4r;2 A new Tree- Kangaroo from British N'eio Guinea. 



Cofiipes. Two skins with skulls {S & ?)) collected lltli 

 and 14th April, 1908, respectively, by Mr. A. J. C. Molyneux, 

 and presented to the Rhodesia Museum. 



Although this species is remarkably like G. darlingi in 

 outward appearance, its larger size is sufficient to distinguish 

 it, while the less extended white patch on the crown and 

 absence of white patches below the ears and on the throat 

 }>revent its being; confused with G. dainareasis and G. lechei, 

 'i hos. 



LVII. — A new Iree-Kangaroo from British JSew Guinea. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



The British Museum owes to Mr. Walter Goodfellow the 

 skin and skull of a remarkable new tree-kangaroo of the 

 genus J )endrolagus, which was shot by its donor during his 

 recent journey in search of paradise-birds in the mountains of 

 ])ritish New Guinea. It is related to the striking species 

 Dendrolagus matsc/nei, Foerst. & Bothsch.*, from German 

 New Guinea, the type specimen of which has been kindly 

 lent me by Mr. Rothschild for comparison. 

 The new species may be called 



Dendrolagus goodfelloioi , sp. n. 



A rufous-brown species with j^ellow feet, dark red ears; 

 mottled tail, and two yellowish lines on the loins. 



Fur straight, not woolly, about 2^-5 cm. in length on the 

 back ; the hairs directed forwards and backwards from a 

 pair of prominent whorls about halfway along the back ; 

 in 1), matschiei, the hair-division takes place at about the 

 same point, but the whorls are less distinct. General coloui' 

 above dark bistre-brown, suffused with rufous, the latter 

 colour bt coming more dominant posteriorly ; the bases of the 

 hairs rufous, their median portion blackish and their ends 

 tipped with shining butty or drab, which gives a finely 

 grizzled appearance to the body. Under surface and inner 

 side of limbs ochraceous, becoming more rufous on the belly, 

 where the light colour is narrowed to a breadth of only about 

 o inches, owing to the extension downwards of the dark 

 colour of the flanks. Head dull russet- brown, its hairs 

 directed backwards to a hair-crest ruiming across between 

 the anterior corners of the ears ; the muzzle but little lighter 



* Nov. Zool. xiv. pi. iv. (1907). 



