214 THE KANGAROOS. 



,'iese are thrust straight forward, and the fore-feet nre 

 placed on the ground. 



. Mr. Gunn says this species " is hy far the most 

 common everywhere, (in Van Diemen's Land,) easily 

 overtaken hy swift Kangaroo dogs, and used most 

 generally for food. When roasted, or the tail made 

 into soup, it bears a pretty resemblance to hare, and 

 is universally esteemed/' " The skins are tanned, 

 and is the only kind of leather used in the colony for 

 the uppers of ladies' and gentlemens' boots and shoes. 

 Many thousands of skins are annually exported from 

 Van Diemen's Land to New South Wales for the 

 same purpose. 



" The Kangaroos usually feed at night, and in the 

 evenings and mornings, but they are exceedingly 

 sharp-sighted at day time." Ann. Nat. Hist., Vol. 

 I., p. 105-6. 



WHITE KANGAROO. 



Macropus albus. 

 Macropus albus, Gray. Spicilegia Zoologica, Part II., p. 10. 



c< The fur soft, thick, and rather woolly, dirty 

 yellow- white; the soles of the hind-feet bald, black; 

 the ears rather long, reaching rather beyond the front 

 of the eye, ovate, acute ; the outer side, the edge, 

 and upper half of the inner side covered with rather 

 long scattered white hairs ; the tail thick and short, 

 not reaching to the shoulders, the end perhaps 

 destroyed. 



