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PHalmaturus albua, Qray^ Charlesw. Mag. N. H. i. p. 583 (1837). 

 Macropus bennettii, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 103; id. Cat. Mamm. 



Mus. Z. 8. p. 66 (1838) ; id. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. xi. p. 211 



(1841) ; Owen, Tr. Z. S. ii. p. 383, pi. Ixxi. (palate & teeth) (1841) ; 



Gulliver, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 50, et 1842, pp. 64-70 ; Less. N. Tabl. 



R. A., Mamm. p. 194 (1842) ; Oiven, Cat. Ost. Mus. Coll. Surg. i. 



p. 324 (1853) ; Gieb. Odontogr. p. 43, pi. xix. fig. 16 a (incisors) 



(1855); -ScA/e^r. DserA. i. p. 142 (1857) ; Gieb. Bronn'sKl.u.Ordn. 



vi. Abth. V. pi. xlvii. fig. 21 (9) (incisors) (1876) ; Flow. ^ Gars. 



Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. ii. p. 711 (1884). 

 Halmaturus ualabatus, Grajf, Charlesw. Mag. N. H. i. p. 683 (1837) 



(nee Less.). 

 Macropus (Halmaturus) fruticus, Og. Ann. Mag. N. S. i. p. 219 



(18.^8). 

 Halmaturus bennettii, Gould, Mon. Macrop. pi. vii. (animal) (1841) ; 



Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 402 (1841) ; id. List Mamm. B. M. 



p. 89 (1848) I Wagn. Sohr. Sdug, Supp. iii. p. 116 (1843), v. p. 317 



(1855) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 550 (1844) ; Gould, Mamm. 



Austr. ii. pis. xvi., XYii. (animal) (1856) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 



Mamm. B. M. p. 125 (1862) ; Blgth, Cat. Mamm. Mm. As. Soc. 



p. 184 (1863) ; Peters, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 953 ; Z-efflt, Notes Faun. 



Tasm. p. 4 (1868) ; id. Austr. Vert. p. 10 (1871) ; Gieb. Bronn's 



Kl. u. Ordn. -vi. Abth. v. pi. xxi.flgs. 8-10 (skuU) (1874) ; Schmidt, 



P. Z. <S. 1880, p. 305; Rigg. ^ Pett. P. Boy. Soc. Tasm. 1883, 



p. 196 ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 319 (1887). 

 Halmaturus fruticus, Wagn. Schr. Sang. Supp. iii. p. 118 (1843). 

 Halmaturus leptonyx, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 116 (1843) ; 



Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 554 (1844). 

 Macropus (Halmaturus) ruticollis, var. bennettii, Waterh. N. S. 



Mamm. i. p. 130, pi. v. fig. 9 (incisors) (1846). 



Bennett's Waliabt. 



Arrangement of colours as in typical variety, but the whole much 

 more sombre in tone, the bright rufous of the nape and rump re- 

 placed by dull rufous brown, the back of the ears nearly black, the 

 face-markings scarcely visible, the chest and belly dirty greyish 

 white, and the tail a darker grey. The fur is very much longer 

 and thicker, and the underfill is of a dark smoky-brown colour, 

 with scarcely a tinge of rufous. 



SlcuU and teeth precisely as in the true M. rwfkollis. 



Dimensions of a female (spec, a) stuffed : — Head and body 915 ; 

 tail (c.) 690 ; hind foot 208 ; ear 70. Skull, see p. 45. 



Hob. Tasmania. 



Type not traceable. 



I am fully at one with Mr. Waterhouse in regarding Bennett's 

 Wallaby as not specifically separable from the Australian M. rufi- 

 collis, of which it obviously forms the Tasmanian climatic represen- 

 tative, and to which it bears precisely the same relation that M. 

 fuliginosus does to M. giganteus. 



a, b. Ad. 5 & yg. st. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



c, d. Imm. st, Tasmania. Purchased. 



I 1mm. St. 1 Voy. ' Herald.' 



*■ i Skull. f 



f. Ad. skull. Tasmania. Sir R. Owen [P.]. 



d2 



