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back of neck, withers, and a patch behind the forearm dark brown. 
A well marked white hip-stripe. Arms and legs sandy ; tips of 
toes brown. Tail black above; white below and at the extreme 
tip. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about twenty-eight iuches; tail 
about fifteen inches. 
Habitat.—Northern Queensland. 
References.—Thomas, B. M. Catal. p. 44, pls. viii. fig. 1 (upper 
view of skull), x. fig. 6 (fourth premolar), and xi. fig 1 (rhinarium) 
Gray, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 220, pl. xxv. 
9. Macropus aGiis, Gould sp. (1841). 
Agile Wallaby. 
Size medium ; form rather stout and heavy. Rhinarium partly 
hairy between the nostrils. Fur short and coarse. General color 
above dark grizzled sandy, below white or grayish-white. Face- 
markings inconspicuous. An ill-defined dark nuchal stripe. Ears 
very short, the interior and base white or yellowish, the back 
dark sandy, tipped and edged anteriorly with black. Flanks 
paler than the back. A dark brown mark from the nape to 
behind the elbow. White hip-stripe well marked. Arms and 
legs white or light sandy-gray. Tail long; its proximal third sandy; 
the rest whitish, extreme tip blackish. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about thirty-seven inches ; tail 
about thirty-four inches. 
Habitat.—North Queensland ; Northern Territory ; South- 
eastern New Guinea. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 42, pls. v. fig. 7 (rhinariwm), 
vii. fig. 1 (upper view of skull), and x. fig. 5 (fourth premolar) ; 
Gould, Mamm. Austr. ii. pls. xxiv., xxv. 
10. Macropus irmA, Jourdain, sp. (1837). 
(Halmaturus manicatus, Gould.) 
Black-gloved Wallaby. 
Size small; form slender and graceful. Rhinarium partly 
hairy between the nostrils. Fur thick and soft. General color 
above dark bluish-gray ; below pale gray tinged with yellow or 
rufous. Face markings distinct; two dark whisker-marks; cheek- 
stripe yellow, continued backwards to the ear. Ears long, their 
backs and the crown of the head black ; a dark nuchal stripe ; 
inside of ears yellow, with a prominent black tip. A pale incon- 
spicuous hip-stripe. Arms and outside of legs gray; hands, feet, 
and front of legs bright yellow ; fingers and toes pure black. 
Proximal fourth and sides of tail gray ; distal three-fourths above 
and below with a well defined crest of stiff black hairs; extreme 
tip sometimes white. 
