30 MACROPOBIB^. 



Group II. LAEGE WALLABIES. 



The members of this group are very closely allied in size and other 

 external characters, but there is a rather greater diversity in the 

 proporfions of their skulls than in the last group. Their coloration 

 is bright and ornamental, especially on the face ; their size is fairly 

 uniform (hind foot about 160-240 millim.), and there is less dif- 

 ference in this respect than occurs among the Eangaroos. Their 

 feet are larger in proportion to the size of their bodies than is the 

 ease in the small Wallabies, which they probably exceed very con- 

 siderably in their saltatory powers. In their skulls the palate is, as 

 a rule, much more incomplete than in the Kangaroos, and their third 

 incisor is always provided with a single well-marked external notch, 

 placed at or about the centre of the tooth. The molars, compared 

 ..with those of the larger species, are characterized by always having 

 at the antero-extemal corner of the tooth a well-marked connecting- 

 ridge joining the anterior transverse ledge to the body of the tooth, 

 while, on the other hand, the median anterior connecting-ridge, 

 prominent in most of the Kangaroos, is small or entirely absent. 



7. Macropus ualabatus*. 

 a. Macropus ualabatus, yar. typicus. 



Kangurus bruni, Desm. N. Diet. d'S. N. (2) xvii. p. 42 (1817) ; id. 



Mamm. i. p. 275 (1820, nee Schreb.). 

 Kangurus ualabatua, Zess. ^ Oarn. Voy. CoqvMk, Zool. i. p. 161, 



pi. vii. (animal) (1826). 

 Macropus ualabatus. Less. Man. Mamm. p. 227 (1827) ; Fisch. Syn. 



Mamm. p. 283 (1829) ; Less. H. N. Mamm. {Compl. Buffi) v. p. 378 



(1836) ; Waterh. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z. 8. p. 66 (1838) ; id. Jard. 



Nat. Misc. Mamm. xi. p. 219, pi. xx. (animal) (1841) ; Less. N. 



Tahl. JR. A., Mamm. p. 194 (1842) ; QiAel, Odontogr. p. 43, pi. xix. 



fig. 11 e (incisors) (1865) ; id. Sdug. p. 680 (1859) ; id. Bronn's El. 



u. Ordn. vi. Abth. v. pi. xlvii. fig. 21 (12) (1876) ; Lyd. Cat. Foss. 



Mamm. B.M. v. p. 219 (1887). 

 Halmaturus lessoni, Qray, Charleiw. Maxj. N. H. i. p. 683 (1837) ; 



id. Qi-ey's Austr., App. ii. p. 402 (1841). 

 Halmaturus ualabatus, Oray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 402 (1841) ; 



Oould, Mon. Macrop. pi. xviii. (animal) (1842); Gray, List Mamm. 



i?.ilf.p.89 (1843); G'oMW,ii!fa»ijn.^Mgi5>Mi.pIs.xxii.&xxiii.(ammal) 



(1857) ; Oerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 125 (1862) ; Blyth, 



Cat. Mamm. Mus. As. Soc. p. 184 (1863) ; Kr^, Cat. Mamm. 



Austr. Mus. p. 49 (1864) ; id. Mamm. Austr. pi. xi. (animal) 



(1871) ; Fletcher, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii.p. 8 (1883) ; Poulton, 



P. Z. S. 1883, p. 600 (anat.) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mm. p. 319 



(1887). 



* a. Fur longer. Pace-markingB dull and indistinot. 



Sab. S^ew South Wales and Victoria a.' Var. 



b. Fur shorter. Face-markings bright and con- 

 spicuous. Hob. Queensland b. Var, apicalis, p. 32. 



