126 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. | Mar. 10, 
of a species allied to the Red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus), about 
half-grown. After careful examination, Mr. Sclater had failed in 
his endeavours to associate this specimen with any described species, 
and therefore proposed as its temporary designation 
MaAcRroPUS ERUBESCENS, sp. nov. (Plate X.) 
General size and appearance that of a young female Red Kan- 
garoo (Macropus rufus), but rather larger than the specimen of the 
latter species born in September last (with which it is now asso- 
ciated), and ears distinctly larger, and fur thinner and longer, 

Macropus erubescens. 
Body above pinkish grey, mixed with black hairs, except on nape and 
upper back ; below paler, mesially white. Tail pale brown. Hands 
and feet blackish. Ears large, on the outer surface blackish, and 
nearly naked or sparingly covered with very short blackish hairs, as 
in M. melanops. Vertical stripe between the ears and nose black. 
Hab. Vicinity of Lake Hope, 200 miles in the interior from Port 
Augusta, head of Spencer’s Gulf, South Australia. 
Obs. Mr. Gould, in his ‘Mammals of Australia’ (Intr. p, xxix), 
