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weak ; the second and fourth toes nearly equal, the third only a 

 little longer than the second, the fifth a little longer than the first, 

 which is the shortest ; wrists and first joints of the toes covered 

 with short stiff hairs. The hind feet long, slender, of five toes, 

 the first (thumb) placed far behind, well developed, nearly as long 

 as the fifth or outer toe, second and third conjoined, as in all the 

 kangaroos, in length equal to the outer ; the fourth longest, about 

 one-third longer than the outer toe ; all except the first (thumb) 

 covered with hair, and having short weak nails ; ears large, 

 rounded, bare within, clothed with short hair at the base, on the 

 outside margins nearly bare ; tail about half the length of the body, 

 about an inch of the base clothed with hair, the remainder naked, 

 scaly, intermixed with a few short minute hairs. 



Hypsiprymnodon moschatus. Sp. jVo». 



All the upper surface of the body clothed with close and rather 

 stiff fur, of a rich golden colour, mixed with black, the base of the 

 hairs being of a dull dark wood-brown, the remainder yellow and 

 black barred ; head, face, and lower parts of the legs, dark 

 brownish grey — the hairs brown at base, barred with black and 

 white, and being much shorter than on the back — feet and hands 

 dark chocolate-brown, tail blackish brown, with a lead-coloured 

 tinge — along the centre of the throat and chest to the abdomen, a 

 few patches of white. The sexes are alike in colouration, and 

 emit a strong odour of musk. The young of a more golden hue, 

 and less white on the under parts ; irides dark hazel — nostrils 

 blackish — tips naked. Total length of adults 12 inches, tail 6 

 inches ; fore feet 09 inch, hind feet from ankle T8 inch. Habitat : 

 The dense brushes and scrubs in the Rockingham Bay district. I 

 first met with this highly interesting and anomalous marsupial, 

 while on a visit to the Herbert Kiver in January, 1874, where it 

 inhabits the dense and damp portions of the scrubs which fringe 

 the rivers and clothe the sides of the coast range in that district. 

 The animal is by no means rare, yet from its retiring habits and 

 dense nature of the parts frequented by it, is at all times difficult 

 to obtain. Its habits are chiefly diurnal, and its actions when not 

 disturbed by no means ungraceful ; it progresses in much the same 



