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I. BRC .VN DORCA, DORCOPSIS MUELLERI. 



Macropus brunt (nee Schreber), Waterhouse, Jardine's Nat. 



Library, Mamm., vol. xi., p. 225 (1841). 

 Dorcopsis brum, Schlegel and Miiller, Verhandl. Nat. Ges. 



Nederl. Ind., p. 131 (1839-44). 

 Macropus mulleri, Schlegel, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. iii., p. 



353 (1866). 

 Dorcopsis miillen', Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 49 ; 



Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 88 (1888). 



Characters. — Nose wholly naked ; fur short, close, and glossy, 

 directed forwards on nape and shoulders. General colour 

 uniform chocokiie-brown ; under-parts and chin white ; a 

 faint pale cheek-stripe ; ears very small and short, darker ex- 

 ternally than crown of head; a short transverse white stripe 

 in front of hip ; inner side of hip naked ; fore limbs and front 

 of hind legs white or pale brown ; back of hind legs and feet 

 brown. Tail about equal in length to the body, brown, with 

 the terminal three inches white, nearly naked. Length of head 

 and body of male about 33 inches : of tail 18 inches. Female 

 considerably smaller. 



Distribution. — North-western New Guinea and adjacent 

 islands. 



The remarkable superficial resemblance between this species 

 and Macropus b> iDiii, and the confusion thereby engendered 

 in nomenclature, has been already mentioned (p. 37). 



IJ. GREV ivOKCA. DORCOPSIS LUCTUOSA. 



Halvuiiurus lucluo,.us.^ D'Albertis, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1874, p. 



no. 

 Dorcopsis luctuosa, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 49; 



Thomas, Cat. I.husup. Brit. Mus., p. 89 (1888). 



