36 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
brilliant rust-colour ; feet grey or rufous grey, with the tips of 
the toes brown; tail greyish-brown above, whitish below. 
Length of head and body about 28 inches ; of tail 15 inches. 
Distribution —North-eastern Queensland. 
XVI. RED-LEGGED WALLABY. MACROPUS WILCOXI. 
Halmaturus wilcoxt, McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 
vol. xviii., p. 322 (1866). 
Halmaturus temporalis, De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 
vol. i., p. 111 (1884). 
Macropus wilcoxi, Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 48 
(1888). 
This Wallaby is only a smaller and less brightly coloured 
non-tropical representative or variety of the preceding tropical 
species. The hair is longer in the southern form, and the 
differences between the two are similar to those between the 
two races of WM. ualabatus. 
Distribution —New South Wales and Southern Queensland. 
XVII. ARU ISLAND WALLABY. MACROPUS BRUNII. 
Didelphys brunit, Schreber, Saugeth., vol. iii., p. 551 (1778). 
Halmaturus brunit, Mliger, Prodrom. Syst. Mamm., p. $0. 
(1811). | 
Macropus brunii, Cuvier, Régne Anim., vol. i., p. 183 (1817) ; 
Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 50 (1888). 2 
Characters.—Size and form medium ; female markedly smaller | 
than male: upper border of naked portion of muzzle, with’ 
only a single central prominence downwards ; fur short, close, : 
and straight, with scarcely any under-fur. General colour | 
uniform chocolate-brown; throat and under-parts white, | 
faintly tinged with brown; a grey grizzle on the lower me i 
and hips; a distinct white “ whisker-mark” from the mouth to | 
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