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MACRO PODIDjB. 
in most other species of Macropus: general colour very dark 
brown, the visible portions of the hairs being pencilled with 
rust colour and black, but next the skin (on the back) they 
are almost black ; head greyish; the crown, occiput, and 
region of the ears, of a rich rusty red colour; cheek-mark 
distinct, and of a rich yellow hue; muzzle dusky above; 
towards the apex, and immediately round the eye, the hairs 
are of the same colour; chin white ; throat rich golden yellow, 
shaded gradually behind into die rusty red of die under parts 
of the body, which is deepest between die hind legs : die 
hairs on the under parts are, however, grey at the roots; a 
broad black patch is situated immediately behind the lore leg; 
cal's with yellow hairs internally ; externally, of a deep rusty 
red, suffused with brownish, but with the apical third deep 
brown, inclining to black; the margin pale; shoulders and 
fore legs greyish; the hairs on these parts pencilled with 
black and yellowish white; hands and wrists black, slightly 
pencilled with whitish; tarsi black, obscurely freckled with 
yellowish above, distinctly pencilled with this colour on the 
outer side, and of a rusty hue on the inner side; tail black, 
slightly pencilled with whitish at the base and along the 
sides; the hairs long, stiff, and glossy ; beneath brownish. 
A female specimen, also in Mr. Gould’s collection, had the 
forehead, cheeks, shoulders, and sides of the belly, grey: the 
abdomen is sometimes of a palish yellow hue. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
Length from nose to car . . 
Ins. Lines. 
34 0 
Ins. Lines. 
32 0 
Ins. Lines. 
20 6 
Ins. Lines. 
34 0 
44 of tail, about .... 
2G 
0 
24 
0 
24 0 
26 0 
“ from nose to ear . . . 
5 
3 
5 
0 
4 2 
41 of car. 
3 
0 
2 
G 
2 G 
2 7 
14 of tarsus, toes and claws . 
8 
4 
8 
0 
7 3 
7 8 
