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back of neck, withers, and a patch behind the forearm dark brown. 

 A well marked white hip-stripe. Arms and legs sandy ; tips of 

 toes brown. Tail black above ; white below and at the extreme 

 tip. 



Dimensions. Head and body about twenty-eight inches ; tail 

 about fifteen inches. 



Habitat. Northern Queensland. 



References. Thomas, B. M. Catal. p. 44, pis. viii. fig. 1 (upper 

 view of skull), x. fig. 6 (fourth premolar), and xi. fig 1 (rhinarium) 

 Gray, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 220, pi. xxv. 



9. MACROPUS AGILIS, Gould sp. (1841). 

 Agile Wallaby. 



Size medium ; form rather stout and heavy. Rhinarium partly 

 hairy between the nostrils. Fur short and coarse. General color 

 above dark grizzled sandy, below white or grayish-white. Face- 

 markings inconspicuous. An ill-defined dark nuchal stripe. Ears 

 very short, the interior and base white or yellowish, the back 

 dark sandy, tipped and edged anteriorly with black. Flanks 

 paler than the back. A dark brown mark from the nape to 

 behind the elbow. White hip-stripe well marked. Arms and 

 legs white or light sandy-gray. Tail long; its proximal third sandy; 

 the rest whitish, extreme tip blackish. 



Dimensions. Head and body about thirty-seven inches ; tail 

 about thirty-four inches. 



Habitat. North Queensland ; Northern Territory ; South- 

 eastern New Guinea. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 42, pis. v. fig. 7 (rhinarium), 

 vii. fig. 1 (upper view of skull), and x. fig. 5 (fourth premolar) ; 

 Gould, Mamm. Austr. ii. pis. xxiv., xxv. 



10. MACROPUS IRMA, Jourdain, sp. (1837). 



(Halmaturus manicatus, Gould.) 



Black-gloved. "Wallaby. 



Size small ; form slender and graceful. Rhinarium partly 

 hairy between the nostrils. Fur thick and soft. General color 

 above dark bluish-gray ; below pale gray tinged with yellow or 

 rufous. Face markings distinct; two dark whisker-marks; cheek- 

 stripe yellow, continued backwards to the ear. Ears long, their 

 backs and the crown of the head black ; a dark nuchal stripe ; 

 inside of ears yellow, with a prominent black tip. A pale incon- 

 spicuous hip-stripe. Arms and outside of legs gray; hands, feet, 

 and front of legs bright yellow ; fingers and toes pure black. 

 Proximal fourth and sides of tail gray ; distal three-fourths above 

 and below with a well defined crest of stiff black hairs ; extreme 

 tip sometimes white. 



