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MACRO FODID/E. 
height of the jaw, in a line dropped vertically from the apex 
of the coronoid process, was 3 inches 2 lines in M. gigantm , 
and hut 2 inches 5 lines in M. ntfus. The fore legs in M. 
rufus are much longer and more powerful than M.gigantm; 
the tarsus is long, but the great central toe is shorter in 
proportion than in the nnimal last mentioned. The 
hinder part of the muffle is clothed with hairs, and these 
terminate so as to form a point in front, which is situated about 
in a line with the middle of the nostril openings; laterally 
the hairs extend to the posterior angles of the nostrils, which 
are also fringed with hairs internally. 
MACROPUS ( Halmaturm) AGILIS. The 
Agile Kangaroo. 
Halmatttru8 ayilis, Gould, Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. for October, 1&42, 
Pt. 9, p. 81. Monogr. Pt. 2. PI. 5. 
“ ** Hamijron kt Jacquinot, Voyage au Pole Sud. PI. 19. 
“ Dinoe. Gould, Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. for May, 1842, 
Pt. 10, p. 58. 
Fur short, harsh, and closely applied to the body; general colour 
sandy or brownish yellow ; on the back pencilled with black ; 
under parts nearly white ; feet brownish white ; tail long, 
clothed with small ad pressed whitish hairs; on the mesial 
part of the upper surface yellowish, but near, and at the apex, 
the hairs are dusky; a whitish mark crosses the haunches. 
I nimbi ts North Australia. 
The Agile Kangaroo, it would appear, extends along the 
whole of the north coast of Australia, specimens haring been 
sent to Mr. Gould from Cobourg Peninsula, Port Essington, 
Raffles Bay, and from the shores of Torres Straits. “ It is 
stated to bo a most agile species, readily eluding the dogs 
employed in hunting it, by its extreme activity in leaping 
