i THE NAIL-TAILED WALLABIES, 51 
pressed, the animal mounted the inside of the tree to an 
|| Opening nearly fifteen feet from the ground, whence it leaped 
down before the dogs, and succeeded in reaching the hollow 
trunk of a fallen tree, from which it was finally taken by 
| hand.” 
|| Krefft states that this species is the most common of all the 
smaller members of the Kangaroo tribe, and that although fre- 
|| quently seen abroad during the daytime, in captivity is more 
‘lively by night; it is gregarious in its habits. The female, 
‘which, as in the allied forms, is considerably smaller than the 
(male, produces a single young one at a time, generally born at 
the beginning of May, 
III. CRESCENT WALLABY. ONYCHOGALE LUNATA, 
| 4m lunatus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc 
(Galmaturus lunatus, Schinz, Synops. Ma 
(1844). 
5 lunata, Gould, Mamm. Australia, vol. ii,, pl. lv. 
(1849) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., P- 77 (1888). 
+» 1840, p. 93. 
mm., vol, i, p. 548 
| Characters. —Size small ; form very light and delicate 3 nose 
jarrow, with the base of the septum naked ; fur s 
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oft and woolly. 
| }eneral colour dark grey ; under-parts whitish » ears short, 
\rown externally, white internally ; back and sides of neck rich 
Jafous 3 @ Conspicuous white shoulder-stripe, not extending on 
> back of neck; two indistinct stripes on hip ; limbs pale 
jtey ; toes brown; tail short, grey, with the terminal nail as in 
jae last species. Length of head and body about 20 inches : 
jf tail 13 inches, 
(Distribution.—West and South Australia, 
pecies are probably identical with those 
the preceding, 
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