Lower part of face and lacrymal region heavily tufted, the hairs directed downwards; the short ones of the terminal inch on the tip of the muzzle, however, pointed upwards. Skull large and heavy, with a long muzzle. That of an old male measures as follows:--basal length 18·1 inches, greatest breadth 7·7, muzzle to orbit 13·3. Horns placed so that the hinder edge of their palm is little more than level with the back of the skull; the palm itself comparatively low, smooth, small in comparison with the enormous palm of _C. gnu_. Beyond the palm the basal two-thirds of the horn points directly outwards, while the ends are curved upwards, forwards, and inwards. A fine pair of horns will measure 26 or 28 inches between the outer sides of the curves of the two horns. _Hab._ Eastern Africa, from the Vaal River northwards through Zambesia, Nyasaland, and German East Africa to the north of Kilimanjaro. The Brindled Gnu, although, as it seems, previously observed by Lichtenstein in Bechuanaland, was first actually obtained by the celebrated African traveller Burchell, who went far into the interior of the country in 1811 and 1812. In June of the latter year, when encamped at the great Khosi Fountain in Bechuanaland, as he tells us in the second volume of his ‘Travels,’ an example of a “new species of Antelope” was brought in by his hunters. Being well acquainted with the White-tailed Gnu of the Cape Colony, Burchell at once recognized it as a second species of that genus. Burchell pointed out its differences from its southern representative very clearly, and added a scientific Latin diagnosis in a footnote. He called it _Antilope taurina_, because its horns resembled those of an Ox more than those of any other Antelope. The half-bred Hottentots, he observes, give it the name of the _Bastaard Wildebeest_, while the Bechuanas call it _Kokūn_ or _Kokūng_. Altogether Burchell obtained five specimens of this Antelope, one of which (a female), shot in the following October near the Maadji Mountains, was, as we learn from his “List of Quadrupeds,” presented to the British Museum in 1817, and seems to have formed the basis of his technical description. Two years previous to the actual publication of Burchell’s description, however, the Brindled Gnu had been figured in Daniell’s ‘Sketches of African Scenery’ under the name of the “Kokoon.” In 1827 Major Charles Hamilton-Smith, F.R.S., in Griffith’s edition of Cuvier’s ‘Animal Kingdom,’ besides recognizing _C. gnu_ and _C. taurina_, added a presumed third species of the genus, which he based on a specimen then exhibited in the “Museum of the Missionary Society of London.” It is quite clear, however, from the description and figure that Hamilton-Smith’s _C. gorgon_ is identical with Burchell’s previously described _Antilope taurina_, and that the latter term should take precedence, although many naturalists have preferred to use Hamilton-Smith’s name for this species. [Illustration: Fig. 13.