CRE8CEXT-MARKED KANGAROO. 
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ami sometimes exhibits a mere notch rather behind the 
middle. The lower incisors are rather short and pointed. 
The fore feet are small, the central toe the longest, and the 
outer ones are very nearly equal in length. The hind feet 
are slender, and the nails of the toes are pointed, and rather 
small and slender; the nails of the double toe terminate 
about in a line with the middle of the nail of the outer toe, 
which is also the case in Lmjarchexte* albipili *. 
Sub-genus Lagorchcste *. 
Isiyorcheitr*. Gould, Monograph of the Macropodidic, Part 1. 
Mutlle clothed with vclvet-Iikc hairs ; posterior upper incisor 
teeth small, the hindennost with a single vertical groove: 
tarsi and claws sleuder ; fore legs small, the hands also small, 
and with smallish sharply pointed nails. 
Mr. Gould separates from the Kangaroos which have the 
muffle clothed with hair, a group of small species, some of 
which bear considerable general resemblance to our common 
hare 1 (Lepu* timidus), a resemblance, however, which is due 
chiefly to the texture and colouring of the fur, combined with 
the size of the animals. If compared with the Great 
Kangaroo, they differ considerably in the structure of their 
upper incisor teeth, the foremost pair being the broadest, and 
the hindermost incisor on either side being small, and about 
equal in width to die second, and Uiis tooth lias but one 
external vertical fold: diese differences, however, are likewise 
observed in some other species of Mncropus (as in M. /turntus), 
though perhaps in a rather less marked degree. 
In separating os a distinct genus the present group, Mr. 
Gould was impressed with die idea, that die species of which 
it was composed were closely allied to the Kangaroo-rats, 
observing, with reference to the Lagorchestes leporoides, 
“ that although belonging to that subdivision of the family 
The sectional name is derived from \ayos, a hare, and J>pxi|<rnjf, a dancer. 
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