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Tho “ Padcmelon Wallaby ” of the colonists, is a small 
species, about twenty incites in height when sitting up on its 
hind legs, and is an inhabitant of New South Wales, where 
it is very abundant. Mr. Gould states, that it is strictly a 
brush animal, and that he has met with it in all the districts, 
where the low shrubs abound, from Illawami to the Hunter; 
he had moreover received specimens from Moroton Bay. As 
an article of food it is highly prized, its flesh being tender 
and well flavoured, and very like that of the Common Hare. 
Specimens of this species were brought alive to Europe, by 
the officers of M. Bougainville’s voyage of the French vessel 
Thetis, and these lived for some time, and brought forth 
young, in the Menagerie of the Jar din dcs Plantes of Paris. 
It is upon these specimens that M. F. Cuvier founded his 
Ualma turns Tint id is, naming the species after the vessel 
just mentioned. M, F. Cuvier, however, in his account, 
alludes to a specimen, ns belonging to the same species, 
which he states had long existed in the Paris Museum, where 
it had been regarded as the young of tho Macrojnts ruJicoUis . 
Now M. Desmarest had previously characterized an animal 
under the name of Kangurus Eugenii , founded as he 
observes upon a Kangaroo of the Paris Museum, which had 
been regarded as the young of the Macropus rujicollis, 1 and 
from this circumstance, (together with a tolerably close 
agreement in the descriptions given by the two authors 
mentioned,) I was induced to sink tho name Tint id is as a 
synonym of Eugenii.- Mr. Gould is of opinion that the 
M. Ettgenii, which is said to be from Eugene Island, on the 
West Coast, is distinct from the New South Wales animal, 
M. Thctidis , and that it is identical with the M. Dcrbianus , 
1 1 found no Kangaroo with the name Eugenii in the Paris Museum. It 
is somewhat remarkable that M. P. Cuvier should have made no meution of 
M. Eugenii , when he described the //. T/it/ulis. 
* l n page 232 of the volume on Marsupialia in the '* Naturalists’ Library.” 
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