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MACROPUS, KANGUROO. 



Generic Character. 



Denies Primores su.periores 



sex, emarginati. 

 Inferiores duo, maximi, Ion- 



gissirai, acuminati, antror- 



sum porrecti. 

 Mo/ares utrinque quinque, 



remoti. 



Pedes anticl brevissimi : postid 



longissimi. 

 Folliculus abdominalis fceminse. 



Front-teeth in the upper jaw 

 six*, emarginated. 



In the lower jaw two, very 

 large, long, sharp, and 

 pointing forwards. 



Grinders five on each side, 

 both in the upper and 

 lower jaw, distant from 

 the other teeth. 



Fore Legs very short : hind 

 legs very long. 



Abdominal pouch in the fe- 

 male. 



GREAT KANGUROO. 



Macropus Major. M. sid)fuscus, auriculis subacuminatis, pcdibus 



anticis tetradactylis. 

 Brownish Kanguroo, with sharpish ears and pentadactylous fore 



feet. 

 Macropus giganteus. Great Kanguroo. Naturalist's Miscellany. 



pl- 33- 



Didelphis gigantea. Lin. Syst.Nat.Gmd.p. 109. Schreb. 1. 154. 

 Kanguroo. Cook's voy. (Hawkesw.) 3. p. 577. pl. 20. Phillips's 



wn/. p. 105. pl. 10. Whites voy. p. 372. pl. 54. 



VyF all the animals which the vast island, or, 

 to speak more properly, continent of Australasia,, 



* In the young or half- grown animal, eight. 

 v. I. P. ii. 33 



