M ammalia.— P la t e XXXVIII. ( F em a le a nd Y o u n g .)
C. facie, vertice, jub&, cauda, medioque pectoris subnigris; cervice eorporeque flavo-griseis; cervice,
scapulis Iaterumque partibus anterioribus fasciis verticalibus rufo-brunneis variegatis; artibus flavo-
brunneis; naribus exteme valvulis instructis externe niidis; corpore aiitick robusta, posticfe gracile
Bitide format^.; oculis rubri-aurantiis.
L ongitudo e naso ad basin caudse 7 ped. 4 unc. ; camdee 21 u n c .a ltitu d o ad humeros 4 ped.
Catoblepas Taurina et Gorgon, Hamilton Smith.
C o lo ur . 1 Face black or blackish brownspace under the eyes rusty
white; sides of the head pale dusky brown, grizzled with dirty white; upper
lip white, its sides with a rusty tinge ; sides of the lower jaw deep black ;
bristles of the sides of the lower jaw, and those which exist and form a fringe
behind each angle of the mouth, deep black. The top of the head, the space
between the horns and the long hair which fringes the neck, superiorly and
inferiorly deep black. Sides of the neck yellowish grey, lightest towards the
black mane, and freely variegated with vertical dark stripes, consisting of
two colours, the one colour greyish brown, and divided by a central stripe
of blackish brown. Shoulders, back, upper portions of side and haunches, a
glossy colour, intermediate between brownish purple-red and yellowish grey ;
the shoulders and anterior portions of the side variegated like the neck, but
more sparingly, with vertical stripes of a light blackish brown colour; the
centre of the breast between the fore legs, a glossy reddish brown. The outside
of the upper half of each fore leg rusty yellowish brown, the inside light
grey-brown ; the lower half light reddish brown. The anterior edges of thighs
below groins rusty white, the remainder of the hinder legs rusty yellowish
brown. The central portion of the upper or hinder part of the tail dirty
yellowish brown, the other parts deep black. Ears externally the colour of
the body, internally white, tinged with yellowish grey. Eyebrows blackish
brown, the hinder portion of each surmounted by a spot of yellowish brown ;
valves covering nostrils black. Eyes light reddish orange; eyelashes
blackish brown.
The colours above described are those most generally observed in this
species, nevertheless various modifications of them are occasionally to be
noticed; in some the ground colour is almost a sort of drab-grey, with a
strong lustre : the number of vertical stripes also vary in different individuals ;
in some they are more numerous than in the specimen figured, in others
less.
F o rm , &c.—The form of the head, neck, and anterior parts of the body,