THE HA UK* KANGAROO. 
buff yellow ; sides of the body and hnunclies suffused with 
rust colour; under parts grey-white, tinted with rust colour, 
but nearly pure white between the hind legs. Fore legs with 
a more or less strongly marked black patch at the base 
externally, but the lmirs on this part pencilled with white; 
fore arm and baud with short brown hairs, pencilled with 
very pale brown: on the middle of the tibia is a dusky 
patch: tarsi impure palish rust colour, finely freckled with 
brown; toes brownish: tail clothed throughout with small 
ndpressed hairs, which are partly black and partly white; 
beneath brow n-white. 
Inhabits South Australia. 
This pretty little Kangaroo is nearly equal in size to the 
common Hare (Lqmt tint id us), and very much resembles 
that animal in the texture and colouring of its fur, circum¬ 
stances which suggested the specific name. The head is 
rather short ; the cars moderately long, attenuated, and some¬ 
what pointed at the apex; internally well clothed with long 
white hairs, externally clothed with small black and white 
hairs: the upper lip is white; the tip of the muzzle com¬ 
pletely clothed with minute brown hairs. The tarsi are long; 
the nails of the toes long, slender, and sharply pointed; the 
fore legs very small and delicate ; the toes armed with slender 
nails. The tail is slender, and of moderate length. The fur 
of the hack is nearly black next the skin ; each hair 1ms this 
black portion, which is of considerable extent, followed by 
reddish-brown ; then a long space, which is rusty-white, and 
the tip is black : on the belly and chest the lmirs are grey at 
the base, and rusty grey- white externally; between the hind 
legs they are wliite throughout. The foremost incisor tooth 
of the upper jaw is the largest, aud the liindermost one, 
which has a distinct notch, is the smallest of the three on 
either side of the jaw. At a short distance behind the 
incisors is a small slender canine tooth. 
