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277 ; namely, with the rump feveral inches from the 
groundj (in large fpecimens, not lefs than eight) and 
refting entirely on the long laft joint of the hinder legs, 
the whole under fide of which is bare and callous like 
a hoof. This miftake was occafioned merely by the 
adherence of the engraver to the drawing from which 
he worked ; which, among others, came from Mr. White, 
the fiirgeon at Port Jackfon : too implicit reliance being 
placed on an authority which, in this refpe6t, turned out 
delufive. 
With refpedl to the reprefentations of the Kanguroo 
which have hitherto been publiflied, it may be obferved, 
that nothing is wanting to that in Captain Cook's firfl 
voyage, except the charadter of the toes of the hinder 
legs, and in particular the diftinguifiiing of a minute, 
but very charadteriftic circumftance, in the inner claw 
of each, which is divided down the middle into two, 
as if fplit by fome iliarp infcrument. The fame remark 
is applicable to the plate in Mr. Pennant's Hiftory of 
Quadrupeds, which appears to have been copied from 
the other. Mr. Pennant was the firft author who gave 
a fcientific defcription of the Kanguroo, in his Hiftory 
of Quadrupeds, p. 306. No. 184. and of the New Hol- 
land Opoffum, p. 310. No. 188. 
Zimmerman, in his Zoologia Gcographica, p. 527, 
-confounds the Kanguroo with the great Jerboa of 
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