192 THE KANGAROO*. 



GREAT KANGAROO. 



Macropus giganteus. 



Macropus giganteus, SJtaw, Naturalist's Miscellany PI. 33. 

 Macropus major, Shaw, General Zoology, Vol. I., part 2, p. 



505, PL 115. 



Didelphys gigantea, Linn. Lyst. ed Geml. p. 109. 

 Kangums labiatus, Geoff, and Desm.^ Mamm. p. 273, sp. 423. 



Ears moderate ; tail moderately long and very 

 thick ; fore limbs rather long compared with most 

 other species ; fur moderately long, neither soft nor 

 harsh ; the hairs waved and giving to the fur a slight 

 woolly character. General colour greyish-brown, 

 darker on the back and paler on the sides of the 

 body ; under parts and inner side of limbs brownish 

 white, on the chest faintly tinted with greyish ; the 

 hairs on this part obscurely tipped with dusky ; pre- 

 vailing tint of fore-legs greyish; the fore-feet grizzled 

 with black and brown-white; toes black. The hind- 

 legs externally, and the base of the tarsi, are very pale 



which I do not find combined in other species with the hairy 

 muzzle. Mr. Gould has added several new species to this 

 section, and, whilst in Australia, paid particular attention to 

 this interesting family. This naturalist, I am happy to state, 

 intends shortly to publish a Monograph on the Macropodidce, 

 on the same scale as his splendid works on birds, in which 

 all the species, (including the novelties, which, by his kind 

 permission I have been enabled briefly to notice in this work) 

 will be carefully figured and described, and further enriched 

 with copious notes on their habits and ranges. 



