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3. LAGORCHESTES CONSPICILLATUS, Gould (1841). 
Spectacled Hare-Wallaby. 
Form comparatively thick and heavy. Rhinarium with lower 
half of nasal septum and edges of nostrils naked. Muzzle broad 
and heavy. Fur long and coarse; under fur of back uniform 
blackish-brown. General color above coarsely grizzled yellowish- 
gray;; below mixed white and slaty-gray. Chestnut band round 
the eye well defined, not prolonged forwards on the sides of the 
muzzle. Ears short, less than one-third of the hind foot, their 
backs grizzled-gray, the insides and edges nearly white. Two 
whitish lateral bands. Arms, hands, legs, and feet gray, tinged 
with rufous. Tail above and on the sides clothed with scattered 
white hairs, except at the very base where they are gray ; below 
more closely set and tinged with fawn. Canines well developed 
and functional. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about twenty inches; tail about 
seventeen inches. 
Habitat.—Islands off the North-west coast of Australia. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 80, pls. ix. fig. 12 (upper 
Front teeth), x. fig. 16 (fourth premolar), xiii. fig. 3 (upper view 
of skull); Gould, Mamm. Austr. ii. pl. lix, 
4. LAGORCHESTES LEICHHARDTI, Gould (1863). 
Leichhardt’s Hare-Wallaby. 
Essential characters as in Z. conspicillatus, but with the ears 
slightly longer, and the coloration much more brilliant. Back 
deep fawn color ; band round the eye rich bright rufous. Under 
side and lateral bands nearly pure white. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about twenty-one inches ; tail 
about eighteen inches. 
Habditat.—North Australia. 
Type.—In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 82; Gould, Mamm. Austr. 
ii. pl. lx. 
Note.—My reason for continuing to keep the continental form 
at least provisionally separate from the insular, notwithstanding 
the opinions of such eminent mammalogists as Messrs. Collett and 
Thomas, is that the skull of an undoubted specimen of L. con- 
spicillatus which has been recently received at the Museum from 
Cambridge Gulf, is much stouter and shorter than that figured by 
Thomas (loc. cit.) as L. leichhardti. 
