YOUNG BRINDLED GNU. 



315, 



the Gardens on the 1st December last, which was brought to me 

 on the 3rd, I was struck by the great difference between her and 

 the drawing by J. Smit in P. Z. S. 1900, Plate xlviii. (facing 

 p. 771), representing another calf previously born here; that 

 figure, and one in ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa,' 

 &c., by Andrew Smith, M.D., London, 1849, No. 16, Aug. 1842, 

 Plate xxxvii. *, being, I believe, the only two existing of a Gnu 

 calf of this species. 



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Young Brindled Gnu bom in the Societj^'s Gardens on December 1, 1910. 

 From a pbotograpb taken on January 7, 1911. 



" What seemed sjiecially worthy of note was that the tail for 

 the proximal two-thirds of its length was white, as if the white- 



* The beginning of A. Smith's description of the young is quaint: "Form and 

 appeai'ance clumsy and unseemly " ! 



