NEW SOUTH WALES, 
K A N G U R O O, 
This very curious animal being naturally an objedt 
of particular curiolity, we are happy to be enabled, be- 
fore this book is given to the world, to corre6t fome 
errors which had crept into our account and reprefenta- 
tion of it. In page 149 it is fcated, that the Kanguroo 
has four teeth (by which were meant cutting teeth) in 
the upper jaw, oppofed to two in the under. The truth 
is, that there are fix oppofed to two, as maybe perceived 
in the engraved reprefentation of the fkeleton of a 
Kanguroo's head, inferted at page 168. The fame ar~" 
rangement of teeth takes place in the Opoffiim, de- 
fcribed in that page, v/hich is there. Hill more erroneouflyj 
faid to have only two cutting teeth oppofed to two.- 
This latter miftake arofe from the difficulty of exa- 
minins: the mouth of the livins: animal. It is fince 
dead, and the teeth are found to be difpofed as now 
Itated, and as reprefented in the fcull of the Vulpine 
Opoffum, in the fame plate with that of the Kanguroo. 
But the mofc important error is in. the pofltion of the 
Kanguroo, as reprefented in our plate at page 106. 
The true Handing poiture of the Kanguroo is exadtly the 
fame as that of the Kanguroo Rat, delineated at page 
I'P. 277,; 
289 
CHAP. 
XXII. 
