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II. The Antelopes of the Desert. Nostrils bearded within 
beneath, operculated, far apart; horns on the frontal ridge ; nose sub- 
cervine, with a small muffle ; legs rather stout; tail elongate ; hoofs 
rather large. 
4. The Equine Antelopes have a very depressed, spongy and 
bristly muzzle. 
28. Catoblepas, Gray; Connochcetes, Licht.; Bos, Forster. 
Horns bent down on the sides, recurved at the tip; nose very 
broad, dilated, spongy, bristly ; nostrils operculated; tail elongate, 
bushy, hairy from the base; hoofs compressed in front; teats 
four. 
This genus has been placed with the Oxen by Forster, and in the 
Bovine group of genera by Sundevall, but it has all the characters of 
the true Antelopes in the proportion of its leg-bone. 
* Nose with a crest of reversed hair ; chest maned . Catoblepas. 
1. Catoblepas Gnu. The Gnu or Kokoon. 
Nose with a tuft of reversed hair; chest maned. Brown or 
blackish; the lower part of the mane and tail often paler or white. 
Young : pale fulvous ; nasal, gular, and nuchal mane black. 
Antilope Gnu , Sparm. ; Zimmerm.-— Bos Connochcetes , Forster.— 
Antilope taurina, Burchell.— C. Gnu, H. Smith.— C. taurina , H. 
Smith, not A. Smith.— Gnu, F. Cuvier, Mam. Lith. t. ; Harris, 
AY. A. A. t. 1 .—Catoblepas Gnu, Gray, Knows. Menag. 19. t. 19. 
f. 1, young. 
Var. Mane and tail black. 
A. taurina, Burchell; A. Smith. 
Inhabits S. Africa. Brit. Mus. 
The A. Gnu of Burchell, H. Smith, F. Cuvier and Harris, “ and 
the Kokong of Lichtenstein,” has a white tail and mane. Burchell 
and H. Smith have given the name of A. taurina to the specimens, 
which have those parts black. When young they are fulvous, and 
become black as they reach maturity. The specimen of the Kokoon 
in the Museum of the London Missionary Society (Blomfield Street, 
Moorfields), named by Colonel FI. Smith Kokoon ( Cat . taurina, 
Griff. A. K. iv. 369, v. 368), is an adult common Gnu, C. Gnu 
{Var. mane and tail white ; Kokong, Licht. Trav. Cape), and his 
description of Dr. Burchell’s specimen in the British Museum agrees 
with the Gnu, in having the ridge of hair on the face. Indeed Dr. 
Burchell (Travels, ii. 278) appears to consider the difference between 
the Gnu and A. taurina , that the former has a white and the latter 
a black tail. Dr. Andrew Smith (Illust. Zool. S. A.) has regarded 
the C. taurina and C. Gorgon as the same species. Dr. Sundevall, 
in his Synopsis, has, by mistake, given the name of C. taurina to the 
Gorgon, or Brindled Gnu {C. Gorgon, H. Smith). 
