ORDER OF MARSUPIALS. 
23 
Prevost rightly, they are remarkable for their great development 
of those parts of which the meat is most esteemed, such as the 
loins, the buttocks, and the thighs. Certain species, moreover, 
have excellent and very choice fur. One might at the same time 
domesticate them, and let them live freely wild with Hares, 
Babbits, and other game. Very curiously, these animals can 
move their large lower incisors so as to snip or cut the herbage 
in the manner of a pair of shears. 
About fifty species of Kangaroo are already known, varying 
Fig. 6. — Kangaroo Kat, or Potoroo. 
: extremely in size. Some are more than a metre in length : for 
instance, the Giant Kangaroo (Fig. 4), the Bed Kangaroo, &c. 
Others, and these are the greatest in number, do not exceed a 
metre. Lastly, there are some whose size is so small, that they 
have been called Kangaroo Bats (Fig. 6) ; they are also called 
Potoroos (Hypsiprymnus ) . Indeed, several other divisions have 
lately been established among the Kangaroos, the most remarkable 
of which is that of the Tree Kangaroos (Dendrolagas) of Hew Guinea, 
which has been already referred to.^ These would appear to pass 
