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OBSERVATI(3N8 ON DENDROLAGUS BENNETTIANUS, 

 DE VIS. 



Bv Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S. 



(Zoologist, Australian Museum.) 



(Contributions from the Australian Museum, by permission of the 

 Trustees.) 



(Plates XLii.-XLiii.) 



About a year ago Mr. D. le Souef spent some time in Northern 

 Queensland for the purpose of collecting Tree Kangaroos and other 

 animals for the Melbourne Zoological Gardens. He was very 

 successful, and obtained six examples of Deadrolagus, four of 

 which reached Melbourne alive. Mr. le Souef has published an 

 interesting account of his experiences,* wherein he mentions that 

 the kangaroos wei'e identified by Mr. C. W. de Vis as the supposed 

 .species he had tentatively named D. bennettianus. 



The daily papers of September 18th last announced that a 

 steamer had arrived at Sydney from the North with eight cages 

 of Tree Kangaroos. These animals, about sixteen in number, 

 were captured, after considerable difficult}^, on the Bloomfield 

 River, and were shipped at Cooktown for delivery to the Zoological 

 Gardens, Melbourne. 



While on board, one of the smaller animals escaped from 

 confinement and immediately jumped into the rigging, up which 

 it went with amazing speed, and seemed perfectly in its element 

 wlien in the vicinity of the mast-head. 



* Victorian Naturalist, xi. No. 1, p. 3. 



