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Title: Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution…
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Major A.J. Arnold [and 24 others]
Subjects: Game and game-birds Mammals
Publisher: London : Rowland Ward, Limited
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
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ut the breadth across the nostrils and round themuzzle is apparently more exaggerated than in the ordinary species. Themost distinguishing mark is the white chevron across the ridge of the nose,just below the line of the eyes. This is the most characteristic feature inthe Nyasaland gnu, and apparently is not met with in any other species ofthis antelope. It recalls a similar marking present in certain species ofBubalis and Damaliscus, such as the B. cama and Damaliscus hunteri. It is possible that the present habitat of the Nyasaland gnu is limitedto a small area in South-East Africa, partly in British and partly in Portu-guese territory, bounded on the north by Lake Nyasa, on the west by theRiver Shire, on the south by the Zambesi, and on the east by the Makua The Nyasaland Gnu 205 country of Mozambique. The places where it has been actually shot are(1) on the plains round Lake Chilwa ; (2) on the Elephant marsh nearChiromo ; (3) near Mount Chiperone. The gnu is also met with in West
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Fig. 2;.—Head of Bull Nyasaland Gnu.From Sir H. H. Johnstons British Central Africa, published by Messrs. Mcthuen. Nyasaland and on the River Luangwa, but this may be the ordinary brindled gnu. The Nyasaland gnu generally goes in small herds and frequents the plains, and not the hilly districts. H. H. Johnston. 206 Great and Small Game of Africa The White-Tailed Gnu, or Black Wildebeest {Connochates gnu) Gnu or Gnoo of the Hottentots ; Zwart Wildebeest of theCape Dutch. The white-tailed gnu is known almost universally in South Africa bythe name—wildebeest or wild ox—bestowed upon it some two hundredyears ago by the Boers when, as they moved inland from Table Bay, they firstencountered it. After the brindled gnu, or blue wildebeest, was discoveredin the early part of this century, the Dutch hunters differentiated the twospecies by christening the white-tailed gnu the zwart, or black, wildebeest,and the brindled gnu the blaauw, or blue, wildebeest. The black wilde-beest, the subje
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