TREE KANGAROO.—Dendroicgos wrstnus. 
This animal is rather prettily coloured, the body being furnished with fur of a fine 
grey colour, warmed with a slight reddish tinge in the adult ae and fading to a 
whitish-grey in the young. The claws are considerably curved, and black; and the ears 
are Paried with long white hairs. In size it equals a small bull- aa sy dog, being, when 
adult, rather more than two feet in leneth, and about ten inches in a ight, when standing. 
The circumference of the body is about eighteen inches, including the fur. 
On account of the tree-climbing habits of the Koala, it is sometimes called the 
Australian Monkey as well as the Australian Bear. 
THE animals which come next under consideration are truly worthy of the title of 
Macropidee, or long-footed, as their hinder feet are most remé urkable for their comparative 
leneth, and in almost every instance are many times longer than the fore-feet. This 
structure adapts them admirably for leaping, an exercise in which the Kangaroos, as these 
creatures are familiarly termed, are pre-eminently excellent. 
First on the list appears the singular animal which is well represented im_ the 
engraving, and which, on account of its “peculiar habit, is known by the name of the TREE 
Kancaroo. In general form, this animal is sufficiently Kangaroo- like to be enrolled at once 
among the members of that group of Macropods, but the comparative shortness of the 
hinder feet and the le neth of the fore-feet, together with some peculiarity in the dentition, 
have induced the later zoologists to place it in a separate genus from the true Kangaroo. 
The fur of the Tree Kangaroo is so remarkably dark that its deep tinting serves as an 
infallible mark of distinction, by means of which it may be recognised even at some 
distance. It is on account of the dark, glossy blackness of the fur, that the creature is 
called ursinus, or bear-like, as the hairs of its fur are thought to bear some resemblance 
to those which form the coat of the American black bear. 
The colouring of its fur is pengeny as follows: the whole of the back and the upper 
arts of the body are a deep, glossy black, the hairs bei ‘ing rather coarser, and running to 
some length. These hairs are only of one kind, for in the fur of the Tree Kangaroo there 
is none of that inner coat of fine, close, woolly hair which is found in the other Kangaroos, 
and which lies next to the skin. The whole of the fur is, therefore, composed solely of 
the long and stiff hairs that ave usually found to penetrate through the interior covering of 
