34 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 
inhabits scrub-jungle, although occasionally seen on the open 
plains. 
XIV. CAPE YORK WALLABY. MACROPUS COXENI. 
Halmaturus coxeni, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 220. 
Halmaturus gazella, De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 
i, p. 110 (1884). 
Macropus coxeni, Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 44 
(1888). 
As this is the first representative of the group of Small 
Wallabies, we may first notice how the members of that assem- 
blage differ from the Large Wallabies just described. All the 
members of the group are characterised by their light and elegant 
build and small size, several of them being no larger than a 
rabbit. In all the muzzle is naked, and in many of them has 
an upward naked extension, with the hair growing downwards 
on each side of it. In the skull the foramina in the front of the 
palate are very small,while the unossified vacuities in the hinder 
part of the same are of great size, being usually separated from 
one another in the middle line merely by a narrow bar of bone. 
The outermost upper incisor tooth is relatively smaller than in 
the large Wallabies, and carries a single well-marked notch, 
usually placed close to the posterior end of the crown. 
This group ranges much further into the tropics than do 
either the true Kangaroo or the large Wallabies, one species : 
inhabiting the Aru Islands, while a second extends through 
New Guinea into the New Britain group. 
With these preliminary observations on the group, we revert 
to the Cape York Wallaby. 
Characters.—Size small ; form light and agile; naked portion of 
muzzle broad to the lip, the latter little developed ; fur of medium 
length, thick and soft, its direction on the neck variable, some- 
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