THE BLACK-OLOVEI) KANGAROO. 
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on the upper part of the body, but is distinct on the neck 
and flanks; the under parts arc grey-white, slightly suffused 
with reddish yellow; the upper lip is yellow, and the check¬ 
mark of a cream colour; the top of the head and muzzle are 
grey, and the crown of the head is slightly tinted with rust 
colour; the tip of tlio muzzle is sooty black, and so are the 
occiput and buck of the ears, but tho latter are brownish at 
the root, and have a large white patch behind at tho huso ; 
on the inner side the ears are yellow, and at tho apex they 
are broadly margined with black; the fore arm and foot, and 
the outer side of the hind legs and tarsi, arc yellow, but the 
anterior half of the feet is black; the black of the latter, however, 
is pencilled with brownish, and iu parts with white, excepting 
on the toes; the double inner toe is pencilled with yellow and 
black. The hairs of the tail ore pencilled with black and 
white, and are shortish and adpressed, excepting on the dorsal 
lino of tho apical half, where they are long and chiefly black, 
and on the under side, where longish black hairs extend from 
tho tip to within about six inches of the root; near the apex 
of the tail these long hairs assume a brownish hue, and ut 
the tip is a large tuft of yellowish white, or white, hairs; 
this pencil, or tuft, of pale hairs is about two inches long. 
Inches. Lines. 
27 0 
22 0 
4 4 
3 0 
8 3 
Length from nose to tail ... 
“ of tail 
11 from nose to ear ... 
41 of ear 
41 of tarsus.. 
The specimen furnishing the above characters is a male; 
the second specimen is a female, and differs only in being 
nither smaller, and in having the hack of the ears brownish, 
and grey at the base; they have the same white posterior patch. 
A skull of M. manicatus, for the loan of which I um 
indebted to Mr. Gould, presents the following dimensions :— 
