hitch one of his 

 forelegs over his horns, and being thus incapacitated from running, was easily inter- 

 cepted 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. Alcephalus Caama. 



OF 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 color is a grayish-brown, diversified by 



