212 NOTICE OF A NEW FOSSIL EXTINCT SPECIES OF KANGAROO. 
spi exemplifying the ‘ orf ating and the ‘diprotodont’ 
-orders—and that, in the formal or Lecig aie characters of the 
6th, species 5 divenged from tha common carnivorous or insecti- 
vorous types in Sty and Tylaotherinn, to the Me ae See 
type in a it and seh onl lg ne direction, an 
various specie: ed, the chief material quoted being 
of a popular character than the details, and yet sufficiently 
nectar to neouragement of Australian explorers 
_ in the discovery of the extinct ve whose remains have not 
yet reached their full investigatio 
ay I be pardoned -for ea that, scabies necessary it 
may be to the progress of the present occupants of the prairie 
law in some of our eae nm which will fe earried out without 
compunction when the in t of the squatter requires it, it is 
not improbable that s cn species ne  diiecaaien by t 
scientific and unscientific alike will be included in the “iaugtee 
and ere long Kangaroos may te creatures of the past, as well as 
the —— tribes wii. are fast dying ou 
u 
effectually the species that are extinct. Such may still bea source 
of difficulty: in the researches of comparative anatomists, and as 
_ new extinct — will probably’be discovered, it would be well 
those who are making a full end of the Macropide would save 
at least some of the hitherto unnoticed species’ for investigation. 
whether or nsideration has influence, there is & 
referred to in the paper on Dromornis would make it a consci- 
Paiste act to carefully preserve all relics of extinct creatures 
found in the course of their excavations, many new ‘species, 
as wal as those of Dromornis and Sthenurus, may be obtained for 
the service of Paleontologists, and towards the progress of 
general knowledge in the community. 
