PROCEEDINGS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 13, 1835. 

 William Yarrell, Esq., in tlie Chair. 



A specimen was exhibited of the brush-tailed Kangaroo, Macropn^ 

 pentcillatus, Gray, whicli had recently been presented to tlie Society 

 by Captam Sir Edward W. Parry. Mr. Bennett caUed the attention 

 of the Meeting to its peculiarities, and remarked on the great hairi- 

 ness of the tail, and especially on its want of robustness at the base 

 as indicating probably the tj^pe of a new genus, to be removed from 

 among the Macropi on account of the diminished power of an or^-an 

 which is so exceedmgly strong among the tj^ical Kangaroos as to exe- 

 cute, dunng the act of slow progression and while resting, the office of 

 a third leg. In connexion with this peculiarity of taU, Mr. Bennett 

 pomted out also a difference in the form of the third, or extreme la- 

 teral, incisor, as compared with the corresponding tooth in Macr. 

 major, Shaw ; crania of the two animals being exhibited for that 

 purpose. The third incisor in Macr. pentcillatus is bilobed, and ap- 

 proaches somewhat to the character of the corresponding tooth in 

 Macr. Parryi, Benn. 



A note by Sir Edward Parry, which accompanied the specimen 

 was read. The animal appears to be procurable with difficulty, as 

 this mdividual was " the only one of the kind ever seen by Sir E. 

 Parry. It was shot among rocks near Liverpool Plains, New South 

 Wales. As several of the šame kind were seen together on more 

 than one occasion, they appear to be gregarious. They seemed to 

 prefer the neighbourhood of rocky ground, in which they had holes 

 to which, when hunted. they retreated. The first intimation re- 

 ceived of these animals by Mr. Hali was, that monkeys \vere to be 

 seen m a particular situation : and the manner in which they jumped 

 about, when he first approached a number of them, left the šame im- 

 pression on his mind. 'Phey were so wild that he found it impossi- 

 ble on his first attempt,' to obtain a specimen ; and one which he 

 had wounded escaped into its hole. Some months afterwards, how- 

 ^^' v' ^*Y '■^'"^^'"'^S o° the spot a whole night for the purpose, he 



No. XaV. Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



