42 MACEOrOBID^. 



I Imm. sk. I , Toodyay, W. A.. (J. Gilbert). Gould Coll. 

 "■ ) Skull. f °- 



d. Imm. sk., 5. Perth, W. A. Government of W. 



Australia [P.]. 



e. Imm. skull. Gould Coll. 

 /. Yg. sk. Purchased. 



13. ITacropus agilis. 



Halmaturus agilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 81 ; id. Mon. Macrop. 



pi. XX. (animal) (1842) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 562 (1844) ; 



jSbmbr. %■ Jacq. Voy. Pule Sud, Zool. iii. p. 36, Atl. pi. xix. 



(animal, skull and feet) (1853) ; Wagn, Schr. Saug. Supp. v. 



p. 812 (18.55) ; Gould, Mdrkm. Austr. ii. pis. xxiv. & xxV. (animal) 



(1857) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 125 (1862) ; Gray, 



P. Z. S. 1866, p. 221 1 Krefft, Mamm. Austr. text to pi. x. p. 4 



(1871) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 469 ; Jent. Cat. Ost. leyd. Mus. 



p. 318 (1887) ; Coll. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 884 (1887). 

 Halmaturus biuoe, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 58 ; Gray, List Mamm. 



B. M. p. 91 (1843); Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 565 (1844). 

 Macropus (Halmaturus) agilis, Wate?-h. 2f. H. Mamm. i. p. 108, 



pi. V. fig. 13 (incisors) (1840). 

 Macropus agilis, Gieb. Odontogr. p. 43, pi. xix. fig. 12a (incisors) 



(1855); id. Saug. p. 678 (1859); id. Bronn'g Kl. u. Ordn. vi. 



Abth. V. pi. Ixvii. figs. 21 (13) (incisors) (1876). 

 Macropus papuanus, Peters Sf Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 544 



(1875), and xvi. p. 683, pis. xv. (animal) and xvi. (skull) (1881) 



(.jw.). 

 Macropus papuensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 532. 

 Halmaturus crassipes. Bams. P. Linn. Soe. N. S. W. i. p. 162 (1876). 

 Macropus crassipes. Rams. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 395 (1876), 



iii. p. 244 (1878), iv. p. 87 (1879). 

 Halmaturus jardinii, De Vis, P. Boy. Soc. Queensl. i. p. 109 (1884). 

 Halmaturus papuanus, Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus, p. 321 (1887). 



Xgilb Wallaby. 



Porm stouter and heavier than in others of the group. Nose 

 partly hairy between the nostrils (PI. V. fig. 7). Fur short and 

 coarse. General colour dark grizzled sandy. Underfur almost 

 absent in Australian, thin and sparse in Papuan examples, pale 

 brown. Pace-markings inconspicuous ; the brown whisker-mark 

 only reaching halfway from the eye towards the nose, passing 

 below into the whitish cheek-stripe, which again is separated from 

 the white chin by a band of sandy grey. Top of head sandy brown, 

 which becomes darker between the ears, and passes down the neck 

 as an ill-defined dark nuchal line. Ears very short, their inte- 

 rior and base white or yellowish, and their back dark sandy, tipped 

 and edged anteriorly with black. Planks paler than the back. A 

 dark' brownish mark running forwards and downwards from the 

 nape to behind the elbow. A well-marked white hip-stripe always 

 present, separated from the pale flanks by a triangular portion of 

 dark sandy colour, continuous with that of the back. Chest and 

 belly white or greyish white, sometimes with a tinge of yellow. 

 Arms and legs white or pale sandy, the antero-internal side of the 



