KANGAROO. 
-The fore legs are so very short, as scarcely 
to reach the nose, and are said to be useless 4 
for walking. The hind legs are almost as, 
long as . the body, and the thighs are very 
thick. On the fore feet are five toes, with 
long conic and strong black claws ; but on 
the hind feet there are only three, the middle 
toe being very long and thicjk> like that of an,, 
ostrich, and extending far beyond the two 
others, which are small, and placed very dis- 
tin6i: from it. The inner toe of the hind feet 
is singularly distinguished, by havjng two , 
small claws; and the bottom and hind partj^^ 
of the feet, on which the animal often rests,. 
are black, naked, and tuberculated. The tail, 
\vhich is thick at the base, and tapers to a 
point, has at the end a strong hard nail, and 
the hair on it is short and somewhat hard. 
The tail, though long in the old, is in the 
young short proportionably to the animal's- 
size. *^ It would seem," says Mr. White, 
** to keep pace with the growth of the hind 
legs, which are the instruments of progressive 
motion in this animal, and which would also 
shew that the tail is a kind of second instru- 
ment in this adion.** 
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