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MACROPODIDiE. 
Macropus elegants; but his description is so short that it 
will always be a matter of doubt as to the species to which 
his name should be attached. That it is of a silvery grey 
colour, and has the following dimensions, is all that we can 
glean from his account :— 
Length from tip of nose to end of tail ... 
“ “ to eye ... ... . 
** 11 to back part of skull 
“ of tail ... ... ... .. . 
41 of ears ... ... ... ... . 
11 of hind leg, from the claws to the 44 knee,” (by 
which the heel is no doubt meant) . 
These dimensions, combined with a silvery grey colour, are 
more applicable to the Macropuss Parryi than to any other 
known species; and I find Mr. Gould agrees with an opinion 
I formerly expressed, that the elegants of Lambert was speci¬ 
fically identical with Parry’s Kangaroo. Mr. Gray, however, 
associates Lambert's account with a very differently coloured 
animal, the M. rttjicol/is , and has been led to do so from an 
inspection of a coloured plate in a copy of the Linntean 
Transactions, which formerly belonged to Sir Joseph Banks, 
and which is now in the British Museum Library. This 
plate represents the animal as of a very pale grey colour, with 
the under parts of the body, and apical half of the tail, white, 
the crown of the head, hands, and fore half of the foot dusky, 
or blackish; there is no trace of red on the neck or elsewhere. 
I think it must be intended to represent the Marrojm 
Parryi . 
The skull of M . Parryi greatly resembles that of M. 
Bennett li , but may be distinguished by the facitil portion 
being more produced, the nasal bones longer, and less con¬ 
tracted in the middle, the sides being nearly parallel. Tho 
upper incisor teeth are very nearly tho same; tho groove in 
Inches. 
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