3. ONTCHO&ALE. 



77 



Dimeitsions. 



<^- . 

 a (stuffed). 



millitn. 



Head and body 650 



Tail . . , 450 



Hind foot 152 



Ear 62 



Skull, see p. 79. 



Ilab. Eastern Australia, from Queensland to 

 Type in coUection. 



a. Ad. St., (S . New South Wales. 



b. Ad. St., 5 . New South Wales. 



, llmm. sts. I ,(,„ Oakey Creek, Darlinar 



"' ^- \ Skull of ^. [ <? * ? ■ DoVns, N. S. W. 



„ ) Imm. sks. I New South Wales. 

 "'J- \ Skull of e. f 



g. Imm. skeleton ( cJ ). New South Wales. 



S- 



-b (stuffed), 

 millim. 



460 



380 



120 



60 



Victoria. 



Gould Coll. {Type 



of species.) 

 Gould Coll. 

 Goidd Ooll. 



Zool. Soc. (Gould 



Coll.). 

 Purchased. 



3. Onycliogale lunata. 



Macropus lunatus, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1840, p. 93 ; Gray, Grey's Avstr., 

 App. ii. p. 402 (1841) ; Waterh. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. xi. 

 p. 203 (1841) ; Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 194 (1842) ; Gray, 

 List Mamm. B. M. p. 88 (1843) ; Gerv. H. N. Mamm. ii. p. 270 

 (1855) ; Gieb. Sang. p. 675 (1859) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. 

 B. M. p. 126 (1862). 



Halmaturus lunatus, ScMnz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 648 (1844) ; Wagn. 

 Schr. Siiug. Snpp. v. p. 304 (1855). 



Macropus (Onychogalea) lunatus, Waterh. iV. H. Mamm. i. p. 79 

 (1846). 



Onychogale lunata, Gould, Mamm. Ausir, ii. pi. Iv. (animal) (1849) ; 

 Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 53 (1864) ; id. Austr. Vert. 

 p. 11 (1871) ; F. G. Waterh. Hare. S. Austr. p. 285 (1876). 



Ckescbnt Wallaby. 



Size and proportions much, as in 0. frenata. Ehinarium narrow, 

 the base of the internasal septum naked. Fur soft and woolly ; under- 

 fur long, slaty at base, pale grey terminally. General colour dark 

 grey. Face grey, a mark over eye and cheek-stripe slightly paler. 

 Ears short, white inside, brown out. Back and sides of neck uniform 

 rich rufous, this colour coming from the rufous tips of the underfur 

 passing gradually into the dark grey of the back. White shoulder- 

 stripe very prominent, running backwards from the white of the 

 belly and ending abruptly over the scapula, not encroaching upon 

 the back of the neck. Sides paler than back ; a whitish stripe just 

 above the hip and another parallel to it in the usual position of the 



