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well-marked pale area along the upper lip to beneath the eye; a 

 dark middorsal stripe from occiput backwards, very pronounced 

 in the male; chin and throat grayish white; lower neck, chest, and 

 belly colored almost like back, but somewhat lighter; limbs pale 

 fawn; tail pale gray. Head and body, 510 (female) to 570 mm. 

 (male) ; tail, 340 (female) to 410 mm. (male) . (Jones, 1924, p. 241.) 

 Jones gives the following account (1924, p. 242) : 



Flinders observed this animal in 1802, and he records that on the island "a 

 small species of Kangaroo, not bigger than a cat, was rather numerous. I 

 shot five of them, and some others were killed by the botanists and their 

 attendants and found to be in tolerably good condition." Even comparatively 

 recently the animal was very numerous, and it has been reported that as 

 many as thirty thousand were killed on the island. In 1910 a destructive 

 bush fire swept the portion of the island occupied by a wallabies, and when 

 I visited the place in 1920 no traces of it were to be found, and the tenant 

 of the island believed it to be extinct. In 1922 I again visited the island and 

 found obvious evidences of its presence, but no actual specimen was seen. 

 In 1924 the little colony had considerably increased, and two specimens were 

 secured for study purposes. The present small colony of wallabies occupies 

 only a very limited area upon which the native bush has not been destroyed 

 by various attempts at cultivation. Although the colony probably contains 

 a hundred or so individuals its hold on life cannot be considered a very 

 secure one. It is always at the mercy of bush fires, having no line of retreat, 

 since it lives on a corner of the island that is girt by high and inaccessible 

 cliffs. Moreover, it has to contend against two introduced animals, the feral 

 domestic cat, which has overrun the island, and the food-destroying rabbit. 

 It may at any time, though fortunately this does not seem to be at present 

 the case, have to contend against human enemies. ... On account of its 

 build being rather more elegant than that of the thickset Kangaroo Island 

 wallaby it was at one time a favourite with people who cared to have 

 wallabies running in their grounds, but at present I believe there are no 

 descendants of these animals living on the mainland. It has also been an 

 inhabitant of the Zoological Gardens in Adelaide, but no specimens have 

 been exhibited there for many years. A former tenant of the island has 

 assured me that when the wallabies were numerous there were two distinct 

 types living in the island, the one obviously that described as Thylogale 

 flindersi, and the other a more rare, slender, yellow wallaby. What this 

 second species was it is impossible to guess; there seem to be no traces 

 of it left. 



H. H. Finlayson writes (in litt., March 20, 1937) that although 

 the species is plentiful in a small area, its position is insecure. 



Scrub Wallaby; Dam a Wallaby or Pademelon 



THYLOGALE EUGENII (Desmarest) 



Kangurus Eugenii Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., vol. 17, p. 38, 

 1817. (Based upon the "kanguroo de File Eugene," Peron and Freycinet, 

 Voy. Terres Australes, vol. 2, p. 117, 1816; type locality "lie Eugene, 

 Josephine Archipelago," currently known as St. Peter's Island, Nuyt's 

 Archipelago, South Australia.) 



FIGS.: Gould, 1841, pi. 11, and 1859, vol. 2, pis. 29, 30 (as Halmaturus der- 

 bianus); Lydekker, 1894, pi. 5; Le Souef and Burrell, 1926, fig. 43. 



