248 THE KANGAROOS. 



lowish white ; feet brown ; tarsi grey-brown ; upper 

 surface of head palish brown ; occiput dusky ; upper 

 lip dirty white,, and a mark of the same colour runs 

 backwards, from near the angle of the mouth, under 

 the eye : near the base of the fore-leg is a brown 

 patch. Tail well clothed with harsh hairs ; those 

 on the upper surface of the tail are nearly of the 

 same general tint as the fur of the body ; on the 

 under side they are pale-brown ; the apical half of 

 the tail is furnished with long bushy sooty- black 

 hairs. The ears are small and pointed. 



Length from nose to root of tail, 21 inches; tail, 

 28 1 inches; tarsus, 5 inches; ear, 1 inch 11 lines; 

 nose to ear, 3 inches 8 lines. 



Besides the foregoing Kangaroos, there are certain 

 species which inhabit New Guinea, the characters of 

 which not being published, I am unable to introduce 

 in this work. These Kangaroos, however, possess 

 the power of climbing trees, and have been associated 

 under the generic title Dendrolagus * I presume 

 their extremities are considerably modified to suit 

 them to such habits, and they no doubt form an in- 

 teresting link between the true Kangaroos and the 

 Phalangers. 



* See the work entitled " Over de Zoogdieren van den Indis- 

 clien Archipel, door Salomon Muller." In the published parts 

 of this work, only the names of the animals alluded to are as 

 yet mentioned. In the table of the New Guinea Marsupials 

 given in MUller's work, the following species are noticed : 

 Phascogale melas, Perameles Doreyanus, Hypsiprymnus Brunii^ 

 Dendrolagus ursinus, and Dend. inustus, Phalanyista maculate, 

 and Petaurus sciureus. 



