508 GREAT K.ANGUROO. 



a dog. In Mr. Schreber's work on Quadrupeds, 

 as welt as in the first edition of Mr. Pennant's His- 

 tory of Quadrupeds, this figure is copied with the 

 fault just mentioned; but in Mr. Pennant's last 

 edition it is properly corrected, and rendered a 

 faithful representation : this figure, therefore, so 

 far as regards the general attitude, has been se- 

 lected for the present publication, accompanied 

 by other sketches expressive of its different pos- 

 tures*. It should seem that the first described spe- 

 cimens of the Kanguroo were males ; so that one of 

 its greatest singularities was still unobserved, viz. 

 the large abdominal pouch or receptacle in which 

 the young are preserved for many months after 

 their first production ; and in which this animal is 

 allied to the Opossums; while, on the contrary, it 

 differs from those animals in the teeth, and is, 

 at the same time, allied in habit or general form 

 to the Jerboas : this, indeed, is the case also with 

 one species of Opossum, viz. the Didelphis Brunii, 

 which may be, therefore, considered as forming 

 a kind of connecting link between the Kanguroo 

 and the Opossums. 



The general size of the Kanguroo is, at least, 

 equal to that of a full-grown sheep: the upper 

 parts of the animal are small, while the lower are 

 remarkably large in proportion ; yet such is the 

 elegance of gradation in this respect, that the 

 Kanguroo may justly be considered as one of the 



* These are taken from figures in Mr. Church's most elegant 

 publication entitled A Cabinet of Quadrupeds. 



