26 MACROPODID^. 



togr. pi. xiz.'fig. 14 c (incisors) (1855); id. Sdug. p. 678 (1859); 

 Schleg. Dierk. p. 142 (1857); WolfSrSclater, Zool. Sketches, Ti. 

 pi. xxvi. (animal) (1867) ; Ereffif Mamm. Amtr. text to pi. x. p. 1 

 (1871) ; Owen, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 418, pis. Ixxiv.-lxxxiii. (skull and 

 skeleton) (1876) ; Giebel, Bromis Kl. u. Ch-dn. \i. Abth. v. pi. xlvii. 

 fig. 21 (incisors) (1876), and pi. Isxxix. (carpus) (1883) ; Flow. ^ 

 Oars. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. u. p. 710 (1884). 



Halmaturus laniger, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Svpp. iii. p. 110 (1843); 

 v. p. 311 (1855) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 647 (1844). 



Osphranter lanigerus, Omld, Streelechi's N._ S. W. 5. 316 (1845). 



Osphranter rufus, Gould, Mamm. Austr. ii. pis. -vi. & vii. (animal) 

 (1853) ; Kr^, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 48 (1864) ; Fletcher, 

 P. lAnn. Soc. N. S. W. yii. p. 645 (1882), and viii. p. 8 (1883) 

 (anat.) ; Mikl.-Macl. P. Unn. Soc. N. S. W. ix. p. 1155 (1885) ; 

 Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 318 (1887). 



Macropus (Osphranter) pictus, Oould, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 373. 



Macropus ruber. Crisp, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 135. 



Eed Kaiigaboo. 



Size very large, form slender and graceful. Fur short, close, and 

 woolly or cottony in texture, and formed entirely by what is in 

 other species the nnderfur ; its direction variable, especially on the 

 head. Muzzle with a naked rhinarium, intermediate between those 

 of M. giganteus and M. rohustus (see PI. V. fig. 3). General colour 

 (of male) brilliant rufous. Face grey ; face-markings present, con- 

 sisting of a black whisker-mark, and below it a whitish blotch, 

 passing into a faintly defined white cheek-stripe ; these markings 

 more developed than in the other large Kangaroos, but very faint 

 compared to those of the Wallabies. Ears grey or brown outside, 

 whitish in. Chest, arms from elbows, legs from knees, groin and 

 anal region white or pale grey, the hair on these parts coarse and 

 straight, and corresponding to the ordinary upper fur of other species. 

 BeUy rufous and soft-haired like back, the rufous colour passing 

 round the animal as a broad belt, markedly difEerent from the paler- 

 coloured chest and anal region. Fingers and toes black. Central 

 hind claw short. Tail uniform grey, not darkening to end. 



Female with the colours distributed as in the male, but the rufous 

 is generally, though not invariably, replaced throughout by a peculiar 

 bluish grey, and the light-coloured parts are clearer and more dis- 

 tinctly defined. 



Skull with a very long facial and short cranial portion. Muzzle 

 slightly infiated. Wasals very long, narrow, parallel-sided, their 

 middle breadth going from 4 to 4| times in their length. Inter- 

 orbital region variable, generally slightly inflated, with faintly de- 

 fined supraorbital edges. Opening of lacrymal canal entirely sur- 

 rounded by lacrymal bone. Palatal foramina long, reaching back 

 to the suture. Anterior palate long, narrow, generally with sharply 

 defined edges. Posterior palate incomplete, with numerous small 

 vacuities in the palatine portion. 



Teeth. Incisors much longer vertically and shorter antero-poste- 

 riorly than in M. giganteus. Boots of first pair close together, their 

 tips meeting at a very acute angle. Enamel- covered part of i." from 



