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tailed species were the older form. The body-colour was also 

 quite different from that shown in Smit's plate, being of the lustre- 

 less ash-brown of an immature house-mouse, with a dull or rusty 

 black dorsal stripe terminating in a point at the sacrum. The 

 cheeks instead of being smooth and ma.tching the body in colour, 

 as shown in both the above-mentioned plates, were exactly the 

 reverse. The dark colour on the outer side of the ears did not 



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Head of young Brindled Gnu. 

 From a pliotograph taken on Januarj' 7, 1911. 



quite reach the margins, as if a man had taken a brushful of 

 paint, and had given one streak to each ear, without afterwards 

 making good the deficiencies. The lower two-thirds of all four 

 legs was quite white ; Andrew Smith's plate shows this con- 

 spicuously. The whole face was very dark or black, the black 

 extending to a sharply defined width of about half an inch round 

 the lower side of the eyes. 



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