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DENDROLAGUS URSINUS, mm«-, 



AND 



DENDROLAGUS INUSTUS, Muiier. 



A FIGURE of each of these two very remarkable and highly interesting species of Tree Kangaroos has been given 

 in the fine work now publishing by my friend M. Temminck, entitled " Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke geschie- 

 denis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen," &c.; but as the text appertaining to those plates has not yet appeared, 

 I am unable to give any further account of them than has been conveyed to me in a letter received from M. Temminck, 

 who says : — 



" The two species were discovered by our traveller M. S. M tiller 'during his researches in New Guinea, and who has pro- 

 posed for them the names here given : they were found at Triton Bay, and also inhabit the interior of the country ; they are 

 arboreal in their habits, climbing trees with the utmost facility.-' 



M. Temminck adds, that M. Muller will shortly publish a highly interesting account of the habits and economy of 

 these extraordinary animals, which will be given in the third part of this Monograph, 



