CATOBLEPAS TAURINA. 
Mammalia.— Plate XXXVIII. (Female and Young.) 
C. facie, vertice, juba, cauda, medioque pectoris subnigris ; cervice corporeque flavo-griseis ; cervice, 
scapulis laterumque partibus anterioribus fasciis verticalibus rufo-brunneis variegatis ; artibus flavo- 
brunneis ; naribus exteme valvulis instructis externe nudis ; corpore antick robusta, postice gracile 
nitide formata ; oculis rubri-aurantiis. 
Longitcdo e naso ad basin caudae 7 ped. 4 unc. ; caudse 21 unc . ; altitudo ad humeros 4 ped. 
Catoblepas Tatjrina et Gorgon, Hamilton Smith. 
Colour. Face black or blackish brown; space under the eyes rusty 
white ; sides of the head pale dusky brown, grizzled with dirty white ; upper 
lip white, its sides with a rusty tinge ; sides of the lower jaw deep black ; 
bristles of the sides of the lower jaw, and those which exist and form a fringe 
behind each angle of the mouth, deep black. The top of the head, the space 
between the horns and the long hair which fringes the neck, superiorly and 
inferiorly deep black. Sides of the neck yellowish grey, lightest towards the 
black mane, and freely variegated with vertical dark stripes, consisting of 
two colours, the one colour greyish brown, and divided by a central stripe 
of blackish brown. Shoulders, back, upper portions of side and haunches, a 
glossy colour, intermediate between brownish purple-red and yellowish grey ; 
the shoulders and anterior portions of the side variegated like the neck, but 
more sparingly, with vertical stripes of a light blackish brown colour ; the 
centre of the breast between the fore legs, a glossy reddish brown. The out- 
side of the upper half of each fore leg rusty yellowish brown, the inside light 
grey-brown ; the lower half light reddish brown. The anterior edges of thighs 
below groins rusty white, the remainder of the hinder legs rusty yellowish 
brown. The central portion of the upper or hinder part of the tail dirty 
yellowish brown, the other parts deep black. Ears externally the colour of 
the body, internally white, tinged with yellowish grey. Eyebrows blackish 
brown the hinder portion of each surmounted by a spot of yellowish brown ; 
valves’ covering nostrils black. Eyes light reddish orange ; eyelashes 
blackish brown. 
The colours above described are those most generally observed in this 
species nevertheless various modifications of them are occasionally to be 
noticed • in some the ground colour is almost a sort of drab-grey, with a 
strong lustre : the number of vertical stripes also vary in different individuals ; 
in some they are more numerous than in the specimen figured, in others 
less 
Form, &c.— The form of the head, neck, and anterior parts of the body, 
