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and Troughton (1934, p. 44) as a subspecies of P. xanthopus. Prac- 

 tically no information is at hand concerning its numerical status, 

 which, however, is presumably more satisfactory than that of P. x. 

 xanthopus.} 



Red-necked Pademelon; Pademelon Wallaby 



THYLOGALE THETIS (Lesson) 



Hnlmaturus Thetis "Busseuil" Lesson, Manuel Mammalogie, p. 229, 1827. 



("Port- Jackson" [Sidney], New South Wales.) 

 FIGS.: Geoffroy and Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., vol. 6, pi. 225, 1824; Lesson, 



in Bougainville, Jour. Navigation Globe Thetis et Esperance, atlas, pi. 37, 



1837; Gould, 1842, pi. 21; Gould, 1857, vol. 2, pis. 31, 32; Cabrera, 1919, 



pi. 15, fig. 5; Le Souef and Burrell, 1926, fig. 42. 



This species, formerly occurring from southern Queensland to 

 Victoria, is now extinct in Victoria, and its range in New South 

 Wales has become restricted to the north coast. Little seems to be 

 known of its present status in Queensland. 



The upper lip is little developed, not hiding the front teeth. The 

 general color above is grizzled gray; rufous on neck, shoulders, and 

 rarely on cheeks and round .base of ears; a faint white hip-stripe 

 sometimes present; arms and legs gray or rufous; hands and feet 

 pale brown; tail gray basally, then brown above and white below. 

 Head and body, 540 (female) to 660 mm. (male). (Thomas, 1888, 

 p. 53.) Tail, 368 (female) to 476 mm. (male) (Waterhouse, 1846, 

 vol. 1, p. 148). 



Of the early abundance of this pademelon, Gould writes (1863, 

 vol. 2, p. 38) : 



Of the smaller species of Wallaby inhabiting New South Wales, the present 

 is perhaps the one best known to the colonists, inasmuch as it is more 

 abundant than any other. . . . All the brushes I have visited from Illawarra 

 to the Hunter, as well as those of the great range which stretches along 

 parallel With the coast, are equally favoured with its presence; I have also 

 received specimens from Moreton Bay. . . . 



As an article of food, few animals are so valuable, its flesh being tender 

 and well-flavoured, and more like that of the common Hare than that of 

 any other European animal I can compare it with. 



Le Souef and Burrell remark (1926, p. 196) that it "has been 

 noted in the scrub on the Blue Mountains, New South Wales." 



Troughton states (1932, p. 188) that it shows "a continual shrink- 

 age in range" and is "now confined to the North Coast" of New 

 South Wales. 



Lewis (1931, p. 120) apparently refers to the present species in 

 the following remarks on a Victorian animal: "The Dwarf Wallaby, 

 commonly known as the Paddymelon, was very plentiful once along 

 the coast between Lake Wellington and Metung, but I was afraid 



