BANDED HARE- KANGAROO. 
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spaces between the bands are partly of a rust colour and 
partly whitish; the white joins the dark hand, and is gra¬ 
dually shaded into rust colour, to be followed by the next 
dark band; over the shoulders the bunds are wanting. On 
the whole of the upper parts of the back, ns well as on the 
sides of the body and the cheeks, arc numerous very loug 
interspersed hairs, which have the exposed portion white, but 
which, like the hairs which form the ordinary fur, are nearly 
black at the root. The under parts of the body arc dirty white, 
having a considerable admixture of grey, the hairs being 
of the latter colour below the points. The cars have longish 
white hairs on the inner side; on the outer side the hairs are 
short, and finely freckled with brownish black, and white, the 
dark colour prevailing on the fore part, and tho hinder part 
being entirely pale. The fore feet are of a dirty rust colour; 
the tarsi rusty white (or pale rust colour), and pencilled with 
blackish; the sides, both of the tarsus and toes, are chiefly of a 
very pale brown colour. The tail is rather slender, tolerably 
well covered with short adpressed hairs, the prevailing tint of 
which is brownish-grey; on the under side of the tail tho 
hairs are somewhat longer, and of a brownish-white colour; 
on the upper surface is a narrow blackish streak, and on the 
apical tliird the hairs are longer than elsewhere, and form a 
small dark crest; at the point of the tail they are sometimes 
an inch in length. The muffle is entirely clothed with hair, 
with the exception of a small space in front, and a narrow 
line next the nostril openings. 
The above description is taken from one of ilr. Gould’s 
specimens of Lagorchestes albipilix, now in the British 
Museum, and agrees so perfectly with my notes made upon 
the specimens of Kan gurus fascia (us in the Paris Museum, 
that it is uunecessary to make any extracts from those notes. 
1 shall here subjoin their dimensions, together with those of 
the specimen above described:— 
