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MACROPODIDiE. 
MACROPUS ( Halmaturns) RUFUS. Red Kangaroo. 
Kangurus rufus. Desmaiiest, Mammalogie, Supplement, p. 541, 1822. 
“ laniger. Gaimaud, Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Pbiloma- 
tique, Ann6e 1822, p. 13S. 
“ 44 Quoy et Gaimaud, Voyage de PUranie, p. 65, Plate 9, 
1824. 
Macropus laniger. Gould, Monogr. Plate 2, Partt 1. 
Male. —Fur short, moderately soft to the touch, and of a woolly, 
or rather, eotton-like texture: prevailing hue bright, but 
rather pale, rust colour; head greyish at the sides; chin aud 
region of the mouth white, with a few small black spots, 
and one larger patch of the same colour above the angle of 
the mouth; cheeks with an indistinct whitish mark; ears 
rather large, white internally, externally greyish, but with 
some black hairs at the tip; limbs and tail nearly white; 
toes blackish, both large aud powerful. 
Female .—Limbs more slender ; the fore legs considerably smaller 
in proportion: prevailing hue palish-grey, with an obscure 
vinous tint, and in parts, especially about the loins ami 
haunches, of a bright, but rather pale rust colour; a distinct 
broad white mark on the cheeks. 
Of tliis, which is one of the largest and most beautiful of 
the Kangaroo tribe, the National Collection contains four 
specimens, exhibiting the differences of sex and age; these 
were brought home by Mr. Gould, by whom the species 
is most beautifully figured in the first part of his Mono¬ 
graph of this interesting group. Until the arrival of these 
specimens in England, a single individual only existed 
in the European museums—that contained in the collection 
at Paris, which was procured during M. Freyeiiiet's Voyage of 
the Urania, having been presented to the officers of that 
expedition by Mr. Fraser, the botanist, during their stay at 
Sydney, and was suid to have been procured at Port 
