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blance to the latter is a long shaggy 
hanging from the throat, and continued fto’’ 
the chest and part of the belly. The fot^ 
legs, hind-quarters, and tail, differ from tho®‘ 
of the horse in nothing but the divided ho'^'' 
iCl 
Half-way down the face and parallel to 
eyes runs a formidable screen of bristles, 
such length and harshness as to reserrit’^' 
combs of wire or w'halebone rather than hS'*' 
These bristles give the animal a wild ferocio'^ 
aspect, and are strongly erected when it is ^ 
cited ; for instance, at the sight of any obj®^ 
of a red colour, an antipathy which it sha^^ 
with every known species of the ox tribe. 
The editor of “ The Menageries,” (Libi'^^' 
of Entertaining Knowledge,) states on the 
thority of Mr. Pringle, that the gnu frequeO*'^' 
appears both singly and in herds among 
mountains near the Scottish settlements ** 
Bavian’s river in the Cape colony. 
“ It was one of our amusements,” says 
