BANDED HAItE-KANGAKOO. 
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Europe, and it is to Captain Wickham and Mr. Bynoe, of 
II. M. S. The Beagle, that its discovery is due. The female, 
from which tho above description was drawn up, was pre¬ 
sented by the former of these gentlemen to the British 
Museum. Both the specimens were found on Barrow island, 
which lies off the north-western coast of Australia, about 
thirty miles from the main land. 
MACROPUS (. Lagorchestes) FASCIATUS. 
Banded Ilare* Kangaroo. 
{Plate -I, Fig. 2.) 
/ 
Perox ct Lesckcr, Voyage aux Torres Australcs, 
tom. i. p. Ill, Plate 27. 
Desmaresi*, Mammalogie, Part 1, p. 274. 
Cuvier, Hcgnc Animal, torn. i. p. 187. 
Gould, Monograph of the M&cropodidse, Part 2, 
Plate — . 
Layorchcxtes albipilia . Gould, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 
for Sept. 1842, Vol. x. p. 2. 
About the size of the Common Ilare {Ltpus timidus): ears mode¬ 
rate, attenuated at the apex ; fore feet very small ; tail about 
as long as the body; fur very long and soft, brown-grey, 
variegated with rust-colour, black and white ; around the eye 
of a brightish rust-colour : numerous transverse narrow tlark 
bands adorn the back, and are most conspicuous on the 
hinder part : on the whole of the upper parts and sides of 
the body, arc very loug interspersed white lmirs; under parts 
of body dirtv-whitc: the hairs springing from the sides of 
the two larger toes of the hind feet are very long (being 
many of them nearly an iuch in length), rather harsh, and of 
a brownish-white colour. 
Inhabits Western Australia. 
The specimens of Macrojpus fasciatus in the Paris Museum 
being very old, have had the hair worn off from the tip of 
the muzzle, from which circumstance Mr. Gould (supposing 
Kang unis fasciat ua. 
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Halmatunu elegans. 
Dettongia fasciat a . 
