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MACROPODID&. 
with which the tail is armed at this part; at the sides, the 
apical portion of the tail is brown, and beneath, where they 
are longer, they arc brown-black. A whitish mark nearly 
crosses the haunches, running backwards from near the knee. 
Male. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 2G 0 
„ of tail ... . 27 0 
y , of tarsus, including the nail ... 7 6 
,, from tip of muzzle to ear . 4 0 
,, of car ... ... ... ... 2 7 
Width of ditto ... ... ... . 1 5 
Length of fore arm aud hand, including the 
nails, about ... ... ... ... 5 9 
Height in ordinary erect position, about ... 22 0 
Inhabits the north-west coast of Australia. 
I believe the only specimen which has reached Europe of 
the interesting species, is that deposited in the British 
Museum by Mr. Bynoe, of Her Majesty’s ship, The Beagle, 
which was procured by that gentleman on the north-vest 
coast of Australia. It is beautifully figured by Mr. Gould, 
in his Monograph of the MacropodidUe. 
The Macropus unguifer , so called from the circumstance 
of its tail being furnished at the tip with a nail-like homy 
excrescence, together with the Macropus frtvnatus , which 
has likewise a homy termination to the tail, form a little 
section, to which Mr. Gray, in his “ List of the Specimens of 
Mammalia in the Collection of tho Museum," ( 1843 ), gives 
the name Omjchogalea. Macropus lunatus is very closely 
allied to these animals, and, like them, lias the tail terminated 
by a homy excrescence. 
The muffle in M. unguifer is covered with hair, with the 
exception of a very narrow margin next the nostril-openings; 
the foremost of tho throe incisor teeth on either side of the 
upper jaw is distinctly the broadest, the other two are very 
nearly equal in width; the himlerrnost has a strong oblique 
external fold; these teeth are small, compared with the 
