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NEW SPECIES OF KANGAROOS 
At a meeting of the Zoological Society, held on the 25th 
August, 1840, specimens were exhibited of five new species of 
Kangaroo, forming part of the collection made by Mr. Gould, 
who had just returned from Australia, after an absence of two 
years and a half spent in the investigation of the habits and 
economy of the animals of that continent. 
The first of these Kangaroos to which Mr. Gould drew 
attention was a large species, but little inferior in size to the 
Macropus major , inhabiting the summits of the mountain 
ranges in the interior of New South Wales. Mr. Gould 
observed, that it is a most powerful animal, and very dangerous 
to approach. The unusual strength and size of the limbs 
suggested the specific name of robustus; and Mr. Gould 
accordingly characterised it as 
Macropus (Petrooale*) robustus. Macr. artubus an - 
tiers magnis at preerobmtis; vellere e fusco cincreo , a pud 
partes inferiores pallidiore ; tarsis fuscis; digitis antich 
nigris; antipedibus , et carpis, nig vis; capite fuliginoso 
leviter Undo; utrdque gend lined albescefite notatd; guld, 
guttureque a Ibid is ; ca udd super nefused, subtus pallidiore. 
unc. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudal basin .... 47 
- caudce . 25 
■- tarsi digitorumque (sine unguibus) .. 11 
— - -ab apice rostri ad basin auris . 8 
- auris . 3 
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Focmina diftert vellere ex argenteo cinereo, corpore subths 
fere albo. Long, corporis cum capite, 33 unc.; caudie, 26; 
tarsi digitorumque, 10 unc. 2 lin. 
The second species has a remarkably elegant appearance, 
being of a slender delicate form, and adorned witli two white 
stripes, which commencing at the occiput , run down the back 
of the neck oil to the shoulders, where they are recurved. 
Mr. Gould proposed to designate this species 
Macropus fr^enatus. Macr. elegans, et gracilis; vellere 
molli bred, colorc e fusco cincreo ; corpore subtus albo; 
ab occipite utrinque super humeros lined august d alb A 
currente ; interspatio obscuro , et apud occiput nigresccnte; 
caudd tuberculo parvo corneo ad apicem instructo, pilis 
* The Petrogale of Gray is robably identical with Jletcropus of Jourdan. 
