52 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



1901 ; Blaauw, Zool. Garten, vol. xlvi, p. 6, 1905 ; Pococh, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 904 ; Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix, 

 No. 8, p. 3, 1912. 

 Bubalus gnu, Owen, Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, p. 626, 1868. 



Gnu, or Wildebeest. 



The type species. 



Typical locality Cape Colony. 



Size relatively small; shoulder-height about 3 feet 

 10 inches. Back nearly straight, owing to elevation of 

 croup ; hairs of face-tuft directed upwards ; a fringe on chin 

 and between fore-legs, but not on throat. Horns directed at 

 first forwards and downwards, but finally curving upwards 

 (in young animals represented only by these upright tips). 

 General colour dark brown or blackish, with the long hairs 

 of the head and body black ; tail whitish, except near the 

 root, where it is coloured like the body. Skull with 

 relatively short and wide nasals and no broad ascending 

 process to premaxillse; basal length 15^ inches, maximum 

 width 6| inches. Dorsal vertebrae 14. Good horns measure 

 from 23 to 24 inches along the front curve, with a palm- 

 breadth of from 7i to 8^, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 

 11^ to 19^ inches. 



The range formerly included Africa south of the Limpopo ; 

 but the species is now to a great extent exterminated in 

 the wild state. 



96. 11. 28. 5. Skin mounted, and skull. Mahemfontein, 

 Orange Eiver Colony ; collected by F. C. Selous, Esq. 



Purchased, 1896. 



96. 11. 28. 6. Skin, mounted, female. Same locality and 

 collector. Also skull. Same history. 



96. 11. 28. 7. Skin, immature. Same locality and col- 

 lector. , Sa7ne history. 



645, a. Skin, immature female, mounted. S. Africa. 



Old collection. 



46. 7. 2. 5. Skin, mounted, young. S. Africa. 



Purchased, 1846. 



2. 7. 18. 1. Skin, mounted, female. Orange Eiver 

 Colony. Presented hy C. D. Rudd, Esq., 1902. 



2. 7. 18. 2. Skin, mounted, young. Same locality. 



Same history. 



