24 till: sELors COLLECTION. 



GNU, on WILDEBEEST. 



CONXOCHJETES GNU. 



Bos gnou, Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. p. 372, 1772 ; misspelt. 

 Antilope gnu, Gmelin, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 189, 1788. 

 Gonnochsetes gnu, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 119, 1852 ; Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. iv. p. 291, 1869; Cat. Ruminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 43, 1872 ; Hand-List Euminants Brit. Mus. p. 113, 1873. 



In the members of this germs the horns are not united in a 

 common pedicle, being more as in the Buffalo with an expanded 

 basal region. A well-developed mane is present on the neck. The 

 South African Gnu is distinguished from the other members of 

 the genus by its white tail, short snout, large orbits, and the shape 

 of the horns, which in the adult curve forward and downward and 

 then upward and backward. There is no marked shoulder hump, 

 but the hind quarters are very prominent. Height at shoulder 

 about 46 inches. Dorsal vertebrae fourteen in number. Good 

 horns measure from 23 to 26f inches on the front curve. 



Best horn measurement (No. 19. 7. 15. Ill) : length over 

 curve 26f ; width of palm in straight line 7-^ ; spread from tip to 



tip 14 J. 



Type locality, Cape Colony ; formerly this species was widely 



distributed over Africa south of the Limpopo, but is now practically 

 exterminated in the wild state. 



84-85 19.7.15.109-110. May, 1895. Mahemfontein, Orange 



Eiver Colony. 



86 19. 7. 15. 111. Skull and horns. Caledon, Cape Colony. 



87-92 19.7.15.112-117 (sexes not recorded). Horns. Orange 



Eiver Colony. 



BKINDLED GNU, OB BLUE WILDEBEEST. 



CONXOCHJETES TAUltlXUS TAUBINUS. 



Antilope taurina, Burchell, Travels in S. Africa, vol. ii. p. 278, -1824; 



List Quadr. presented to Brit. Mus. p. 7, 1825. 

 Catoblepas tanrinus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 369, 



vol. v. p. 368, 1827. 

 Catoblepas gorgon, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 371, 



vol. v. p. 369, 1827. 



Connochsetes gorgon, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 121, 1852. 

 Gorgon fasciatus, Gray, Cat. Euminants Brit. Mus. p. 43, 1872; Hand- 



Liet Euminants Brit. Mus. p. 114, 1873. 



