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MACROPOD II) .“E. 
tinct whitish mark crosses the haunches ; fore legs and tarsi 
brown-white, but the hairs on these parts are blackish at the 
root; hands brown-white* slightly pencilled with blackish : 
tail rather sparingly clothed with small pale hairs ; ear very 
short, narrow at the apex, clothed internally with pale hairs ; 
externally, with hairs which are partly dusky aud partly 
white: around each eye is a broad space, of a rich and 
bright rusty red colour : sides of the muzzle whitish, the tip 
above nearly black. 
Fbm * lk.—But. Mus. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 18 6 
11 of tail ... ... ... .13 9 
14 of tarsus and claw ... ... ... 5 (> 
44 from nose to ear ... . 3 4 
“ of car ... ... ... ... ... 1 3 
** of fore arm and hand, to end of claw, 
about ... ... ... . 3 G 
Height, in ordinary erect position, about ... 14 0 
From Barrow Island, north-west coast of Australia. 
This species, so remarkable for its general resemblance to 
the Common Hare, may be distinguished from the M. lejwroidt s 
by its ears being considerably shorter, the more brilliaut 
rusty-red colouring round the eye, and the want of the black 
patcli at the base of the fore leg: the muzzle, likewise, is 
more obtuse. In leporoides the muffle is entirely covered 
with velvet-like hairs, but in the present species there is a 
distinct nuked margin next the nostrils, and a small naked 
space in front. Lastly, may be noticed, the structure of the 
lore legs and hands, which are larger and stronger than in 
leporoides: in this latter animal the hand is about lines 
in width, whilst in M. co?i spirilla t us it is about 8 lines. 
The foremost incisor tooth of the upper jaw is the broadest, 
and the last is rather broader than the second, and lias an 
oblique external fold. These teeth are small, as in M. nnyiiif r , 
and indeed in most of the species having the miiflle hairy, if 
we except the M. yiijanteus. 
But two specimens of this species have been brought to 
