Skull broad and heavy, not specially elongated; ends of premaxillæ expanded. Horns present in both sexes; thickened and expanded at their bases; starting outwards or downwards for their proximal halves, their points abruptly curved upwards. _Range of the Genus._ South and East Africa. This genus, that of the curious and eccentric-looking animals known as Gnus, contains two very different sections, almost worthy of being considered distinct genera. One of these consists of two closely allied forms, the Brindled and White-maned Gnu, and the other of the White-tailed or “Common” Gnu, the most peculiar and specialized of all. Their differences may be summarized as follows:-- A. Hairs of facial tuft pointing downwards. Horns directed first outwards and then upwards. Tail black. _a._ Throat-mane black 1. _C. taurinus_. _b._ Throat-mane whitish 2. _C. albojubatus_. B. Hairs of facial tuft pointing upwards. Horns directed first downwards, and then recurved upwards. Tail white 3. _C. gnu_. [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XI. _Wolf del. Smit lith._ _Hanhart imp._ The Brindled Gnu. CONNOCHÆTES TAURINUS. _Published by R. H. Porter_] 16. THE BRINDLED GNU. CONNOCHÆTES TAURINUS (BURCH.). [PLATE XI.] _Antilope gnu_, var., =Licht.= Mag. nat. Freund. Berlin, vi. p. 166 (?). _Kokoon_, =Daniell=, Afr. Scenery, p. 37 (1820). _Antilope taurina_, =Burchell=, Travels, ii. p. 278 (1824); =id.= List Quadr. pres. to B. M. p. 7 (1825) (Maadji Mts.); =Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 476 (1829); =Schinz=, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 447 (1845); =Gieb.= Säug. p. 299 (1859). _Catoblepas taurinus_, =Ham. Sm.= Griff. Cuv. An. K. iv. p. 369, v. p. 368 (1827); =Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 642 (1830); =Smuts=, Enum. Mamm. Cap. p. 94 (1832); =A. Sm.= S. Afr. Quart. J. ii. p. 233 (1834); =Less.= Compl. Buff. x. p. 305 (1836); =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 154 (1843); =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1844, p. 205 (1846); =id.= ibid. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 156; Reprint, p. 80 (1848); =A. Sm.= Ill. Zool. S. Afr. pl. xxxviii. (♀ & yg.) (1849) =Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 182 (1869); =Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 290, fig. (animal) (1880).