i68 AVOYAGETO 
CHAP. Since ftating the dimenfions of the kanguroo, in page 
1 06, Lord Sydney has received from Governor PhilUp, 
a male of a much larger lize, which meafures as fol^ 
lows. 
Length from the point of the nofe to the end f. in, 
of the tail, — — 8 5 
Length of the tail, — — 3 i 
— - — head, — — o n 
— — • fore legs, — — 20 
hind legs — - — 3 7 
Circumference of the fore part by the legs, i 9 
— — lower parts — — 4 5 
Round the thicker part of the tail, which gra- 
dually tapers to the end. — — I i 
The above is the largeft kanguroo that has yet been 
feen, and there is every reafon to believe that even this 
had not nearly attained its full growth. 
Lieutenant Shortland defcribes them as feeding in 
herds of about thirty or forty, and affures us, that one 
is always obfervcd to be apparently upon the watch, at 
diftance from the reft. 
CHAP- 
