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MACROroDID/E. 
white hue above, and dirty yellowish white beneath; the fore 
feet brownish, pencilled 'with white, and have the toes dark- 
brown ; the tarsi are whitish in the middle, but the hairs on 
this part are brown at the base; the toes dark brown, with the 
exception of the hairs covering the nails, which are pale; the 
head is of the same general hue as the body, and, as in if. 
nificollis , the region of the eye is tinted with pale rufous; the 
ears are clothed with white hairs internally, and are dusky 
externally; the fore part of the hind leg, immediately above 
the tarsus, is white. 
Length flora the tip of the nose to the root of 
the tail ... 
“ of tail ... ... ... . 
44 from nos« to car ... ... ... 
44 of ear ... ... ... . 
44 of tarsus, including the nails 
44 of fore-arm, hands, and claws ... ... 
Inches. Liner. 
34 0 
22 6 
5 0 
2 5 
8 6 
8 0 
The specimen from which the above description is taken is 
evidently very old, and may have been in the Palis Museum 
at the time that Desmarest drew up his description, but the 
difference of size, as I have before stated, forbids our believing 
it to be the individual described as M. rufo-griseus. 
Macropus rujicollis , var. Bennettii. 
Macropus Bennettii . 
Macropm r ( Hatma/urus ) fruticus. 
Ilalmaitirus Uatabatus . 
“ Bennettii. 
tt 
Waterhouse, Proceedings of theZoolo. 
gical Society for October, 1837, Pt. 5, 
p. 103 ; Marsupialia, p. 211, PI. 19. 
Ogiluy, Annals of Nat. Hist, for May, 
1838, Vol. i. p. 219. 
Gray, Mag. of Nat. Hist, for Nor. 1837* 
Vol. i. (New Series), p. 583. 
Gonu), Monogr. Pt. 1, 7th Plate. 
Wagner, in Schrebcr's Saugcth. Suppl. 
111—112 Heft, p. 115. 
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