It is a very harmless and inoffensive animal in spite of its ferocious aspect.” As regards the Gnus of German East Africa there is the same difficulty. Herr Matschie has kindly sent to Sclater the following notes on this subject:-- “At Berlin we have received from Oscar Neumann several skins and skulls, young and old, of the Gnu [procured during his recent journey northwards from Irangi up the east side of Lake Victoria]. “All of these have white neck-manes and chin-bunches and brownish heads and manes, but in some cases the latter are mixed with white, and the tails are of a similar colour. The body is dirty greyish brown, without a trace of bluish. One old bull shows vertical stripes on the front of the body, the hairs having been worn short. “The localities are--between Ngera and Irangi; Mount Guerui; Mgogo, north of the Manyara Lake; and further on as far as Ngare Dobasch, where they cease. “Neumann writes that on Mount Guerui and farther along he observed the two varieties living apart. On the Guerui he saw at the same time a herd of light-coloured Gnus, and a herd varying from bluish black to black, but no transitional forms.” From Mgogo, Neumann writes:--“By the six skins which I obtained [these skins have not yet arrived in Berlin] I hope to prove that there are two species, or, at any rate, varieties of Gnus--one lilac-black grey, and the other bright yellowish brown. On the Mangoto natron-swamp they kept apart. Here in Mgogo the black form predominates, so that it seems to be the more northern. Of two young examples of about the same age, judging from their horns, one has a black forehead, and the other has two white spots in front of the eyes. “Von Höhnel and Count Teleki found only grey-black Gnus on Mount Maeru, but these had the neck-manes striped with white and black. On the Naschiri Lake, Teleki first met with a pure white-maned specimen.” The woodcut of the skull of this Antelope (fig. 14, p. 106) is taken from one of Mr. Jackson’s specimens in the British Museum. _January, 1895._ [Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XII. _J. Smit del & lith._ _Hanhart imp_. The White-tailed Gnu. CONNOCHÆTES GNU. _Published by R. H. Porter_.] 18. THE WHITE-TAILED GNU. CONNOCHÆTES GNU (ZIMM.). [PLATE XII.] _Bos gnou_, =Zimm.= Spec. Zool. Geogr. p. 372 (1777). _Antilope gnou_, =Zimm.= Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 102 (1780); =Bodd.= Elench. Anim. p. 138 (1785); =Schr.= Säug. pl. cclxxx. (animal) (1787).