78 
MACRO POD I DjE. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Length from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail 18 
0 
>» 
of tail 
. 14 
6 
»* 
of ear ... 
o 
4 
»i 
of tarsus, including the nails 
... 5 
6 
»» 
from nose to ear 
. 3 
0 
Amongst the numerous new species of the Kangaroo tribe 
discovered by Mr. Gould, this is certainly one of the most 
elegant. Its form is slender, and the two white marks which 
run backwards from beliind the ear, and terminate on each 
side of the body a little behind the base of the fore leg, add 
to its beauty: these marks are rendered the more conspicuous 
by the intervening space on the back of the neck being 
almost black. Mr. Gould states that its weight varies from 
ten to fifteen pounds. The nearest point to the colony of 
New South Wales at which he met with it, was Brezi, on the 
Biver Mokai, whence it extended into the interior. “ It 
inhabits,” says Mr. Gould 1 , 44 all the low mountain ranges 
similar to those of Brezi, whose elevation varies from one to 
five or six hundred feet, nnd which are of a sterile character— 
hot, dry, stony, and thinly covered with shrub-like stunted 
trees * * *. When started from its seat, which is formed 
like that of a hare, and sheltered by a tuft of gniss, or a 
small hush, it hounds away with remarkable fleetness, gene¬ 
rally giving the best dogs a sharp rim, and frequently effects 
its escape by gaining the thick part of the trunk, or the bole 
of a decayed tree; and 1 recollect, on one occasion, that on 
being sharply pressed, the animal mounted the inside of the 
tree to an opening nearly fifteen feet from the ground, whence 
it leaped down before the dogs, and succeeded in reacliing the 
hollow trunk of a fallen tree, from which it was finally taken 
by the hand." 
The female, as is usual in this group, is considerably 
Monograph of the Maeropodidu*. 
