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beneath the eye ; ears short, black behind, and the crown of 

 the head sometimes also black ; a well-marked white hip- 

 stripe ; legs and feet, together with the tail, grey or brown, 

 more or less grizzled with white. Length of head and body of 

 male about 30 inches ; of tail about 13 inches. 



Distribution. — Aru and Kei Islands. 



This species has an especial interest as being the first mem- 

 ber of the Kangaroo-family known to Europeans, specimens 

 having been seen in the year 171 1 by Bruyn living in the gar- 

 den of the Dutch Governor of Batavia. These were originally 

 described under the name of Philander or Filander ; but sub- 

 sequently the species became confounded with a very different, 

 although externally similar animal, known as Dorcopsis 

 muelkri, and it was not till the two were carefully compared 

 by the late Professor Garrod that their distinctness was estab- 

 lished. The present species may be distinguished externally 

 from the one last named by its very much shorter head, the 

 backward direction of the hairs on the nape of the neck, and 

 the distinct white stripe on the hip. 



Nothing definite appears to be known as to the habits of 

 either this or the following species, although they are probably 

 not very different from those of their allies. 



XVIIL SOMBRE WALLABY. MACROPUS BROWNI. 



Hahnaturus brownt, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South 



Wales, vol. i., p. 307 (1877). 

 Macropus lugens, Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 126. 

 Macropus browni^ Alston, op. cit.^ p. 743 ; Thomas, Cat. 



Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 51 (1888). 

 Macropus jukesi^ M. gracilis et M. tibol^ Mikl. Macl., Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N. South Wales, vol. ix., pp. 890, 894, and vol. 



X., p. 141. 



