53 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
TIIE TREE-KANGAROOS. GENUS DENDROLAGUS. 
Dendrolagus, Schlegel and Miller, Verhandl. Nat. Ges. Nederl. 
Ind., p. 138 (1839-44). 
General build of ordinary proportions in regard to the re- 
lative length of the limbs, and unlike that of the Kangaroos. 
Naked portion of nose broad and partially covered with scat- 
tered hairs ; fur on nape, and sometimes on back, directed for- 
wards. Fore limbs strong, stout, and nearly as long as the 
hinder pair; hind feet broad, with the two inner toes not 
greatly smaller than the other two; claws stout and strong, 
those of the two outer toes of the hind foot as much curved 
as those of the fore foot. Tail very long, thickly and evenly 
haired. The Kangaroos being such essentially terrestrial animals, 
it is somewhat surprising to find certain members of the family 
adapted for an arboreal life. Nevertheless, four species, of 
which three are from New Guinea, while the fourth is an in- 
habitant of North Queensland, are dwellers in trees, which 
they climb with facility. Whether the relatively large size of 
the fore limbs is a feature which has been re-acquired, or whether 
it is a primitive feature, is a question that does not very readily 
admit of ananswer ; but the close correspondence in the struc- 
ture of the feet to those of the more typical members of the 
family would rather seem to be in favour of regarding the 
relative equality of the limbs as an acquired feature. 
I. QUEENSLAND TREE-KANGAROO. DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI. 
Dendrolagus lumholtzt, Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1884, p. 387 ; 
Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 96 (1888). 
(Plate VII.) | 
Characters.—Form stout ; fur long and rather coarse, reversed 
from withers to crown of head. General colour pale, finely 
