MACEOPTTS. 



19 



s-u. Skulls. 



V. Skull. 



w. Aged skuU, cJ 



("weight of animal 



160 lbs."). 

 X, y. Ad. skulls, c? • 

 z. Imm. skull, cJ . 

 a'. Ad. skull, 5 . 

 v. Yg. sk. (aew-born). 

 c. SkuU. 



Moore's E., W. A. (J. Gilbert). 

 Toodyay, W.A. (J. Gilbert). 

 Murray, W. A. (J. Gilbert). 



Northam W. A. {J. Gilbert). 

 Augusta B., W. A. (J. Gilbert). 

 West Australia (/. Gilbert). 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould CoD. 



Gould CoU. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Zool. Soe. 



b. Macropus giganteus, Tar. fuliginosus. 



Kangurus fuliginosus, Besm. iV. Diet. SH. N. (2) xvii. p. 35, pi. xxii. 



fig. 1 (1817) ; id. Mamm. i. p. 273 (1820) ; Geoff. Diet. Class. 



ffH. N.ix. p. 109 (1826); Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. K. v. p. 202 



(1827) ; Gerv. Hist. Nat. Mamm. ii. p. 270 (1855). 

 Macropus fuliginosus, Less. Man. Mamm. p. 225 (1827) ; FisoTi. Syn. 



Mamm. p. 281 (1829); ie«s. M.N. Mamm. {Compl. Buff.) v. 



p. 377 (1836); Waterh. Jard. Nat. lAbr., Mamm. xi. p. 200 (1841) ; 



Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 402 (1841) ; Gould, Mon. Macr. 



pi. xvi. (animal) (1842) ; Less. N. TaU. R. A., Mamm. p. 194 (1842) ; 



Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 88 (1843) ; GoxM, Mamm. Austr. ii. 



pl. V. (animal) (1858) ; Kreft, Mamm. Austr. text to pi. x. p. 1 



(1871). 

 Halmaturus fuliginosus, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 109 (1843) ; 



Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 546 (1844). 



Tasmanian Great Kafgaeoo. 



As large as, or larger than, the typical form ; fur much longer, 

 coarser, and darker in colour, the general colour being a dull smoky 

 grey, with no tinge of fawn in it ; belly white ; hands and feet 

 grizzled grey, not black at their tips. Tail grizzled grey, the 

 terminal quarter deep black. 



a (skin). 

 milliiQ. 



Head and body (c.) 1350 



Tail (c.)1000 



Hind foot 359 



Ear (c.) 120 



SkuU (basal length) ...... 195 



Rah. Tasmania. 

 ,, Type in the Paris Museum. 



This is obTiously the usual Tasmanian climatic variety of t\e 

 Common Kangaroo, and its modifications are just those which might 

 have been expected. 



The original habitat of this form was said to be Kangaroo 

 Island, South Australia, where Desmarest states, but with some 

 doubt, that it was obtained by Peron and Lesueur. This doubt is 



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