452 A new Tree-Kangaroo from British New Guinea. 



Cotvpes. Two skins with skulls (<^ & ?), collected 11th 

 and 14th April, 1908, respectively, by Mr. A. J. C. Molyneux, 

 and presented to the Rhodesia Museum. 



Although this species is remarkably like G. darlingi in 

 outward appearance, its larger size is sufficient to distinguish 

 it, while the less extended white patch on the crown and 

 absence of white patches below the ears and on the throat 

 prevent its being contused with G. damarensis and G. lechei, 

 Thos. 



LVII. — A new Tree-Kangaroo from British New Guinea. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



The British Museum owes to Mr. Walter Goodfellow the 

 skin and skuU of a remarkable new tree-kangaroo of the 

 genus J)endrolagus, which was shot by its donor during his 

 recent journey in search of paradise-birds in the mountains of 

 British New Guinea. It is related to the striking species 

 Dendrolugus matschiei, Foerst. & Rothsch.*, from German 

 New Guinea, the type specimen of which has been kindly 

 lent me by Mr. Rothschild for comparison. 

 The new species may be called 



JDendrolagus goodfellowi, sp. n. 



A rufous-brown species with yellow feet, dark red ears? 

 mottled tail, and two yellowish lines on the loins. 



Fur straight, not woolly, about 2^-3 cm. in length on the 

 back ; the hairs directed forwards and backwards from a 

 pair of prominent whorls about halfway along the back ; 

 in D. matschiei, the hair-division takes place at about the 

 same point, but the whorls are less distinct. General colour 

 above dark bistre-brown, suffused with rufous, the latter 

 colour becoming more dominant posteriorly ; the bases of the 

 hairs rufous, their median portion blackish and their ends 

 tipped with shining buffy or drab, which gives a finely 

 grizzled appearance to the body. Under surface and inner 

 side of limbs ochraceous, becoming more rufous on the belly, 

 where the light colour is narrowed to a breadth of only about 

 o inches, owing to the extension downwards of the dark 

 colour of the flanks. Head dull russet-brown, its hairs 

 directed backwards to a hair-crest running across between 

 the anterior corners of the ears ; the muzzle but little lighter 



* Nov. Zool. xiv. pi. iv. (1907). 



