PLATE IV. 
CATOBLEPAS GORGON.—THE KOKOON, OR BRINDLED GNOO. 
Bastaard and Blauw Wilde Beest of the Cape Colonists. Kokoon of the Bechuana. Kaop and Baas of the Namaquas and Hottentots. 
Generic CHAaRACTER.—Adult male about four feet six inches high at the shoulders, and nine feet eight inches in extreme 
length. Head, neck, and shoulders, extravagantly thick and powerful. Withers very elevated, forming a positive hump, and carcase 
very deep. Neck massy, but not arched. Head nearly two feet in length. Nose ridiculously aquiline, and covered with extremely 
coarse black grizzled hair. Muzzle broad, square, and flabby; bare, with ample hanging nostrils ; the latter furnished internally with a 
moveable valve. Horns black, placed horizontally on the summit of the forehead, which is prolonged between them; the points turned 
upwards, and then acutely inwards ; a few rugosities at the base forming a sort of false burr. A long flowing black mane on the neck, 
glossy, curled, and extending beyond the withers, so as to add considerably to their height, and augment the appearance of obliquity in 
the back. Chin covered with a copious bristly black beard, frizzled, and descending along the dewlap to the brisket. Crupper drooping. 
Tail equine, black, flowing, wavy, nearly three feet in length, and reaching to the heels. Ears small and pointed. Eyes small, black, 
and piercing ; mounted very high in the head. A large glandulous naked spot of an oblong form below each eye, distilling a white 
viscous humour. Legs cervine, slender, and sinewy: crooked at the knee. Hoof blue-black, small and pointed. Coat close and silky. 
General colour dark ashy grey, clouded with sepia, and variegated with obscure vertical streaks or brindles. Four or five horizontal 
stripes on each arm. 
Female precisely similar, but on,a smaller and more feminine scale. Very gregarious. Never found to the southward of the 
Orange river. Inhabits the wooded plains of the interior in vast herds. 
