HALMATURUS BRACHYURUS. 
Short-tailed Wallaby. 
Head, Arms, Hind Foot, and Tail, of the size of nature. 
The most remarkable feature in the zoology of Australia is, undoubtedly, the great number 
of the Kangaroos, and the diversity of their eharaeters, some being eonspicuous for their 
great size, others for their handed or ereseentic markings, and others again for their 
sombre hues and their diminutive sizes. Of that seetion of the family to whieh the 
generie appellation of Halmaturus has been assigned, the Short-tailed Wallahy is the 
smallest. Its nearest ally is the H. Billardieri, to whieh it assimilates not only in the 
shortness of its ears and the shaggy eharaeter of its fur, hut in its stiU more sombre 
hues, whieh latter feature indieates that it dwells among grassy and dense herbage, in 
swampy and humid situations. 
The H. hrachyurus is a native of Western Australia, the H. Thetidis of New South 
Wales, and the H. Billardieri of islands of Tasmania and Bass’s Straits ; and thus we find 
these little Wallaby s distributed along the whole of the south eoast, from east to west. 
The exaet loealities frequented by these animals will he found in the pages aeeompanying 
the entire representations of eaeh of them. 
