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beneath the eye ; ears short, black behind, and the crown of 
the head sometimes also black; a well-marked white hip- 
stripe ; legs and feet, together with the tail, grey or brown, 
more or less grizzled with white. Length of head and body of 
male about 30 inches ; of tail about 13 inches, 
Distribution.—Aru and Kei Islands. 
This species has an especial interest as being the first mem- 
ber of the Kangaroo-family known to Europeans, specimens 
having been seen in the year 1711 by Bruyn living in the gar- 
den of the Dutch Governor of Batavia. These were originally 
described under the name of Philander or Filander ; but sub- 
sequently the species became confounded with a very different, 
although externally similar animal, known as Dorcopsis 
muellert, and it was not till the two were carefully compared 
_ by the late Professor Garrod that their distinctness was estab- 
lished. The present species may be distinguished externally 
from the one last named by its very much shorter head, the 
_ backward direction of the hairs on the nape of the neck, and 
_ the distinct white stripe on the hip. 
| Nothing definite appears to be known as to the habits of 
_ either this or the following species, although they are. probably 
| not very different from those of their allies. 
| XVIII. SOMBRE WALLABY. MACROPUS BROWNI. 
Halmaturus browni, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South 
(| Wales, vol. i., p. 307 (1877). 
Macropus lugens, Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, p. 126. 
Macropus browni, Alston, of. cit., p. 7433; Thomas, Cat. 
Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 51 (1888). 
i Macropus jukest, M. gracilis et M. tibol, Mikl. Macl., Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N. South Wales, vol. ix., pp. 890, 894, and vol. 
X., p. 141. 
