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patient care of Mr. J. Brown, of Robe, she has survived the rough handling 

 received. She may well represent the last of her race in this State, as a 

 careful and extended examination of the beat of the Konetta band by the 

 writer in February of this year failed to reveal any recent traces, either 

 in the shape of tracks or dejecta, and the opinion is expressed by the resi- 

 dent who knows the country best that the band has been entirely extirpated. 

 The species is very poorly represented in Museums, and enquiries recently 

 instituted in all the States indicate that there are six skins and seven skulls 

 in the public collections of Australia. 



Mr. Finlayson writes (in litt., March 20, 1937) that the species 

 is nearly extinct. 



"This beautiful species presents the most tragic, and probably 

 prophetic, history of all the kangaroos since white settlement" (E. 

 Le G. Troughton, in litt., April 16, 1937). "The sum total of the 

 isolated protective effort apparently is a doe, rescued from kangaroo 

 dogs, which by now may represent the sole survivor of the species" 

 (Troughton, 1938, p. 407). 



Black-gloved Wallaby; Western Brush Wallaby 



WALLABIA IRMA (Jourdan) 



Halmaturus irma Jourdan, C. R. Acad. Sci. [Paris], vol. 5, p. 523, 1837. ("Les 

 bords de la riviere des Cygnes, sur les cotes de Leuwin (Australasie)"n: 

 Swan River, Western Australia.) 



SYNONYM: Macropus (Halmaturus) manicatus Gould (1841). 



FIGS.: Gould, 1841, pi. 9, and 1852, vol. 2, pis. 20, 21; Le Souef and Burrell, 

 1926, fig. 39. 



Though apparently remaining common for the present in its re- 

 stricted range in Western Australia, this species "requires observa- 

 tion and close protection wherever possible" (E. Le G. Troughton, 

 in litt., April 16, 1937) . 



Head gray above; cheeks and lips yellowish white; black spot 

 under chin; back of ears brown; inside of ears yellow, the terminal 

 third black; crown brown; chest, neck, sides, and outer surface of 

 limbs light tawny-yellow ; wrists and tarsi yellow ; digits brown and 

 black; tail with a dorsal and ventral crest, mostly gray, blackish 

 toward the end, and tipped with white hairs. Head and body, 720 

 mm.; tail, 630 mm. (Jourdan, 1837, p. 523.) According to Thomas 

 (1888, p. 41), the general color is dark bluish gray; back of ears, 

 crown, and digits black. 



"To what extent this pretty animal ranges over Western Australia 

 has not been ascertained, but we know that it is very generally dif- 

 fused over every part of the colony of Swan River, wherever sterile 

 and scrubby districts interspersed with belts of dwarf Eucalypti 

 exist .... 



"Mr. Gilbert informs us that it may be ranked among the fleetest 

 of its race; that it requires dogs of the highest breed to capture it, 



