188 THE KANGAROOS. 



there is not, therefore, so distinct a tuft ; these hairs 

 are brown, and not black, and the dark hairs are 

 nearly confined to the tip of the tail, whereas in H. 

 penicillatus they extend a considerable distance 

 along the upper surface ; the ears are rather larger 

 and the head is longer ; the lower front incisors are 

 much shorter and stouter, the upper front incisors 

 are much stouter; the distance between the fore part, 

 of the anterior incisors, (upper jaw) and the hinder 

 part of the canines is 6^ lines ; the space betweer. 

 the canine and posterior incisor is about 1 line. In 

 H. penicillatus there is not more than half a line 

 between the canine and incisors, and the distance 

 between the anterior of front incisor and hinder part 

 of canine, is a trifle more than 5 lines; from fore part 

 of front incisor, upper jaw, to the first molar, 10 

 lines. The specimen apparently is a male, and is 

 contained in the Museum of the Zoological Society. 



RUSTY HYPSIPRYMNUS. 



Hypsiprymnus rufescens. 



Bettongia rufescens, Gray. Magazine of Natural History for 

 November 1837, p. 584. 



Hypsiprymnus melanotis, Ogilby. Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society for May 1838, p. 62. 



Head moderate; ears moderate, (larger than in the 

 other species here described,) and somewhat pointed; 

 fore-legs very small; tarsi long; tail long; fur rather 

 long and soft, colour on the back rusty-red, pencilled 

 with white; on the head and sides of the body, grey- 



