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$0 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
II, BRIDLED WALLABY. ONYCHOGALE FRENATA. 
Macropus frenatus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1840, p. 92. 
Onychogalea frenata, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 88 
(1843). 
Halmaturus frenatus, Schinz, Synops. Mamm., vol. i., p. 548 
(1844). 
Onychogale frenata, Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 76 
(1888). 
Characters.—Size small ; form light and slender; nose narrow, 
wholly haired ; fur soft and thick. General colour clear grey ; 
chin and chest white; rest of under-parts pale grey; middle of 
back of neck biack; ears short, greyish-brown externally, 
white internally ; a distinct white shoulder-stripe, continued 
along the sides of the neck to behind the ear; sides of neck 
grey, tinged with rufous; an indistinct pale hip-stripe; fore 
legs and outer sides of hind legs and feet white. Tail of medium 
length, grey, with the tip black, and the terminal nail short 
and rounded. Length of head and body about 22 inches ; of 
tail 18 inches. : 
Distribution.—Interior of Southern Queensland, New South 
Wales, and Victoria. | 
Habits—One of the most elegant of the Kangaroo family. — 
This species, says Gould, “inhabits all the low mountain ranges 
similar to those of Brezi, the elevation of which varies from ~ 
one to five or six hundred feet, arid which are of a sterile cha- — 
racter—hot, dry, stony, and thinly covered with shrub-like stony ~ 
trees. . . . When started from its seat, which is formed — 
like that of a Hare, and sheltered by a tuft of grass or a small © 
bush, it bounds away with remarkable swiftness, generally giving | 
the best dogs a sharp run, and frequently effects its escape by * 
gaining the thick part of the trunk or the hole of a decayed : 
tree ; and I recollect, on one occasion, that on being sharply | 
