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brilliant rust-colour ; feet grey or rufous grey, with the tips of 

 the toes brown ; tail greyish-brown above, whitish below. 

 Length of head and body about 28 inches ; of tail 15 inches. 



Distribution. — North-eastern Queensland. 



XVL RED-LEGGED WALLABY. MACROPUS WILCOXL 



Halmaturus wikoxi, McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 3, 



vol. xviii., p. 322 (1866). 

 Halmaturus temporalis, De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 



vol. i., p. Ill (1884). 

 Macropus wikoxi^ Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 48 



(1888). 



This Wallaby is only a smaller and less brightly coloured 

 non-tropical representative or variety of the preceding tropical 

 species. The hair is longer in the southern form, and the 

 differences between the two are similar to those between the 

 two races of M. ualabatiis. 



Distribution.— New South Wales and Southern Queensland. 



XVIL ARU LSLAND WALLABY. MACROPUS BRUNIL 



Didelphys brunit, Schreber, Saugeth., vol. iii., p. 551 (1778). 

 Halmaturus bru7iii, Illiger, Prodrom. Syst. Mamm., p. 80 



Macropus brunit, Cuvier, Regne Anim., vol. i., p. 183 (1817) ; 

 Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 50 (1888). 



Characters.— Size and form medium ; female markedly smaller 

 than male : upper border of naked portion of muzzle, with 

 only a single central prominence downwards ; fur short, close, 

 and straight, with scarcely any under-fur. General colour 

 uniform chocolate-brown ; throat and under-parts white, 

 faintly tinged with brown ; a grey grizzle on the lower rump 

 and hi['S ; a distinct white " whisker-mark " from the mouth to 



