140 
MACROPODIDiE. 
Total length of skull . 
Width . 
Length of nasal bones 
Width of ditto at the base . 
“ 44 near the apex 
Length of frontal bones . 
Width between orbits 
Length of palate ... . 
Width of ditto opposite third molar 
Length of posterior palatal openings 
4 4 of the five molar teeth taken together 
44 of the premolar 
Distance between incisors and premolar ... 
Inches. Lines. 
5 3 
2 8 
2 3* 
0 9} 
0 6* 
1 9 
1 Of 
3 U 
0 11J 
o 4 
1 7 § 
0 4§ 
1 2 
MACROPUS (Halmat tints) EUGENII. 
Eugene Island Kangaroo. 
K an gurus Eu genii. Desm. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. tom. xvii. p. 38; 
Mammalogie, p. 274. 
Macropus Eugenii . Lesson, Manuel de Mammalogie, p. 227. 
Halmalttrus Dam a , and H . gracilis. Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society; the former in the Part for February 1844, 
p. 32, and the latter in the Part for June 1844, p. 103. 
“ Total length, measured from the tip of the muzzle to the root of 
the tail, about twenty-one inches (French measure); head 
four inches, and tail rather more than one foot in length. 
Fur very soft, somewhat like that of M. ruficollis; its general 
tint grey brown, but mixed with rust colour near the shoulders, 
on the back of the neck, and upper surface of the head, as 
well as the fore legs ; t he whitish colour of the under part3 
pretty distinctly separated from the deeper colour of the 
upper parts ; under surface of the tail white, slightly tinted 
with reddish ; upper surface grey brown ; each hair of the 
back is grey at the root, and annulated with brown, and with 
whitish externally, but the extreme point is brown; the* hairs of 
the shonlders and back of the neck are grey at the root, then 
rust coloured, followed by white, and rust colour at the apex.” 
