HALMATURUS UALABATUS. 
Black Wallaby. 
Head and Fore Quarters, of the natural size. 
This huge Wallaby is an inhabitant of morasses, mangrove-swamps, and humid woods ; and, 
so far as I am aware^ New South Wales is the only part of Australia it frequents. Its 
charaeteristics are its black and rich rusty-red colouring, its shaggy thick coat, short ears, 
and long swinging tad. It stands quite alone among the great family of Kangaroos, there 
being no other species with which it can be confounded. The weight of an old male is 
about sixty pounds, while that of the female is considerably less. Its flesh is eaten both 
by the natives and settlers, but, so far as I recoUect, is not so palatable as that of H. 
rujicollis or H. Bennetti. 
Very correct reduced figures will be found on the next Plate, and a fuU description on 
the opposite page. 
