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authors, as well as those of Pennant 1 (in the first edition of 
his History of Quadrupeds), and Gmelin 2 , which followed, 
are founded on the materials collected in Cook’s.Voyage. 
Governor Phillip 3 , and White 4 , in their Voyages, add further 
matter towards completing the history of this animal; and 
we find a summary (including some original observations, 
made upon living specimens, subsequently brought over to 
this country), given by Pennant, in die third edition of his 
general work upon Quadrupeds, which, so far as the habits 
and external characters of the Great Kangaroo arc concerned, 
leave hut little to bo desired. Nor were appropriate generic 
and specific names wanting; Dr. Shaw having, in the mean¬ 
time, supplied the deficiency of a proper generic title in 
the part of his Naturalists' Miscellany published in 1790, 
(Plate 33). We find, however, a number of new names 
given to tho Kangaroo many years afterwards. There is, 
indeed, such a varioty of names and different combinations of 
generic and specific appellations, that we have thought it 
desirable not to burden these pages with more than a few, 
which appeared necessary as a key, moro especially, to the 
works of the principal authors on Mammalogy. 
The Great Kangaroo inhabits New Soudi Wales, Southern 
and Western Australia, and Van Diemen's Land, and is 
known to the colonists by the names “Boomer" and “ For¬ 
rester." In tho older works it is said to be called Kangaroo 
by tho natives; and Mr. Gould informs us, it is the 
“ Bundaar y” of tllc Aborigines of the Liverpool range. It 
prefers low grassy hills and plains, and open parts of the 
1 V ”'- "• P* 3 °8* p| - 35 : («he figure, like that given by Schrcbcr, is copied 
from the Plate in Cook's Voyage). 
- Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmcl. vol. i. 109. 
‘ The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, p. 101, l'l. 10. 
Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales; appendix by John Hunter, 
p. 272, and Plate, 3 
