368 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



then becoming round, turn down forwards over the eyes 

 and sweeping; round with their points vertical ; they are 

 smooth, sharp, and of a blue-black colour, but paler, ex- 

 cepting at the tips, in old subjects. Strong bristly hairs of 

 a black colour, directed backwards and sideways, extend 

 over the face ; beneath each eye there is a large tuft of 

 similar hair ; long white bristles surround the mouth, and 

 other white bristles form a star-like circle round the eyes ; 

 a vertical mane, about four inches high, reaches from the 

 back of the horns to the middle of the withers ; in the 

 centre it is black, but the lateral hairs are white, pro- 

 ducing the effect of a white mane with a black edge ; a 

 hard bushy beard, lines the whole under-jaw ; a dark brown 

 ridge of long hair passes down the edge of the throat and 

 dewlap, between the fore-legs to the end of the sternum ; 

 the tail is chiefly adorned with long white hairs, reaching 

 to the heels, and ascending at the sides to near its root ; 

 the hair of the cheeks, sides of the neck, body, and legs, is 

 smooth and close, of a deep brown, but in the female more 

 ashy ; the ears are not long or open ; brown in colour ; the 

 hoofs are pointed and blue-black ; the females are smaller 

 than the male, their horns not so broad at their origin, nor 

 so close together; the hair between them turning down 

 and meeting that on the chaffron between the eyes ; they 

 have four mammas. 



In old males the white hairs gradually disappear till 

 all the bristles are black. The calf is at first pure white, 

 with the hair on the face straight, and radiating round 

 the eyes ; soon after, or perhaps at the birth, two black 

 prominences, rather distant on the head, shew the inci- 

 pient horns ; the muzzle is naked and black, We are, 

 however, not certain that these characters apply to this 

 or to the next species, but it is probable that both in this 

 respect are alike; the dung of the Gnoo is like that of a 

 cow. 



