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. 31. Bennettii. 31. Bennettii^ 



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



Length from nose to root of tail, 32 33 34 



of tail, . . 15 32 32 



. tar^i, . . 8 6 8 6 8 6 



ear, . . 3 .3 3 1 



