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summer pelage. Considerable difference can be noted in a series of twenty 

 specimens of Queensland agilis, and the amount of dark colouring is most 

 variable The Stradbroke specimen is not so richly coloured as severnl of the 

 northern examples. It represents a large male. No special characteristics can 

 be found to differentiate the skull from those of northern specimens. A second 

 skull, which is immature, has also been received from Stradbroke. 



The following are the dimensions of the large Stradbroke skull, the 

 corresj)onding figures for a Cardwell, North Queensland, specimen being given 

 in parentheses : — Basal length 145 (142) ; greatest breadth 78 (81) ; nasals : 

 length 66 (66) ; greatest breadth 22 (22) ; central breadth 16 (16) ; inter- 

 temporal constriction 16 (15) ; palate length 98 (100) ; breadth outside m.^ 

 45 (45) , inside m.^ 29 (29) ; palatal foramina 9 (8) ; diastema 35 (33) ; basi- 

 cranial axis 40 (38), basifacial axis 106 (107), basifanial index 265 (278) ; teeth, 

 length of p4 9-5 (10), length of m^ — m^ 25-5 (26-5). 



Mr. A. S. Le Souef, Director of the Zoological Gardens, Sydney, informs 

 me in correspondence that he also has a pelt of Macropus agilis from Stradbroke 

 Island. 



