THE RED-NECKED KANGAROO. 
125 
Inches. Lines. 
length of car ... ... . 2 11 
° from nose to ear ... . 5 2 
11 of fore leg to the ends of daws of 
fingers . 6 7 
MAOBOPUS (Halmaturus) RITICOLLIS. 
The Red-necked Kangaroo. 
Kanyurus rufieollu, 
Kanyuroo a com roujr. 
M a cr ap us rufieollis. 
Halmaturus elegant . 
" rufieollis. 
Kanyurus mfoyrisevs. 
Halmaturus gritto-rufus. 
“ l ep l onyx. 
Dksmakest, Nout. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. tom. xrii. 
p. 37, 1817: Mammalogte, p. 274. 
F. Cl- tier. Diet, dcs Sci. Nat. tom. xxir. p. 318, 
1822. 
Lesson, Manuel de Mammal, p. 228, 1827. 
(Lambert) Gray, Catalogue of the Mammalia in 
the British Museum, (1813), p. 89. 
Got'LD, Monogr. of the Macropodidse, Part 2, 
Plate 2. 
Desmakkst, Nouv. Diet. d*Hist. Nat. t. xxii. p. 36. 
Goldfuss, in Isis, 1819, p. 2C7. 
Wagner ? 
Fur moderate; general colour rusty grey—chiefly grey on the 
back, and chiefly pale rust colour on the neck, shoulders, 
and in the region of the eye; under parts grey-white, slightly 
suffused with pale rust colour; cars white internally, but 
with the apical margin black; externally blackish : fore feet 
brown or blackish, finely pencilled with white; the toes dark 
brown or blackish: tarsi dark brown, but with the mesial 
portion nearly white: tail grey-white, slightly suffused with 
black at the apex. 
Inhabits New South Wales, and King’s Island. 
The Red-necked Knngaroo was discovered by MM. P6ron 
and Lesueur, in King’s Island, (one of tho largest of the 
Islands in Bass’s Straits), in which they also found the 
Wombat, Echidna, and a species of Dusyurus {D. macula/us). 
These two travellers, together with M. Lesclienault, were left 
