XXXI. Some Account of Macropus Parryi, @ hitherto undescribed Species of Kangaroo 
from New South Wales. By E. T. Bennerr, Esq., F.L.S., Sec. Z.8. 
Communicated December 23, 1834. 
A. KANGAROO, recently brought from New South Wales by Capt. Sir Edward W. 
Parry, R.N., and presented by him to the Society, offers the type of a new species so 
well defined in its characters, and so distinct from all that have been recorded, as to 
merit a full description. Its distinctive characters may be expressed in the following 
terms : 
Macropvus Parrvt. 
Macr. rhinario lato ; auriculis elongatis, nudiusculis ; caudd pilis rigidis brevibus incum- 
bentibus vestitd, corpore sublongiore: noteo griseo ; gastreo pallido ; fascid genarum, 
cauddque pro maximd parte, albis, hdc ad apicem nigra. 
The general form of the animal is that of the common Kangaroo, Macropus major, 
Shaw ; it seems, however, as far as may be judged from a single specimen not seen by 
me until after its death, to be somewhat more slender in its proportions. Its size is 
about one third smaller; but the tail and ears are of greater proportional length, as 
will be seen by the comparative measurements hereafter given. The colour above is 
grey, differing little, except by its comparative lightness, from that of the common 
species ; the long scattered hairs being entirely of a brownish grey, and the under fur 
dusky at the base and pale at the tips of the soft woolly hairs which compose it. The 
general hue is somewhat darker along the middle line of the upper part of the back, 
and at the base of the tail; but becomes paler on the shoulders, and still more so on 
the sides of the body: the under parts lose nearly all the tinge of grey, and are covered 
with a much thicker, longer, closer, and more woolly fur. The base of the tail above, 
for about 9 inches, is dark grey, and beyond this are several faint indications of a ten- 
dency to form half rings of that colour on the somewhat dirty white which occupies the 
remainder of that organ, with the exception of about 3 inches at the tip. The hairs on 
the tail are short, bristly, closely adpressed, and but thinly cover the surface of the 
skin. On the middle line of the under surface, however, they are closer and much 
longer. Like those of the upper surface these are of a dirty white ; but about 7 inches 
from the tip they begin to change into a deep black, and mingling towards the extremity 
with the shorter hairs of the sides and upper surface, they give to the tail a black tip, 
intermixed with only a few scattered white hairs, which are scarcely seen except on a 
close examination. At the base of the tail its under surface is covered by white fur, 
