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M ACROPO DI I).E. 
MACROPUS (Lagorchestes) HIRSUTUS. 
Rufous-liaired Hare-Kangaroo. 
Layo7'chestes hirsutus. Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
for February lS-il, p. 32. 
Fur long; general tint grey-brown, much suffused with rufous on 
the hinder parts of the body; legs of a bright rust colour; 
very long rust-coloured hairs are abundantly interspersed 
with those forming the ordinary fur, more especially on the 
hinder parts of tlie body ; under parts rusty white ; eye 
broadly encircled with rust colour; ears moderately large, 
and rounded at the extremity; tail moderate, clothed with 
small stiff hairs, which scarcely hide the scaly skin beneath; 
those on the upper surface of a brownish black hue; on the 
under, paler. 
Inhabits Western Austraba. 
This species is nearly equal to the common Hare in size; 
its fur is long and moderately soft; the upper parts of the 
body are grey, much tinted with rufous brown, and freely 
pencilled with white; the sides of the body, rump, hind and 
fore legs, of a bright rust colour, darkest on the liind legs, 
and least distinct on the fore legs ; the throat, chest, and 
mesial line of belly, rusty white ; the crown of the head, grey; 
a broad space around the eye is of a bright, but palish rust 
colour, and tliis tint extends on to the muzzle; a whitish line 
on the upper lip runs hack past the angle of the mouth. The 
ears are moderately long, rather broad, rounded at the tip, 
and have longish white hairs internally ; externally, they are 
pencilled with rusty yellow, and dusky; the former tint, how* 
ever, prevails ; the hinder half is almost entirely clothed with 
small white bail's. The fore feet arc clothed with glistering 
yellowish white hairs ; the tarsus is almost entirely of a pale- 
rust colour, but rusty white towards the hinder part; and the 
toes are obscurely suffused with brownish rust colour. The 
