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60 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 
the rainy season, small young trees are those especially selected. 
The natives report that the Bungary will jump from great 
heights on to the ground, when its movements are agile and 
rapid. From being frequently found at great distances from 
water, it is popularly believed not to drink. The flesh is much 
esteemed by the natives, and is said to be very palatable to 
Europeans, although frequently uninviting, owing to the pre- 
sence of a parasite, which burrows beneath the skin. 
II. BLACK TREE-KANGAROO,. DENDROLAGUS URSINUS. 
Dendrolagus ursinus, Schlegel and Miller, Verhandl. Nat. Ges. 
Ind., p. 141 (1839-44) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., 
p. 94 (1888). 
Characters.—Size about the same as the last, but tail consider- 
ably longer than the head and body ; form thick and clumsy ; 
nose tuberculated inferiorly, and so thinly haired as to be 
practically naked; the tuberculated portion nearly white, and 
the hairy part black ; lower lip with two grooves; fur long, 
straight, and coarse, except on the face, which is covered only 
with pale under-fur; the latter short, woolly, and pale brown ; 
fur of back of neck directed forwards. General colour uni- 
form black; face pale whitish-brown or grey; under-parts a 
pale brown; ears short, rounded, with soft woolly black hairs 
externally, and on the inside of the edges; tip of tail some- 
times yellow. 
Distribution—North-western New Guinea. 
III. BROWN TREE-KANGAROO. DENDROLAGUS INUSTUS. 
Dendrolagus inustus, Schlegel and Miiller, Verhandl. Nat. Ges. 
Ind., p. 143 (1839-44) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., | 
Pp. 95 (1888). 
Characters. 
last, with the tail piace longer than the head and body. 
and rather more slenderly built than the 
