GREAT KANGAROO. 
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on these parts being mostly of them broadly tipped with 
whitish; upper surface of muzzle dusky-brown; around 
angle of mouth whitish ; ears rather large, w ith long white 
hairs internally, and with dusky hairs on the outer surface: 
fore feet dusky-brown, the toes black ; hind feet brown- 
white, the toes brown-black, and black at the extremity ; 
tail black at the apex. 
Tub Great Kangaroo was discovered in 1770, during Cook’s 
first voyage, whilst that celebrated navigator was stationed on 
the coast of New South Wales, to repair his vessel, which 
was in a very dangerous condition, having struck on a rock 
(and, indeed, was only saved by a portion of the rock, which 
broke off, and in a great measure filled the hole it hud mado). 
The Kangaroo was first seen by a party sent out to procure 
food for the sick. On the billowing day Cook himself and 
Sir Joseph (then Mr.) Banks had the pleasure of beholding 
this extraordinarv animal, and soon afterwards a specimen 
wus shot, from which, in all probability, the notes were made, 
and the figure drawn, which are published in Dr. Ilawkcs- 
worth’s Account of the Voyage (p. .701, fig. 20, and pp. 577- 
578). Skins of the animal, however, appear to have been 
brought home, from which some slight additional matter wits 
added to the descriptions by Pennant, who gives the dimen¬ 
sions of the “ largest skin” be examined; and it is probably 
from the same source that Dr. Shaw discovered the two, 
united, little inner toes, which lmd not previously been 
noticed. 
The earliest technical name applied to the animal was that 
of Yerbua gigantea , given by Zimmerman 1 , in 1777; and 
in the following year it received the name of Dideljthis 
gigantea , from Sclireber 2 . The accounts of both of these 
1 Zoologize Geographical Quadrupedum, p. 526. 
: Saugethiere, vol. iii. p. 552, PI. 154 (copied from the Plate iu Ilawkes- 
worth). 
