54 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
“The name of Hare-Kangaroo has been given to this species 
as much from its similarity of form and size to the common 
Hare as from its similarity of habits. I usually found it solitary, 
and sitting alone on a well-formed seat under the stalks of a 
tuft of grass on the open plains. For a short distance its fleet- 
ness is beyond that of all others of its group that I have had 
an opportunity of coursing. Its powers of leaping are also 
extraordinary. While out on the plains of South Australia, I 
started a Hare-Kangaroo before two fleet dogs. After running 
to the distance of a quarter of a mile it suddenly doubled and 
came back to me, the dogs following close to its heels. I stood 
perfectly still, and the animal had arrived within twenty feet 
before it observed me, when, to my astonishment, instead of 
branching off to the right or to the left, it bounded clear over 
my head, and, on descending to the ground, I was able to 
make a successful shot, by which it was procured.” 
According to Krefft, this species is common in the level 
country between the Murray and Darling rivers; and is strictly 
nocturnal and solitary in its habits. During the daytime it is 
generally found asleep under some salt-bush or other sheltered 
situation. When hunted, it takes leaps of more than eight feet 
in height. 
ill. RUFOUS HARE-WALLABY. LAGORCHESTES HIRSUTUS, 
Lagorchestes hirsutus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1844, Pp. 323 
Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 84 (1888). 
Macropus (Lagorchestes) hirsutus, Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. 
Mamm., vol. i., p. 93 (1846). 
Ffalmaturus hirsutus, Wagner, in Schreber’s Saugeth. Suppl, 
vol. v., p. 307 (1855). 
Characters.—Form nearly as in the last ; nose almost entirely 
hairy ; muzzle narrow and light; fur long and coarse ; under- 
fur of back dark slaty, with pale or rufescent tips. General 
