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 THE KANGUROO. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Six Cutting Teeth in the uppermoft jaw, flightly emarginated. 

 Two very ftrong Sharpened Teeth in the lower jaw, pointing forwards. 

 Grinders on each fide 4 — 5, diftant from the other teeth. 

 Fore Legs very fhort ; Hind Legs very long. 

 Female furniflied with an abdominal pouch. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Kanguroo, with tail gradually attenuated. Naturalifl's Mifcellany. pi. 33. 

 Kanguroo Opoffum. Penn. Hift. Qiiadr. ed. 3. vol. 2. p. 29. pi. 64. 

 Kanguroo. Cook's Voyage. 3. 557. pi. 20. 



THE Kanguroo, the moft extraordinary and ftriking animal which the 

 Southern Hcmifphere has yet exhibited to our view, may admit of be- 

 ing differently arranged by fyftematic naturalifts. If we take into confider- 

 ation the very remarkable particularity of the abdominal pouch with which 

 the female is provided, we may, with Gmtlin, Schreber, Pennant, and others, 

 rank it in the genus Didelphis, or Opojfiim : but if we advert to the form, 

 ftrudure, and fituation of the the teeth, we fliall find them fo totally dif- 

 ferent from the animals of that geuus as to preclude all poffibility of an 



alTociation 



