512 GREAT KANGUROO. 
One of the most remarkable particularities of 
the Kanguroo is the extraordinary faculty which 
it possesses of separating at pleasure, to a con- 
siderable distance^ the two long fore teeth in the 
lower jaw. This faculty, however, is not abso- 
lutely peculiar to the Kanguroo, but takes place 
in an animal of a very different and distant ge- 
nus, viz. the Mus maritimus. (Lin. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel.) 
It should seem that there are in reality either 
different species, or at least permanent varieties of 
the Kanguroo, which are hitherto not sufficiently 
known to be exactly described. Some of these 
appear to be of a darker colour than the common 
Kanguroo, and to have a coarser fur. 
The Kanguroo may now be considered as in a 
great degree naturalized in England ; several hav- 
ing been kept for some years in the royal donjains 
at Richmond, which have, during their residence 
there, produced young, and* seem to promise to 
render this most elegant animal a permanent ac- 
quisition to our country; though it must, no 
doubt, lose, by a degree of confinement and al- 
teration of food, a part of its natural habits, and 
exhibit somewhat less of that bounding vivacity 
which so much distinguishes it in its native wilds 
of Australasia. 
