248 THE KANGAROOS. 



lowish white ; feet brown ; tarsi grey-brown ; upper 

 surface of head palish brown ; occiput dusky ; upper 

 lip dirty white, and a mark of the same colour runs 

 backwards^ from near the angle of the mouth, under 

 the eye: near the base of the fore-leg is a brown 

 patch. Tail well clothed with harsh hairs ; those 

 on the upper surface of the tail are nearly of the 

 same general tint as the fur of the body ; on the 

 under side they are pale-brown ; the apical half of 

 the tail is furnished with long bushy sooty-black 

 hairs. The ears are small and pointed. 



Length from nose to root of tail, 21 inches; tail, 

 28| inches; tarsus, 5 inches; ear, 1 inch 11 lines;, 

 nose to ear, 3 inches 8 lines. 



Besides the foregoing Kangaroos, there are certain 

 species which inhabit New Guinea, the characters of 

 which not being published, I am unable to introduce 

 in this work. These Kangaroos, however, possess 

 the power of climbing trees, and have been associated 

 under the generic title Dendrolagus^ — I presume 

 their extremities are considerably modified to suit 

 them to such habits, and they no doubt form an in- 

 teresting link between the true Kangaroos and the 

 Phalangers. 



* See the work entitled " Over de Zoogdieren van den Indis- 

 chen Archi2)el, door Salomon Miiller," In the published parts 

 of this work, only the names of the animals alluded to are a& 

 yet mentioned. In the table of the New Guinea Marsupials 

 given in Miiller's work, the following species are noticed : — 

 Phascogale melas, Perameles Doreyanus^ Hypsiprymnus Brunii, 

 Dendrolagus iirsmus, and Dend. inustus, Phalangista maculatCLy 

 and Petazirus sciureus^ 



