MACROPUS. 55 



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

 about twenty-nine. 



Habitat. Southern parts of West Australia. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 40, pi. x. fig. 6 (rhinarium); 

 Gould, Marnm. Austr. ii. pis. xx., xxi. 



11. MACROPUS PARRYI, Bennett (1834). 

 Parry's "Wallaby. 



Size medium ; form slender and graceful. Fur soft, almost woolly. 

 General color above clear gray with a bluish tinge ; below, chin 

 white, chest, belly, and inner sides of limbs grayish- white. Face 

 markings distinct. Two dark whisker-marks. Cheek-stripe pure 

 white, passing backwards to beneath the eye. A white nuchal 

 stripe reaching to half-way down the neck, with a darker mark on 

 each side of it. Ears long, white inside, basal half and extreme 

 tips of outside brown, the rest white. Arms and legs gray, hands 

 and feet becoming nearly or quite black on the digits. Tail very 

 long, pale gray ; an inconspicuous black or gray crest below the 

 tip. 



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

 about thirty-two inches. 



Habitat. Mountain Ranges of New South Wales and Queens- 

 land. 



References. Thomas, B. M. Catal. p. 39, pi. x. fig. 4 (fourth 

 premolar] ; Gould, Mamm. Austr. ii. pis. xii., xiii. 



12. MACROPUS DORSALIS, Gray, sp. (1837). 

 Black-striped "Wallaby. 



Size medium; forms light and delicate. Rhinarium wholly naked. 

 General color gray ; rich rufous on the fore-quarters ; below 

 white or grayish-white. A narrow black line from the occiput to 

 the centre of the back. Face-markings nearly obsolete ; upper 

 lip white ; a white spot at the base of the outer edge of the ear. 

 Back of ears rufous darkening towards the tips. A distinct white 

 hip-stripe, Arms rufous ; legs gray ; fingers and toes becoming 

 black towards their tips. Claw on the central hind toe shorter 

 than usual. Tail gray ; the extreme tip black. 



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

 about twenty-four inches. 



Habitat. Interior of New South Wales and Queensland. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 37, pis. v. fig. 5 (rhinarium) 

 and x. fig. 3 (Jourth premolar); Gould, Mamm. Austr. ii. pis. 

 xxvi., xxvii. 



