372 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



South Africa, under the name of Wilde-beest, or Gnoo, but 

 we hear that it is distinguished by the Colonists, as the 

 Bastert Wilde-beast, or spurious Gnoo, and may be re- 

 garded as the Baas of the Namaquas. We have named 

 this species, provisionally, Gorgon, because that deno- 

 mination was also bestowed upon the Catoblepas, ac- 

 cording to Ccel. Rhodius, as quoted by Gesner. 



The specimen from which we drew our description is 

 not sufficiently accessible to ascertain the sex, but it ap- 

 pears to be a male, and the brindles are not now very 

 distinguishable, though clear when our drawing was 

 taken. 



In Mr. Brooks's collection, there is a horn of a shining 

 black colour, thirteen inches and a quarter long, the base 

 nearly flat, very open, the surface forming a triangular 

 figure, surmounted by the rounded part, which bends back, 

 and then forwards ; the flat triangular part, full six inches 

 across, is open, and must have been placed on the base of 

 the osseous core ; it is at first smooth, where the hair 

 covered it, and then suddenly rugous, with heavy confluent 

 protuberances and pearls for the space of about four inches 

 and a half, the rest converging rapidly to a round and 

 smooth point. It is from the left side of the head and 

 cannot be assigned to any of the above three species, nor 

 to the Musk-Ox ; it may therefore be designated by the 

 name of C. Brooksii, the celebrated anatomist, to whom it 

 belongs, and for the present be joined to this genus. 



The Genus Ovibos. 



North America produces animals which resemble the 

 last genus in so many particulars, that it would perhaps be 

 more advisable to constitute Ovibos into a subordinate 

 group of Catoblepas, wanting indeed the mane and beard, 

 but equally slender in the limbs, and exhibiting some cha- 



