MACROPUS ALBUS. 215 



" This animal is only provisionally described as a 

 species, as there is only a single specimen of it in the 

 British Museum, without any skull. It may probably 

 prove only an albino variety of some other species, 

 though I am not acquainted with any species as yet 

 described that has such long ears, and so short and so 

 thick a tail ; but both these characters may depend 

 upon the manner in which it is stuffed ; for the skin 

 before it was stuffed, appears to have been used as a 

 cloak or mat. 



" The length of the head is 7 inches ; of the ears 

 from the outer base to the tip, 3 inches ; of the 

 neck and body, 25 inches; of the tail, 15 inches; of 

 the fore-feet, with bones in them, 3 inches ; of the 

 hind-feet, with bones in them, to the end of the 

 middle toes, 8| inches ; and to the end of the outer 

 little toe, 7 inches." 



The above is the whole of Mr. J. Gray's account 

 of M. albus ; if its dimensions be compared with those 

 of M. Bennettii, and with a white Kangaroo in the 

 Museum of the Zoological Society, it will be seen 

 there is a close correspondence, excepting in the 

 measurement of the tail, and as the skin upon which 

 M. albus was founded, was perhaps a "cloak or mat," 

 I think it highly probable that a portion of the tail 

 may have been removed. 



White variety of 



M. Albus. M. JBennettii. M. Bennettii. 

 Ins. Lin. Ins. Lin. Ins. Lin. 

 Length from nose to root of tail, 32 33 34 



of tail, . . 15 32 32 



tarsi, . 8686 86 



ear, 30 30 31 



