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Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Meeting to it as repre- 

 senting a species not hitherto described, and distinguishable by its 

 paler colour, which is generally of a slaty grey ; by the whiteness of 

 its tail throughout the greater part of the length of that organ ; by 

 the comparative length of the tail, which is here longer than the 

 body, whereas in the ordinary greater Kangaroo, Macropus major, 

 Shaw, it is shorter ; by the comparative nakedness of the ears ; by 

 the great extent of the naked muzzle ; and by a broad white stripe 

 along each cheek. He stated it to be his intention to describe it in 

 detail under the name of 



Macropus Parryi. Macr. rhinario lato ; auriculis elongatis nu- 

 diusculis ; caudd corpore sublongiore, pilis rigidis brevibus incum- 

 bentibus vestitd : notao griseo ; gastrao pallido ; fascid genarum, 

 cauddque pro maximd parte, albis, hdc ad apicem nigrd. 



Long. tot. a rostro ad caudse apicem 5 ped. 4 poll. ; capitis, 6 poll. ; 

 auricula, 4; tarsi postici, ad unguis longioris apicem, 10j-; caudce, 

 2 ped. 6 poll. 



In a Note from Sir Edward Parry, which was read, it is stated 

 that the animal in question is known to the natives in the neighbour- 

 hood of Port Stephens (lat. 32° S.) by the name of Wollaroo. This 

 individual had been in his possession in New South Wales for two 

 years previously to his embarkation for England, and was allowed to 

 range about at perfect liberty. It set out every night after dusk 

 into the bush to feed, returning generally about two o'clock in the 

 morning. In addition to what it obtained on these excursions, it 

 ate meat, bread, vegetables, &c. Occasionally, but rarely, it ven- 

 tured out in the daytime to a considerable distance, in which case 

 it would sometimes be chased back by strange dogs : these, how- 

 ever, it always outstripped by its superior swiftness, until it placed 

 itself under the protection of the dogs of the house. It died, from 

 the effects of an accident, almost immediately after its arrival in 

 England. 



Detailed Notes of its dissection by Mr. Owen were read. The 

 structure of its principal viscera corresponds in general with that of 

 the same organs in the greater Kangaroo, but there are some dif- 

 ferences observable in the anatomy of the two species. The pucker- 

 ing of the stomach, which is occasioned in Macr. major by three 

 longitudinal bands, one extending on each side from the oesophagus 

 along the lesser curvature, and the third passing along the line from, 

 which the great epiploon is continued to the spleen and transverse 

 colon, depends in Macr. Parryi on the lateral bands alone, there 

 being no mesial one. The different segments of the intestinal canal 

 bear the same relative proportion to each other in both species ; but 

 the length of the several segments, and consequently of the whole 

 canal, is less as compared with that of the body in Parry's than in 

 the greater Kangaroo, — a fact which is in direct accordance with the 

 more mixed nature of the food in the former. The spleen in Macr. 

 Parryi was deeply notched at its free trenchant margin ; in Macr. ma- 

 jor it appears to be always entire. The mesial cul- de-sac of the vagina 

 did not extend quite so far down in Macr. Parryi, as it does in the 

 better-known species. 



