56 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
I. BROWN DORCA. DORCOPSIS MUELLERT, 
Macropus bruni (nec Schreber), Waterhouse, Jardine’s Nat. 
Library, Mamm., vol. xi. p. 225 (1841). 
Dorcopsis bruni, Schlegel and Miiller, Verhandl. Nat. Ges. 
Nederl. Ind., p. 131 (1839-44). 
Macropus miilleri, Schlegel, Ned. ‘Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. iii., p. 
353 (1866). 
Dorcopsis miilleri, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1875, p. 493 
Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 88 (1888). 
Characters.—Nose wholly naked ; fur short, close, and glossy, 
directed forwards on nape and shoulders. General colour 
uniform chocolate-brown ; under-parts and chin white; a 
faint pale cheek-stripe ; ears very small and short, darker ex- 
ternally than crown of head; a short transverse white stripe 
in front of hip ; inner side of hip naked ; fore limbs and front 
of hind legs white or pale brown; back of hind legs and feet 
brown. ‘Tail about equal in length to the body, brown, with 
the terminal three inches white, nearly naked. Length of head 
and body of male about 33 inches ; of tail18 inches. Female 
considerably smaller. | 
Distribution. — North-western New Guinea and adjacent 
islands. 
The remarkable superficial resemblance between this species 
and AMacropus bruni, and the confusion thereby engendered 
in nomenclature, has been already mentioned (p. 37). 
W. GREY DORCA. DORCOPSIS LUCTUOSA, 
Halmaturus luctuosus, D’Albertis, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 
110. 
Dorcopsis dluctuosa, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1875, p. 49; 
Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 89 (1888). 
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