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ON APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES OF HALMATURUS. 



Inches. Inches. 



Total length of adult male 68 Of snout from the eye 3^ 



Length of tail 31 Of shank 13 i 



Of head 7 Of hind foot 10 



Of ears 3i 



With the dark shoulder-patch of ualahatus, the black hands 

 and feet of manicatus, and the sandy neck of ruficollis, this 

 wallaby equals in size the rock-loving Parryi, from which, how- 

 ever, it differs entirely, not only in colouring, but in habitat. 

 The upper surface of the head is rufous, the hairs of the crown 

 being mostly black, with a broad yellow ring in the centre ; a 

 few of them are entirely black, and an elongated pencil of stiff, 

 black hairs runs from the upper hinder edge of the orbit 

 towards the ears ; at the base of the ears an obscure spot of 

 sandy hair reminds us of apicalis. The dark-brown loreal 

 streak extends from near the eye about half way along the 

 snout ; it blends anteriorly with the dark-grey of the snout, and 

 inferiorly more or less with the suborbital streak, which is 

 brightest beneath the eye and on the hinder part of the upper 

 lip ; below this the face is grey. The hairs of the middle and 

 posterior part of the back are ringed similarly to those of the 

 head, but on the nape and fore part of the shoulders the black 

 portion of each hair becomes light-brown, and the general tint 

 is a rather bright sandy ; this merges, on the hinder part of the 

 shoulder, into a large, suffused, "reddish-brown stain, which 

 inferiorly extends under the axil. The flanks are grey, the 

 femoral stripe of the same tint, and rendered conspicuous by 

 contrast with the rufous brown of the thigh. The tail is 

 covered, for a quarter of its length at the base, with fur, rather 

 greyer in colour than that of the back ; its middle half with 

 rather sparse, adpressed, pale grey hairs, which become longer 

 and darker on the upper surface as they approach the tip, where 

 they are three-quarters of an inch long, and black ; the black 

 edge of the outer side of the ear is much expanded on the 

 anterior part of the base ; the naked muzzle and the claws are 

 black. Locality, Cape York. Collected by Mr. K. Broadbent. 

 Named in recognition of the assistance given to Mr. Broadbent 

 by Mr. F. Jardine, of Somerset. 



J Halmaturus Gazella. 



Size, small ; habit, slender ; muzzle, compressed, pointed ; 

 profile, straight, a little concave before the eyes ; ears, rather 

 large ; tail, moderate ; general colour, russet-grey, mingled with 

 much black on the back, becoming rufous-brown on the head, 

 rufous on the shank, fawn on the fore-limb, and greyish-white 



