ISO THE KANGAROOS. 



SMALL-FOOTED HYPSIPRYMNU& 



Hypsiprymnus Gilbertii. 

 Hypsiprymnus micropus, Gould's MSS. 



This species closely resembles the H. murinus, 

 but the head is proportionately smaller, and so are 

 the fore and hind-feet, and the tail is shorter. The 

 fur is rather more harsh and more distinctly pencilled 

 with whitish ; all the hairs of the under fur on the 

 back are slate grey at the base, and rusty brown 

 externally ; the harsher hairs, which are abundant, 

 have the basal half slate grey, and the remaining 

 portion white, slightly tinted with rust colour, 

 and, at the point, they are black; besides these, there 

 are some interspersed longer hairs which are entirely 

 black, excepting at the root : the fur on the belly is 

 pale grey next the skin, and dirty white externally ; 

 fore and hind-feet brown ; greyish above, excepting 

 on the toes ; ears densely clothed with brown hairs ; 

 blackish at the margin, 



Length from nose to root of tail, 15^ inches; tail, 

 about 7 inches ; tarsus, 2 inches 7 lines ; nose to 

 ear, 3 inches 2 lines ; ear, 1 inch 1 line. 



Inhabits King George's Sound. From the collec- 

 tion of Mr. (iould. 



The skull of this species has the same elongated 

 narrow form as that of the H. murinus, with which 

 it very nearly agrees in size, but is remarkable for 

 convexity of the outer surface of the superior maxil- 



