﻿24 ALT. EN S NATURAI 1ST S LIBRARY. 



specimens of the latter sex are rare, the dogs generally stopping 

 the progress of the rear-guard of ' old men.' In wet weather, 

 when the chalky top-soil of the ' malley scrub ' is softened, 

 these Kangaroos are easily captured ; they sink deep into the 

 ground, and any black-fellow's cur, trained to such work, will 

 stick to the tail of the Kangaroo until his master is able to 

 come up and crack its skull or run a spear through it." 



VL OWEN's kangaroo. MACROPUS MAGNUS. 



Macropiis (Boriogale) 7nagnus^ Owen, Phil. Trans., 1874, 



p. 247. 

 Macropiis tnagnns, Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 27 



(1888). 



Known only by a single skull in the British Museum from 

 Northern Central Australia, distinguished from that of the 

 preceding species by the small size or absence of the ledges 

 on the front of the molar teeth, as well as by the longer 

 foramina on the palate. There is a possibility that this Kan- 

 garoo may eventually prove to be identical with the Isabelline 

 Kangaroo, of which only a single skin was known when the 

 British Museum " Catalogue of Marsupials " was written. 



Vn. BLACK-TAILED WALLABY. MACROPUS UALABATUS. 



Kangiirus ualabatiis, Less, and Garn., Voy. Coquille, Zool., 



vol. i., p. 161 (1826). 

 Mdcropus ualabatus, Lesson, Man., Mamm., p. 227 (1827); 



Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 30 (i888\ 

 Hal ma turns ualabatus, Gray, in Grey's Australia, Appendix, 

 vol. ii., p. 402 (1841). 



{Plate II.) 

 With this species we leave the true Kangaroos and come to 

 the smaller animals forming the group of the Large Wallabies. 



