SPECTACLED HARE-KANGAROO. 
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under the shelter of a tuft of grass on the open plains: for a 
short distance its fleetness is beyond that of all others of its 
group that T have had an opportunity of coursing. Its 
powers of leaping are also equally extraordinary. I may 
mention an incident connected with the chase of the animal, 
which occurred to myself. While out on the plains in South 
Australia, I started a Hare-Kangaroo before two fleet dogs; 
after running to the distance of a quarter of a mile, it sud¬ 
denly doubled, and came hack upon me, the dogs following 
close at its heels : I stood perfectly still, and the animal had 
arrived within twenty feet before it observed me, when, to my 
astonishment, instead of branching ofl' to the right or to the 
left, it bounded clear over my head, and on descending to the 
ground, I was enabled to make a successful shot, by which it 
was procured. 
“ Considerable diversity of colour is observable in different 
specimens, some being much redder than others; but the 
sexes are scarcely distinguishable by size/* 
Fig. 17, of Plate 5, represents the skull of the natural size; 
aud fig. 17 a shows the form and relative positions of the 
superior incisors, the canine, and three of the molar teeth. 
MACROPUS (Lagorchestes) COXSPICILLATUS. 
Spectacled Hare-Kangaroo. 
lAgorchettet eon.>picillatux. Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
for October, 1841, Part ix. p. 82. Monograph of the Macropodids, 
Part 2, Plate 13. 
I a size, and in the colouring and texture of the fur, greatly resem¬ 
bling the Common Hare (Lepus timid us). Fur long and 
loose; on the upper parts of the body the hairs nrc black, 
but the curved and exposed ends are rusty-white, shaded 
through rusty-brown to black, which is the colour of the 
point ; the whitish part is most conspicuous; sides of the 
body pale brownish rust colour; under parts brownish- 
white ; the hairs here almost uniform to the root : an indis- 
