192 THE KANGAROOS. 



GREAT KANGAROO. 



Macropus giganteus. 



Macropus giganteus, Shaii\ Naturalisfs IMiscellany PI. 33. 

 Macropus major, Shaw, General Zoology, Vol. 1., part 2, p. 



505, PI. 115. 

 Didelphys gigantea, Linn. Lyst. ed Geml. p. 109. 

 Kangarus labiatus, Geof. and Desm., Mamm. p. 273, sp. 423. 



Ears moderate ; tail moderately long and very 

 tliick ; fore limbs rather long compared with most 

 other species ; fur moderately long, neither soft nor 

 hai'sh ; the hairs waved and giving to the fur a slight 

 woolly charactci'. General colour greyish-hrown, 

 darker on the hack and prder on the sides of the 

 body ; under parts and inner side of limbs brownish 

 white, on the chest faintly tinted with greyish; the 

 Lairs on tins part obscurely tipped with dusky ; pre- 

 vailing tiiit of fore-legs greyish; the fore-feet grizzled 

 with black and brown-white; toes black. The hind- 

 legs externally, and the base of the tarsi, are very pale 



which I do not find comljined in other species with the hairy 

 muzzle. Mr. Gould has added several new species to this 

 section, antl, whilst in Australia, paid particular attention to 

 this interesting family. Tliis naturalist, I am hnppy to state, 

 intends shortly to publisli a Monograph on the Macropodidce^ 

 on the same scale as his splendid works on birds, in whii-h 

 all the species, (including the novelties, which, by his kind 

 permission I have been enabled briefly to notice in this work) 

 will be carefully figured and described, and further enriched 

 with copious notes on their habits and ranges. 



