HALMATURUS BENNETTI. 
Bennett’s Wallaby. 
Head and Forearm, of the size of life. 
Three species of the larger Kangaroos are indigenous to the Island of Tasmania, or Van 
Diemen’s Land, viz. Macropus major, Halmaturus Bennetti, and H. Billardieri. Of these 
the H. Bennetti is intermediate in size, and is the most important, since its flesh is a 
staple commodity as an article of food, and its skin affords no inconsiderable profit to 
the settlers, vast numbers of skins being annually sold. 
The life-sized portrait of the upper portion of this animal will convey a just conception 
of its physiognomy, while the reduced figures, which are drawn to scale, will show how 
disproportionate in size are its hind quarters : it is these latter parts of the animal which 
are eaten by all classes, from the Governor of the colony to the stockmen. The relative 
weights and admeasurements of the two sexes are given on the succeeding page, to which 
I must therefore refer my readers for further particulars respecting the species. 
