THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circum vitreos considite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hlc carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nympha? Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



Parthenii Ec\.\. 



No. 62. SEPTEMBER 1842. 



I. — Description of two new species of Kangaroos from Western 

 Australia. By John Gould, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



JV1« PRIESS, who has just returned from Western Australia, 

 where he has been for some years assiduously engaged in 

 collecting specimens of natural history, having kindly placed 

 in my hands two new and highly interesting species of Kan- 

 garoos, I hasten to avail myself of the pages of your valuable 

 Journal, in order to make them known to the scientific world 

 as quickly as possible. 



The first of these new kangaroos is a fine large animal, 

 which in general appearance closely resembles the Macropus 

 major, but differs in being altogether more slender in form 

 and in the much darker colouring of the fur of the upper sur- 

 face, particularly at the base of the ear and back of the neck ; 

 the fur is also more woolly in its texture : this animal, on ac- 

 count of its fleetness, I propose to name 



Macropus ocydromus. 



Macr. Macropo majori assimilis, differt autem statura graciliori, vellere 



magis lanuginoso, et colore nigrescenti-vinoso corporis superioris, 



prsesertim ad basin aurium et ad nucham. 



Hab. Swan River, Western Australia. 



Male. — Face and forehead dull cinnamon brown, becoming 

 darker over the nose and forehead ; cheeks without a white 

 stripe ; the upper lip and chin beset with a number of long 



Ann. fy Mag. N. Hist. Vol. x. B 



