THE BLACK-GLOVED KANGAROO. 
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hue descends about half an inch from the point of the car. 
The legs, excepting at the base externally, and the feet, are 
ochreous yellow, the fore half of the latter excepted, wliich is 
black, and the black and yellow parts of the feet are separated 
by a well-defined lino, as if tho animal bad thrust its foot 
into some black dye. The lmirs covering the inner double 
too of the hind foot are partly yellow and partly black. The 
tail is long, rather slender, and well clothed with adpressed 
hairs, which are partly black and partly white, in nearly equal 
proportions: on about the middle of the tail, both above and 
below, the hairs arc considerably lengthened, and continue, in 
the form of a crest, to the apex, where they are fully an inch 
and a half in length : these crests, or fringes, are almost 
entirely black, but, at some distance from the point, some 
narrow wliite rings are visible on the hairs which form the 
upper crest, and these becomo more conspicuous as we pro¬ 
ceed towards the middle of the tail: on tho sides of the tail 
the hairs are adpressed, and but little longer at the tip than 
elsewhere; they are annulated with black and white almost 
in equal proportions, but a space of about an inch and a half 
from the tip of the tail is clothed with hairs which are almost 
totally black. The height of this animal, in its ordinary erect 
position, is about twenty-six inches. 
Length from tip of muzzle to the root of the tail 
14 of tail . 
44 of tarsus and claws 
44 from nose to the ear . 
44 of ear ... . 
Inches. Lines. 
31 0 
27 0 
8 10 
5 0 
3 G 
The Black-gloved Kangaroo is said by Mr. Gilbert to he 
found equally abundant in all parts of the colony of Swan 
IUver, West Australia. It generally inhabits scrubby places, 
