HANDED HARK”KANGAROO. 
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from the nature of die plants on which they feed, nearly all 
of which arc fragrant. 
At the time that Teron visited the islands, all the females 
carried young in their pouch, and the courage with which 
they sought to save their offspring was truly admirable: 
although wounded, they flew with the young in the pouch, 
and never left them until, overcome with fatigue and loss of 
blood, they could no longer carry them; they then stopped, 
and squatting themselves on the hind legs, helped the young 
to get out of the pouch by means of the fore feet, and sought 
to place them in a situation favourable for retreat. 
MM. Peron and Lesueur being unsuccessful in finding the 
Faseiated Kangaroo on the main land, imagined it was con¬ 
fined to the islands; such, however, is not the case, since 
M. Priess, on assiduous collector, has recently found it on 
die main land of Western Australia. The following notes, 
by Mr. Gilbert, upon the present species, are from the Pro¬ 
ceedings of the Zoological Society for February, 1811. 
“ With respect to the Kangaroos, 1 have heard of tlio Little 
silver-haired Lngorcliestes (Lagorchettes fasciatus), and 
have tried hard to procure a specimen. It is a species well 
known to the natives of Moore’s River, by whom it is called 
* Nor-nine,* and is only to be found in densely thick scrubs 
on flats, and on the edges of swamps, where the small brush 
Melaleuca grows so thickly that it is almost impossible 
for a man to force his way dirough; its runs being under 
this, the animal escapes even the quick eye of a native. The 
only possible means of obtaining it is by having a number of 
natives to clear the spot, and two or three with dogs and guns 
to watch for it. 
** This beautiful little animal makes no nest, hut squats 
precisely like a Hare, as I have been assured by Mr. Johnson 
Drummond.” 
