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there is a wide piece of hairy scalp between them. In the adult stage 
(as shown in Plate XII.) the basal ends of the horns become enormously 
swollen (especially in the male) and nearly meet together in the middle line. 
It should be further remarked that these swollen basal portions, which are 
Fig. 15 5. Fig. 15. 
Horns of young Gnu (11 weeks old). Horns of: young Gnu (19 months old). 
(P. Z. 8. 1889, p. 2.) (REZ. 1S lS8ohip sos) 
smooth at first, become excessively corrugated and more highly developed 
when the animals get old. 
The females of the Gnu, according to Mr. Blaauw’s observation, are very 
prolific. ‘They begin to breed before they are two years old, and bear a calf 
regularly nearly every fifteen months. They seem to stand the damp and 
cold of the Dutch climate without the slightest difficulty. It would even 
appear that they are specially suitable to domestication, as the animals born 
in captivity exceed on an average the size of those freshly imported from 
South Africa. 
The White-tailed Gnu is only represented in the National Collection 
at the British Museum by a single immature female, mounted, and not 
now in good condition, besides several skulls and horns. A good wild-killed 
specimen of it, were it possible to obtain such an animal, would be, therefore, 
very acceptable. 
January, 1895. 
