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simple, and the pupil round. They resemble most of the 

 other Didelphes in the mode of parturition and the abdo- 

 minal pouch. The colour is almost universally a dull 

 brown. 



We are told that the flesh of these animals is good for 

 eating; and, as they are found to re-produce in Europe, 

 they might easily be naturalized among us. We are also 

 told that they live in troops, conducted by the old males. 



There are other species of Kanguroos known. The Mac. 

 elegans is beautifully figured in Peron's Voyage to Austral- 

 asia. Like the Dog-faced Dasyurus, this species is also 

 marked with transverse stripes, going off from the spine 

 for about the lower half of the back. Others will be 

 found in the Table. 



We shall here insert a figure of a new species of 

 Kanguroo, discovered in Bathurst Plains in New Hol- 

 land. The drawing in our possession is by the late Mr. 

 Lewin, who accompanied the expedition to Bathurst Plains 

 in the year 1821, when the animal was first seen and 

 shot. 



His note upon the drawing is very brief, and the dimen- 

 sions are not stated, but it appears by what is said, to be 

 considerably larger than the Macropus Major, and more 

 deserving therefore of the epithet attached to that species. 

 The character of the fur is very different from that of the 

 species last mentioned, being entirely woolly and very thick. 

 The drawing includes two figures, one of a brownish yel- 

 low colour rather lighter than of the Mac. major, and the 

 other slate, inclining to puce colour, but whether these wide 

 differences in tint indicate varieties, sexual differences, or 

 distinct species, does not appear; in size, and the woolly 

 character of the hair, they both accord ; and, in reference 

 to the latter peculiarity, we have conditionally named it the 

 Woolly Kangaroo, Macropus lanigerus. 

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