ON A NEW SPECIES OF KANGAROO (DORCOPSIS 

 CHALMERSII) FROM THE SOUTH-EAST END OF 

 NEW GUINEA. 



By N. de Miklouho-Maclay. 



(Plate 19.) 



During my visit to the South-east and South-Coast of New- 

 Guinea, in December, 1880, I got a young Kangaroo from the 

 mainland, opposite to Dinner Island. I obtained the animal an 

 hour or two after death, having previously seen it alive for weeks. 

 Without delay I took some measurements, and made a few sketches 

 and notes, before putting it in spirits, but only had the opportunity 

 a few weeks ago of examining it more completely. 



On the first inspection it appeared to me veiy like, and possibly 

 identical with the Kangaroo, known as Halmaturus lucluosus (1), 

 but which is, as Mr. A. H. Garrod has proved, more correctly 

 called Dorco])sis luctuosa d'Albertis (2.) 



The examination of the dentition confirmed me in including the 

 animal in the Genus Dorcopsis (on account of the size of the 

 premolars, the general shape of the skull, and the direction of the 

 hair of the neck), but it became evident that it could not 

 be rightly identified with the species D. luctuosa. The dentition 



(1.) Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1S74, p. 110, and loc. cit , 

 1874, p. 247, pi. XLII. 



(2.) On the Kangaroo called Halmaturus luctirosus, by D'Albertis, and its 

 Affinities, by A, H. Garrod, M. A., F.R.S., in Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society, 1875, p.p. 48-59. pis. VII. -IX., or in collected scientific papers of 

 late A. H. Garrod, 1881, p.p. 264-276, pis. VIII.-X. 



