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gentle herbivorous animals, their grinders presenting mere trans- 
verse ridges. They have five teeth in all, the front ones being more 
or less trenchant, and falling out with age ; so that in old Kanguroos 
we frequently find but three. Their stomach consists of two long 
sacs that are inflated at severalwplaces like a colon. The cecum 
also is large and has inflations. The radius allows a complete rota- 
tion of the fore-arm. 
In these two genera the penis is not bifurcated, but the female or- 
gans of generation are similar to those of other Marsupialia. 
M. major, Shaw; Didelphis gigantea, Gm.; Schreb. CLIII. 
(The Gigantic Kanguroo.) Sometimes six feet in height. It 
is the largest of the New Holland animals ; was discovered by 
Cook in 1779, and is now bred in Europe. Its flesh is said to 
resemble venison. ‘The young ones, which at birth are only an 
inch long, remain in the maternal pouch even when they are old 
enough to graze, which they effect by stretching out their necks 
from their domicile, while the mother herself is feeding. These 
animals live in troops, conducted by the old males. They 
make enormous leaps. It appears that we have hitherto con- 
founded under this name several species of New Holland and 
its neighbouring countries, whose fur, more or less grey, only 
varies by a trifling difference of shade.(1) There is another 
species much more anciently known : 
M. Brunii; Did. Brunii, Gm.; Schreb. CLIII.; called Pelandor 
Aroé by the Malays of Amboyna. (The Kanguroo of Aroé.) 
Larger than a Hare; brown above, fawn coloured beneath. 
Found in the islands near Banda, and in those of Solor. Eu- 
ropean naturalists had not paid sufficient attention to the de- 
scriptions of the above species given by Valentine and Le Bruyn. 
M. elegans; Halma. elegans, Per. Voy. t. xxvii. (The Ele- 
gant Kanguroo.) Size of a large Hare; transversely striped 
with brown on a greyish-white ground. Found at the island of 
St Peter. 
The fifth subdivision has two long incisors in the lower jaw 
(1) M. Geoff. distinguishes the Kanguroo enfumé, in which the grey is deeper ; 
the Kanguroo @ moustaches, which has some white on the front of the upper lip ; the 
Kanguroo a cow rouz, a little less than the others, with some red on the nape of the 
neck. Messrs Lesson and Garnot also describe a brown Kanguroo which they call 
Oualabate, Voy. de Freycin. pl. ix. We shall also probably be obliged to make 
new species of the Kanguroo roux-cannelle, (K. laniger, Quoy and Gaym.) Voy. de 
Freycin. pl. ix ; and of the Kanguroo cendré-bleuatre ; but all these Quadrupeds re- 
quire to be examined at various ages, and we must ascertain the influence of age 
and sex upon their colours, previous to a final establishment of the species. 
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