A KANGAROO OF N£W SOUTH WALES 



"An 'old man' kangaroo standing on his hind legs and tail, with his head as high as that 

 of a man, is no mean antagonist. He boxes skillfully, and with his powerful hind leg and 

 claw can rip up a dog at a single stroke. When streams or lakes are handy, he seizes a dog, 

 or even a man, and holds him beneath the water until life is extinct" (see text, page 500). 



Australia may be said to be a museum in which animals that became extinct in other 

 parts of the world ages ago still persist in a modified form. The kangaroo is a representa- 

 tive of the general type — the marsupial. And of the kangaroos there are many species, from 

 the big grays and reds, the size of a man, to creatures no larger than mice (see page 407). 



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