1152 DIRECTION OF THE HAIR ON THE BACKS OF SOME KANGAROOS, 



Prof. Garrod, redescribing the Ealmaturus luctuosus of 

 D'Albertis as Dorcopsis luctuosa, which shows the same 

 peculiarity, says: — "All the hair covering the space bounded in 

 " front by a line running transversely across the parietal region, 

 " and behind by two lines joining in the middle line between the 

 " shoulders, to form a right angle seven inches behind the 

 " occiput, and extending forward and outward to the shoulder - 

 " joint, being directed forward, whilst the general body-covering 

 " of hair is directed normally backwards." (1.) 



Dorcopsis Chalmersii, described by me in a former paper (2), 

 shows on the neck exactly the same extent of fur, with the hair 

 directed forward, as in Dorcopsis luctuosa. The direction of the 

 hair on the tail of Dorcopsis Muelleri, mentioned by Schlegel and 

 Muller, does not exist in Dorcopsis luctuosa nor in Dorcopsis 

 Chalmersii. 



The peculiarity in the direction of the hair on the neck of the 

 above mentioned kangaroos is still more remarkable in a new 

 species of Dendrolagus, discovered lately on the South Coast of New 

 Guinea. In this species — Dendrolagus Dorianus — not only the 

 hair on the neck, out nearly the whole of the hair on the back is 

 directed forward. Mr. E. P. Ramsay, in the description of this 

 species, says : — " The whole of the hair on the body is reversed, 



straalvormig heenloopt. Het is om deze reden, dat het hair der achterdeelen 

 van den hals naar voren loopt, en tusschen de ooren, aan het naar achteren 

 gerigte, korte hair des kops stootende, hier eene sort van kam vormt, welke 

 " zich dwars over het achterhoofd, van het eene ovo tot het andere uitstrekt. 

 " , i . . (Loc. Cit. p. 142.) 



About Dendrokigtis imistus, we find the following remarks : — 

 " Het hair, hetwelk van den hairkring boven de schouders, langs den 

 "achterhals naar voren loopt, blijft die rigting tot op het midden van den 

 " kop behouden, en stoot hier aan het naar achteren gerigte hair der snuits, 

 " aldus op den bovenkop eene lijn vormende, welke zich, in eene half 

 " cirkelvormige bogt, tot aan de de boven- voorhoek van het oor uitstrekt. 



" (Loc. Cit. p. 144,) On the plates 19, 20 and 2Hof the above 



mentioned paper of H. Schlegel and S. Muller) the direction of the hair on 

 the neck is distinctly to be seen. 



(1.) A. H. Garrod. On the Kangaroo called Halmaturus luctuosus, by 

 D'Albertis, and its affinities. I'roceed. of the Zool. Soc, 1^75. P. 51. 



(2.) N. de M. Mac/ay. On a new species of Kangaroo from the S.E. end 

 of New Guinea. Proceed, of the Linnean Soc. of N.S.W. Vol. IX. P. 569. 



