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IVIACROPUS. KANGUROO. 
Generic Character, 
Denies Primores superiores 
sex, emarginati. 
Inferiores duo, maximi. Ion* 
gissimi, acuminati, antror- 
sum porrecti. 
Mo/ares utrinque quinque, 
remoti. 
Pedes antici brevissimi : postici 
longissimi. 
FoUiculus al?domwaIis£(£mm2£, 
Front-teeth in the upper jaw 
six*, emarginated. 
In the lower jaw two, very 
large, long, sharp, and 
pointing forwards. 
Grinders five on each side, 
both in the upper and 
lower jaw, distant from 
the other teeth. 
Fore Legs very short : hind 
legs very long. 
Abdominal pouch in the fe- 
male. 
GREAT KANGUROO. 
Macropus Major. M. suhfuscus, auricuUs subacuminatis, fedibiis 
anticis tetradactylis. 
Brownish Kanguroo^ with sharpish cars and pentadactylous fore 
feet. 
Macropus giganteus. Great Kanguroo. Naturalisfs Miscellany^ 
pl' 33- 
Didelphis gigantea. Ldn. Syst.Nat.Gmel, p. 109. Schreb. 1. 154, 
Kanguroo. Cook's wy. (Hawkesuo,) 3. p. ^'J'J.pL 20. Phillips*s 
'voy. p. 105. pi. 10, White's toy. p. 272. pi. 54, 
Of all the animals which the vast island, 01% 
to speak more properly, continent of Australasia, 
* In the young or half- grown animal, eight. 
V, I. P. II. 33 
