GREAT KANGAROO. 
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the point; but below the point they arc grey, ns arc also the 
hairs on the abdomen, which are less distinctly tipped with 
white. 
Length, from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail 57 0 
“ of tail .. 24 6 
" of ta»i and claws . 12 0 
*' from tip of nose to car ... . 6 4 
" of car ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 8 
*' of fore-arm and hand to end of nails, about 10 0 
The only specimen I have seen of the M. me la naps is that 
in the British Museum, which is a male, and is the original 
of Mr. Gould's description. It has no skull, and hence I 
have no opportunity of examining and comparing its teeth 
with those of M. giganteus , from which species it differs only 
(so far as I can perceive) in having its fur of a much darker 
hue, it being much suffused with sooty black, mid the upper 
surface of the head being almost entirely black. 
MACROPUS FULIGINOSUS. Sooty Kangaroo. 
Kan guru t fuliginosut. 
Kanguroo gi'ant. 
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Macropus fuliginosut. 
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Desu. Nout. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. tom. xrii. p. 35 f 
PI. E. 22 (K. grant). 1817. Mammal, pt. 1, 
p. 203. 1820. 
F. Cuvier, et Geoff. Hut. Nat. dcs Mamm. 
fasc.2. 1819. 
F. Cuvier, in Diet. desSci. Nat. xxiv.p. 347. 1822. 
Lesson, Manuel de Mamm. p. 223. 1827. 
Gould's Monogr. of theMacrop. pt. 2, PI. 1. 
Waterii. Nat. Libr., Marsupialia, p. 200. 1811. 
Gray, List of the Mamm. in the Collection of the 
Btit. Mus. p. 88. 1843. 
About the same size as Macr. gnu tens: general colour yellowish- 
brown ; toes and apical third of the tail blackish ; fur long, 
and inclining to a woolly texture: long fur, like that of the 
body, extends on to the base of the tail, covering rather 
more than one-tliird of its length ; on the remaining portion 
the hairs are short and adpressed; a large dusky patch on 
