96 
Gorgon fasciatus, Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 43 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 114 
(1873). 
“ Butragus corniculatus, Blyth, MS.,” Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 43 (1872). 
Connochetes gnu, Hunter, in Willoughby’s Hast Africa, p. 288. 
Connochates taurinus, Sel. List An. Z. 8. (8) p. 150 (1883) ; Flow. & Gars. Cat. Ost. 
Coll. Surg. p. 275 (1884) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 139 
(1887) ; Crawshay, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 663 (Nyasa) ; Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 336 
(1891) ; Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. 8S. Afr. p. 47, pl. ii. fig. 8 (head) (1892) ; Ward, 
Horn Meas. p. 72, fig. (horns) (1892); Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays- 
Bas, xi.) p. 170 (1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 205, fig. 42 (head) (1893). 
Catoblepas reichei, Noack, Zool. Anz. 1893, p. 153 (Upper Limpopo). 
Vernacutark Names :—Blue Wildebeest of English colonists (Selous) ; Bastard or 
Blauw Wildebeeste of Dutch colonists (Harris) ; Kokoong of Bachapins (Bur- 
chell) ; Kokoon of Bechuanas (Harris) ; Nyumbo in Zambesia (Peters & Kirk) ; 
Kaop and Baas of Namaquas and Hottentots (Harris) ; IJmbutuma of Kaffirs 
(Drummond); Inkéne-kone of Matabilis; He-vumba of Makalakas; Numbo of 
Masubias ; Minyuwmbwe of Batongas ; Unzozo of Makubas (Selous) ; Inkéne-kone 
of Swazis (Rendall). 
Height at withers about 48 inches. 
Fur short and close, with peculiar vertical lines of differently directed hairs 
on the sides of the neck and body, whence the epithet ‘ Brindled.” General 
colour dull grey, lighter and more tinged with rufous on the rump and 
limbs. Face (except a paler area between the eyes), chin, dorsal and throat 
manes deep black. Tail long, its vertebree almost reaching to the hock; its 
upper surface coloured like the rump, its under surface and the long tuft 
black. 
Lower part of face and lacrymal region heavily tufted, the hairs directed 
downwards ; the short ones of the terminal inch on the tip of the muzzle, 
however, pointed upwards. 
Skull large and heavy, with a long muzzle. That of an old male measures 
as follows :—basal length 18:1 inches, greatest breadth 7:7, muzzle to orbit 13:3. 
Horns placed so that the hinder edge of their palm is little more than 
level with the back of the skull; the palm itself comparatively low, smooth, 
small in comparison with the enormous palm of C. gnu. Beyond the palm 
the basal two-thirds of the horn points directly outwards, while the ends are 
curved upwards, forwards, and inwards. A fine pair of horns will measure 
26 or 28 inches between the outer sides of the curves of the two horns. 
