33 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY, 
to the other; its food consists of grasses, and the shoots 
and leaves of the low scrubby trees which clothe the hills 
it frequents.” 
The Kangaroo described under the title of AZacropus erudbes- 
cens appears to be nothing more than a somewhat rufous 
variety of the present species. 
IV. ISABELLINE KANGAROO. MACROPUS ISABELLINUS. 
Osphranter isabellinus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1841, p. 81. 
Macropus tsabellinus, Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., vol. i., 
Pp. 99 (1846); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 25 
(1888). 
Character.—Size large; fur of medium length, very soft and 
fine, but not woolly. General colour rich foxy red, becoming 
white on the under-parts and limbs; front of neck pure white, 
sharply defined from the rufous nape bya ridge of opposed 
hairs ; tail rufous grey. Size about the same as that of the 
next species. 
Distribution.—North-western Australia and the adjacent 
islands. 
In 1888 this fine species was only known by a singie skin in 
the collection of the British Museum. 
V. GREAT RED KANGAROO. MACROPUS RUFUS. 
Kangurus rufus, Desmarest, Mamm. (Suppl.), vol. i1., p. 541 
(1822). 
Kangurus laniger, Gaimard, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1823, p. 138. 
Macropus lanigerus, Gray, in Griffith’s Animal Kingdom, 
p. 226 (1827) 
Macropus rufus, Bennett, Cat. Nat. Hist. Austral. Mus., p. 6 
(1837); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 25 (1828). 
Characters.—Size very large ; form robust, rather slender in 
the female; fur of back and sides short, close, and woolly, 
