﻿THE BANDED WALLABIES. 6l 



Agreeing with Z>. lumholtzi in having the general colour of the 

 body, limbs^ and tail grey, and the face dark, it may be distin- 

 guished therefrom by having the whole of the back and sides 

 dark grizzled grey, instead of the back pale grey and the flanks 

 white. 



Distribution. — New Guinea. 



IV. DORIa's TREE-KANGAROO. DENDROLAGUS DORIANUS. 



Dendrolagus dorianus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South 

 Wales, vol. viii. p. 17 (1883); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. 

 Brit. Mus., p. 98 (1888). 



Characters. — A large, imperfectly-known species, with the tail 

 considerably shorter than the head and body, characterised by 

 the forward direction of the fur of the whole of the back. The 

 general colour is uniform dark brown, with the face paler, and 

 the tail black. 



Distribution. — South-eastern New Guinea. 



THE BANDED WALLABIES. GENUS LAGOSTROPHUS. 



Lagosirophus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1886, p. 544. 



Form as in Macropus ; nose naked; hind feet covered 

 with long bristly hairs, concealing the claws ; back cross- 

 banded. 



BANDED WALLABY. LAGOSTROPHUS FASCIATUS. 



Kangurus fasciatuSj Peron and Lesueur, Voyage Terres Austr., 



vol. i., p. 114 (1807). 

 Habnaturus fasciatus^ Goldfuss, Isis, 18 19, p. 268. 

 Macropus fas ciatus^ Fischer, Synops. Mamm., p. 284 (1829). 

 Lagorchestesfasciatus, Gould, Mamm. Austral., pi. Ivi. (1849). 

 Lagostrophus fasctattis, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 544; 



Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 104 (1888). 



