370 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



thick and powerful ; the head is shorter in proportion than 

 the former, the nose still broader, but similarly formed ; 

 the eyes, high up in the head, are protected by the over- 

 hanging of the horns ; these are placed similarly as in the 

 Gnoo, but not so broad at base, and marked with a suc- 

 cession of irregular rugosities about their root, and more 

 distant from each other ; they are black, bent down side- 

 ways behind the ears, and then turned upwards with a sud- 

 den turn, but not to the front ; the forehead ascends high 

 between their bases, and appears elevated by a thickening 

 of the frontals, making the head one foot ten inches long ; 

 the ears measure ten inches ; the tail furnished with long 

 black hair, is three feet three inches long; the neck is 

 covered with a flowing black mane, reaching half way 

 down the back ; from the centre of the forehead to the nose 

 a protuberance of a cartilaginous nature, covers the whole 

 chaffron, and is furnished with a ridge of long black hair ; 

 on each side, towards the cheek and below the inner can- 

 thus of the eye, there is a circular glandulous naked spot 

 one inch in diameter, with a spungy character, from 

 whence a white viscous humour is distilled, and beneath it, 

 is a tuft of black hair ; the chin is furnished with a black 

 bushy beard, spreading along the under-jaw, down the 

 breast and dewlap: the general colour of the animal is 

 dark ashy-gray. It possesses neither the spirit, activity, nor 

 speed of the Gnoo. This description mostly extracted from 

 Mr. Barrow's Voyage to Cochin China, is corroborated by 

 Mr. Burchell's specimen, excepting that his appears to be 

 entirely of a dark colour, almost black. The name Kokoon 

 is derived from the Booshwana dialect, which Professor 

 Lichtenstein spells Kokong : he represents the hair to have 

 a silky gloss, and the mane and tail entirely white, the 

 horns stouter, and the flexure more knotty. It is found in 

 the Caffer country, but not in the same place with the 

 Gnoo. 



