APPENDIX. 
WHA TAPOAU ROO. 
This animal is about tlie fize of a Racoon, is of a dark, 
grey colour on the back, becoming rather lighter on the 
fides, which terminates in a rich brown on the belly. The 
hair is of two kinds, a long hair, and a kind of fur, and 
even the long hair, at the roots, is of the fur kind. 
The head is fhort ; the eyes rather prominent ; the ears 
broad, not peaked. 
The teeth refemble thofe of all the animals from that 
country I have hitherto feen. 
The incifors are not continued into the grinders by inter- 
mediate teeth, although there are two teeth in the interme- 
diate fpace in the upper jaw, and one in the lower. The 
incifors are fimilar to thofe of the Kangaroo, and fix in num- 
ber in the upper jaw, oppofed by two in the lower, which 
have an oblique furface extending fome diftance from their 
edge, fo as to increafe the furface 'of contact. 
There are two cufpidati on each fide in the upper jaw, and 
only one in the lower ; five grinders on each fide of each 
jaw, 
