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the head was dusky ; about live or six inches of the tip of the 
tail was also dusky, or blackish. Its dimensions, as nearly 
as they could be taken from an unstuffed skin, were—length 
from nose to root of tail, 3 feet ; tail, 2 feet ; tarsus and nails, 
12 inches 6 lines; from nose to ear, 6J inches ; ear, 4 inches. 
The largest cranium I have seen of a Kangaroo belonged 
to one of these animals ; its dimensions are given in column 
No. 4, with those of some skulls of M. giganteus ; it is in 
Mr. Gould's collection, and is labelled as belonging to an 
adult male weighing ICO lbs. 
The only difference which I can perceive between Mr. 
Gould's specimens of M. ocyd ramus and the M. giganteus, 
consists in the fur of the former being shorter: they varied 
somewhat in tint, and a specimen of a Kangaroo living at the 
Zoological Society’s Gardens, which Mr. Gould regarded a? 
his M. ocydromns , differs in being of a darker colour than 
usual, and, in this respect, approaches the M. melanops. 
J/i icropus melanops. Gould. 
Fur moderate as to length, and inclining slightly to a woolly 
texture (resembling that of Alacropus giganteus); general 
colour of the upper parts, sooty brown, the upper surface of 
the head, and the back of the cars at tlic base, rather darker 
than elsewhere—nearly black ; sides of body, and outer side 
of limbs, yellowish brown ; fore-legs grey, the feet black; 
tarsi brownish white, slightly freckled with blackish towards 
the toes, which have a much greater admixture of brownish 
black, aud at the end are almost entirely of that hue; tail 
clothed at the base witli fur like that of the body, but the 
hairs become gradually shorter, more harsh, ami are closely 
applied to the skin on the apical third, where they are blnck; 
ears clothed with white lmirs internally ; externally, excepting 
at the base, the lmirs are black and white in about equal 
proportions. The lower part of the checks, throat, and chest, 
have a whitish hue, the hairs on these parts being white at 
