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Habitat. Tasmania. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 34 ; Gould, Mamni. Austr. 

 ii. pis. xvi., xvii. 



15. MACROPUS UALABATUS, Lesson & Garnot, sp. (1826). 

 Common Scrub or Black-tailed Wallaby. 



Size medium ; form rather stout. Fur long, thick, and rather 

 coarse. General color dark rufous-gray, the rufous predominating 

 behind. Crown of head, round base of ear, outside of elbows, 

 chin, chest, and belly pale rufous or yellow, varying in extent and 

 intensity. Face-markings vague and indistinct. Ears short, 

 colored like the top of head. A dark mark behind the elbow. 

 Hands and feet brown, becoming black on the toes. Tail black. 



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

 about twenty-six inches. 



Habitat. Coast regions of New South Wales and Victoria. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 30, pis. ix. lig. 1 (upper 

 incisors), and x. fig. 1 (fourth premolarj ; Gould, Mamm. Austr. 

 ii. pis. xxi., xxii. 



15a. M. UALABATUS, var. APICALIS, Giinther (1874). 



Queensland Scrub "Wallaby. 



Size and colors like those of the typical variety, but the fur 

 shorter and coarser, and the markings more sharply defined. 

 Brown mark on side of face continued through eye nearly to the 

 ear, sharply separated from white whisker-mark. Rufous of lower 

 back richer and brighter. Tail generally C?) tipped with white. 



Dimensions. As in typical form. 

 Habitat. North-eastern Queensland. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 34; Giinther, P.Z.S., 

 1874, p. 653, pi. Ixxvii. 



16. MACROPUS MAGNUS, Owen (1874). 



Owen's Kangaroo. 

 External characters unknown. 

 Habitat. Northern Territory. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 27, pi. vi. figs. 1 (roof of 

 mouth), and 2 (two posterior molars ); Owen, Phil. Trans. 1874, 

 p. 247, pi. xx. figs. 12, 19, and 26 f teeth J. 



Note. This animal, which is only known from a single skull, 

 may prove to be identical with the almost equally little-known 

 J/. isabellinus, of North-west Australia, of which only an imperfect 

 skin is to be found in any Museum. 



