198 THE KANGAROOS, 



WOOLLY, OR RED KANGAROO. 



Macropus laniger. 



Kangurus laniger, Qwoy and Guimard. Voy. del' Uranie, PI.S'. 

 . rufus, Des?iu Mamm. Suppl. p. 84 L 



This species, which is the Red Kangaroo, of the 

 colonists of New South Wales, is rather larger than 

 the M. giganieus, and remarkable for its short woolly^ 

 or rather cotton-like fur ; the fore limbs are propor- 

 tionately large, especially in the male, and the tail is 

 enormously thick and sparingly clothed with fur — - 

 its prevailing colour is fulvous-red, or it may be call- 

 ed yellowish-rust colour (not dark,^) the head,, iieck^, 

 shoulders, and back, are tinted v/ith grey ; which,, 

 excepting on the head, is rather pale ; the under parts- 

 of the body are of a pale ash colour, slightly tinted- 

 with fulvous in the male, but in the female tlicse 

 parts, as v.ell as the limbs, are pure white. The 

 limbs in the male are dirty white, obscurely tinted 

 in parts with fulvous, and the tail is of the same- 

 colour ; the toes of both fore and hind-feet are cover- 

 ed, in both sexes, with black, or nearly bhick hairs.- 

 The sides of the muzzle, as far back a.s the angle of 

 the mouth, are pure white, but intermixed with the" 

 white are some stiff, bristly, black hairs, which have 

 a tendency on each side of the muzzle to form twa 

 black lines, and are most abundant above the angle 

 of the mouth, where they form a somewhat conspi- 

 cuous patch. In the female (in which the head is of' 



