“Breadth of skull at forehead, ♂ 100 millim., ♀ 80; length of skull from base of horn to upper lip, along the side in a straight line: ♂ 430, ♀ 403 millim.
“Colour of hair fulvous fawn, much richer on the back, where there are also some darker spots, which may be stains or natural; below very much paler. Chin blackish, tip of tail black. The male is brighter and darker in colour than the female. There are also on the back some patches with longer, thicker, almost whitish-buff hair, perhaps remains of the winter fur.”
Genus CONNOCHÆTES. (Vol. I. p. 93.)
Connochætes taurinus johnstoni.
Connochætes taurinus johnstoni, Scl. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 616, pl. xxvii.
Under this subspecific name Sclater has shortly described and figured the local form of the Brindled Gnu that occurs on the plains of the Shiré Highlands, Nyasaland. The difference consists mainly in the generally brownish colour of the body, and the broad whitish band across the face beneath the eyes. The mane is black or blackish as in C. taurinus typicus, not white as in C. albojubatus.
Some good field-notes on the same animal by Mr. R. Crawshay are appended to Sclater’s remarks.
Genus CEPHALOPHUS. (Vol. I. p. 121.)
Cephalophus hecki.
Cephalophus hecki, Matsch. SB. Ges. nat. Freund. Berlin, 1897, p. 158.