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nearly *1 inches ami *1 lines : all the upper parts of the body 
arc of a rusty grey colour, the grey, however, predominates, 
and the under parts differ only in being paler ; the extremities 
of the feet and tail arc shaded with hrowu, and the under 
side of the latter is of the same colour ms the upper: the 
hairs on the hack are rust coloured at the base, have then a 
whitish ring, and the point is brown ; those of the belly anti 
chest have the whitish portion less extended. 
The Macropus rufo-yriseus is vaguely indicated as inhabit¬ 
ing New Holland ; its great size, however, leads us to suppose 
that it is the species referred to by the French travellers, 
MM. Pfiron and Lesueur, as inhabiting Kangaroo Island, 
where a second large species, supposed to be the M. fuli - 
ginosus , is also found.’’—From Desmarest, in the Nouveau 
Dietionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle. 
Very recently, the author visited the Paris Museum with a 
view to examine and determine, if possible, the three species 
of Kangaroos described by Desmarest under the names 
Kan gurus ruficollis , K. rufo-griseu* , and K. Eugeni *, hut 
was disappointed to find that the originals of M. Desmarest’s 
descriptions of the two last mentioned species no longer 
existed. An animal to which the specific name rufo-griseus 
is attached in the Paris Collection, certainly agrees very 
closely with Desmarest’s description, excepting that its size is 
less than indicated by that author. This animal is a female, 
and is clearly of the same species ns the specimens named 
ruficoUis in the same collection. Its general tint is grey, much 
suffused with yellowish rust colour, and this last mentioned 
tint is almost uniform on the hack of the neck, shoulders, and 
sides of the body: the under parts of the body are of an 
impure white; the fur on the hack is much pencilled with 
white; the hairs are dusky at the point, greyish at the base, 
shaded into pale rusty-yellow near the middle, und white, or 
nearly white, towards the point: the tail is of a dirty greyish 
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