MARSUPIAL ANIMALS. 



Great Kangaroo. 



Hunting the Wallaby or Small Kangnri 



The Kangaroo is a most graceful jmimal, but appears to most advantage when only the upper part of the 

 body is seen; its head being small and deer-shaped, and its eyes soft and lustrous. It inhabits New Hol- 

 land and Van Dieman's Land. Its singular formation, peculiarly adapted to the country, calls forth a cor- 

 responding degree of ingenuity on the part of the natives, who live much on its flesh. Its method of pro- 

 gression is by immense leaps, from its long hind legs, assisted by its tail. The length of each leap is about 

 fifteen feet. The Kangaroo, except when feeding, stands upright on his bind legs, and can then see 

 over the tops of the rank herbage. Hunting this animal is a very favorite sport with both colonists and 

 natives. The natives either knock it down with the boomerang, spear it from behind a bush, or unite to- 

 gether and hem in a herd, which soon fall victims to the volleys of clubs spears, and boomerangs which 

 pour in on all sides. The colonists either shoot it or hunt it with dog^, a herd which is trained for that 

 purpose just as we train fox-hounds. The female Kangaroo carries its young about in a kind of pouch, from 



which they emerge when they 

 wish for a little exercise, and 

 leap back again on the slightest 

 alarm. There are many species 

 of Kangaroo among which is 

 one known as the Wallaby or 

 small Kangaroo. 



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Chasing the Kangaroo. 



Group of Kangaroos. 



