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with white, (and this may be accidental,) and the 

 parts described as black in M. manicatus, are in 

 the M. Irma for the most part of a less deep hue. 

 Perhaps these two will prove to be the same species. 



FILANDER KANGAROO. 

 Macropus Brunii. 



Didelphys Brunii, Linn. Gmel. i., p. 109. 

 Filander^ Le Brim. Voyage par la Moscovie en Perse, et aux 

 Indes Orientales, Vol. II., p. 347, Fig. 213. 



Following is Le Brun's account of the Filander, 

 upon which the Didelphys Brunii is founded. 



(( Being at the country house of our General, (at 

 Batavia,) I saw a certain animal called Filander, 

 which was somewhat remarkable. There were many 

 individuals with full freedom, running with some 

 rabbits, which had their holes under a little hillock 

 encircled by a ballustrade. This animal, which I 

 have represented at No. 213, has the hinder-legs 

 much longer than the front, and is nearly of the same 

 size, and has nearly the same fur, as a large rabbit. 

 The head approaches in form to that of a fox, and 

 the tail is pointed : but the most extraordinary cir- 

 cumstance is, that it had a bag-like opening in the 

 belly, into which the young enter, even when they 

 have attained a considerable size. They are often 

 seen with the head and neck thrust out from this 

 bag ; w r hen, however, the mother is running, they 

 are not visible, but keep to the bottom of the pouch, 

 since she leaps muck." 



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