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éured at Port Essington: its fur is rather short, adpressed, and 
harsh to the touch: the general colour is sandy yellow, but the 
upper parts of the head and body are freely pencilled with blackish, 
the hairs being of this colour at the point. The chin, throat, and chest 
are nearly pure white, and the hairs on these parts are uniform to 
the base: on the belly the hairs are sandy yellow next the skin, but 
whitish at the point. The limbs are of a pale sandy yellow tint 
externally, and white on the inner side. On the fore-feet the hairs are 
also of a pale sandy yellow tint, but they are pencilled with blackish. 
The hind-feet are nearly white, but on the toes many of the hairs 
assume a rusty hue. The upper surface of the head is rather paler 
than the body ; the lips are whitish, and a whitish mark extends 
backwards from the lips and terminates beneath the eye: running 
parallel with, and joining this mark, is another mark, which is of a 
dusky hue. The ears are of moderate size, somewhat pointed, white 
within, and of the same colour as the upper surface of the head ex- 
ternally, excepting at the apex, where they are rather broadly mar- 
gined with black, and a narrow black line runs along the anterior 
edge. On each side of the rump is an oblique whitish line. The 
tail is rather sparingly clothed with short adpressed hairs, and these 
are nearly white, excepting on the upper surface at the base, where 
they are of the same hue as those on the back, and along the dorsal 
surface is a yellowish line: on the under surface the hairs of the tail 
are of a dirty white colour, and at the apex they are black. 
The last species belongs to the division of the Kangaroos to which 
Mr. Gould has applied the name Lagorchestes, and is remarkable 
for the circle of bright rust-coloured hairs which surround the eyes, 
a character which suggested the specific name given. 
LacorcHEstrs consPicILLatus. Lag. vellere ut in Lepore timido ; 
artubus parvis ; caudd fere quoad longitudinem cum corpore co- 
equale ; capite corporeque supra fuscescentibus et flavescenti-albo 
nigroque adspersis ; corporis partibus inferioribus sordide albis ; 
lateribus ferrugineo-flavescentibus ; caudd pilis brevibus sordideé 
albis parce indutd ; tarsis sordide albis ; auribus intis pilis flaves- 
centi-albis ; oculis pilis ferrugineis circumdatis ; vellere corporis 
superioris ad radicem nigro. 
une. Jin. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad apicem caude.. 32 6 
CT RN Seen ech ocrdake Saree marke 13 6 
— tarsi digitorumque ..........+..- 5 3 
antebrachii et pedis antict........ 3 O 
ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 3 3 
Di tan Bloc OD cree oe acotted thee: 1 3 
This httle animal was procured at Barrow Island, on the north- 
west coast of Australia ; in size as well as in the colouring and texture 
of the fur it very nearly resembles the Common Hare (Lepus timidus, 
Auct.). From Lagorchestes leporoides it may be distinguished by the 
shortness of its ears and the want of a black patch at the base of the 
fore-leg. As in L. leporoides, it has the eyes encircled with reddish 
