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Gray, List Mamm. B.M. p. 154 (1843); id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 2382 
(1846) ; id. List Ost. B. M. p. 59 (1847); Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handi. 
1844, p. 205 (1846); id. ibid. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. 
p. 156; Reprint, p. 80 (1848) ; Gray, Knowsl. Men. p. 19 (1850); id. P. Z.S. 
1850, p. 188; Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1853) ; Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, 
p. 182 (1869) ; Murie, P. Z.S. 1870, p. 475; Drummond, Large Game S. Afr. 
p- 425 (1875); Buckley, P. Z.S. 1876, pp. 286, 292 (distribution); Brehm, 
Thierl. iii. p. 287 (fig. animal) (1880) ; Blaauw, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (4) ii. p. 494 
(1886) (breeding in Holland); id. P. Z.S. 1889, p. 2, figs. A-D (growth of 
horns) ; Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 293 (1889). 
Catoblepas operculatus, Brookes, Cat. Mus. p. 64 (1828). 
Bos connochetes, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 392 (1844). 
Connochetes gnu, Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 119 (1852); Gerr. Cat. Bones Mamm. 
B. M. p. 243 (1862); Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) iv. p. 291 (fig. of young horns) 
(1869) ; id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 43 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 118 (1878) ; 
Scl. List Anim. Z. S. (8) p. 150 (1883) ; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (3) ix. p. 678, 
x. p. 95 (1883) (breeding in Paris); Flow. & Gars. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. p. 274 
(1884) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 1388 (1887) ; W. Sel. 
Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. u. p. 170 (1891) ; Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 336, fig. 139 
(animal) (1891) ; Ward, Horn Meas. p. 74 (1892); Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. 8. 
Afr. p. 48, pl. vil. fig. 25 (head) (1892); Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. 
Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 170 (1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 205 (1898). 
VernacuLar Names :—Gnu, White-tailed Gnu, or Black Wildebeest of English Cape 
colonists; Zwart Wildebeest of Dutch colonists; Inkonkone of Kaffirs 
(Drummond) ; Imbutuma of Zulus (Rendall). 
Size rather less than in C. taurinus. General colour dark brown or 
blackish, the upwardly-directed facial tuft, the long hairs of the nape, throat, 
and chest black. Tail very long; its thick tuft reaching nearly to the 
ground ; its colour white, except just at the base, where it is like the back. 
Skull shorter than in C. taurinus, but lengthened above, owing to the 
horn-bases being prolonged backwards to support the enormous palms of the 
horns, beyond the level of the occiput. Nasals short and broad. 
Measurements :—basal length 16°5 inches, greatest breadth 6°4, muzzle 
to orbit 9:3. 
Horns with very large longitudinally developed palms, frequently attaining 
8 inches in their greatest diameter. Proximal half of horn directed 
downwards, outwards, and forwards, then rapidly recurved, the end, which 
