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Show 1896.] GNU OF NTASALAND. 617 (C. t. albo-jubatus) it differed in having the mane black, as in C. t. typicus. Mr. Richard Crawshay, C.M.Z.S., made the following remarks on this subject:- "This Gnu from British Central Africa is most interesting, especially to naturalist-sportsmen like myself who have visited the country. " The existence of a G n u in the Protectorate has, of course, long been known: for instance on the Mlanji Plains, to the S.E. of Matope, on the Upper Shiri, there are a few; and to the W . of Lake Nyasa, in the Loangwa R. valley, which drains into the Upper Zambesi, there are also some. Flitherto, however, only two specimens have been shot by Europeans, so far as I know. These are the one of which we have this very pretty drawing ; and one other, also a fine male, lately shot by Mr. Carl Wiese on the left bank of the Ruo R., not far from Chiromo, on the Lower Shiri R. Passing through Chiromo, about two months ago, I was shown the skull and magnificent long silky tail of this G n u of Mr. Wiese's : both are in Mr. Hillier's possession at Chiromo. " The specimen now forwarded by Sir H . H . Johnston was shot, if I recollect, rightly, by Mr. Macdonald, of the Administration, on the Mlanji Plain. I think he told m e he saw three in all-a bull, a cow, and a calf; he secured the bull the second time he saw it by a long shot. " During thirteen years' residence, off and on, in what is now the Protectorate, I have never myself actually seen Gnus; the nearest I have been to them is to see their spoor, about four or five miles out from Matope, on the Upper Shiri R. " The tribes round the southern half of Lake Nyasa all know the Gnu by name: some people that I have heard describe the animal say it has horns like a Buffalo. " The Anyanja know it as ' Nyumbu'; the Yaos (Ajawa) as 1 Sindi,' though I did not know this when I wrote m y paper on the Antelopes of Nyasa six years ago. Intermixing as they do very much with the Anyanja, the Yaos often use Manganja words, especially with Europeans, who mostly speak Manganja. " The Taos of Cape Maclear at one time used the tail-hairs of the Gnu to string beads on their prettily worked hair-combs; I think I must have some of these combs by m e even now. "Being traders and great travellers, these Yaos, I imagine, have accompanied Arab caravans on their journeys into the Lower Loangwa valley, and got their Gntirtails there. During August and September last year I made a journey into the Upper Loangwa valley, seven days or so S.W. from Karonga. There I saw a great deal of game, but no Gnus, though the Wasenga, I found, are well acquainted with this animal. "They told m e I should find Gnus two or three days to the S. of where I then was, at Msongozi's ; they said I should see plenty in the neighbourhood of Kambombo's town. Wishing very much mdeed to verify this statement and to secure a specimen of the PEOC. ZOOL. Soc-1896, No. X L . 40 |