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grizzled grey; chin black, chest white; flanks and rest of 

 under-parts pale yellowish-white ; face black, with a paler band 

 across the forehead ; ears with short and coarse hairs, black 

 externally, yellow internally. Fore legs to wrist, and hind legs 

 to ankle, pale yellow ; wrists and ankles darker ; toes black ; 

 tail mingled black and pale yellow, the upper surface palei 

 than the lower, but with a darker patch near the root. Length 

 of head and body about 26 inches ; of tail about the same. 



Distribution. — Northern Central Queensland, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Herbert river. 



Habits. — The following account of the habits of this species 

 is taken from that given by Dr. Carl Lumholtz, who derived 

 most of his information from native sources ; it will probably 

 serve for those of the genus generally. I'he " Bungary," as this 

 Kangaroo is termed by the natives, although apparently far 

 from uncommon in the scrub-clad mountainous districts, is 

 extremely difficult to find, on account of its inhabiting the 

 most inaccessible regions, when it can only be tracked by the 

 aid of the natives, who must be accompanied by a well-trained 

 Dingo. When one of these animals is put on the trail of a 

 Bungary in the early morning, when the scent is fresh and 

 strong, it follows up the tracks until it reaches the tree which 

 the creature has ascended. One of the hunters then climbs 

 the tree, and either seizes hold of the long tail of the Kangaroo 

 with one hand, at the same battering in its head with a club 

 held in the other, or compels the animal to leap down, when it 

 is at once seized by the dog. It is said that two or three of 

 these Kangaroos are frequently found asleep in a single tree ; 

 and that they are chiefly nocturnal in their habits, .being es- 

 pecially active on moonlight nights. From the absence of 

 claw-marks of the Bungary on the stems of all but one particu- 

 lar kind of tree, the creature apparently frequents only that 

 sort, up which it may often be heard climbing at night. During 



