PARMA KANGAROO. 
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one of which is contained in the collection of the British 
Museum, and is from Mosquito Island, at the month of the 
Hunter River. Its dimensions arc given in the first column, 
and it is figured in Plate 2; the other skull is in the College 
of Surgeons, and was brought, home by Mr. Gould. 
No. i 
Inchrt. Liuro. 
No. a. 
Inches. Linen. 
Total length of skull * . 
Width . 
Length of nasal bones ... 
Width of ditto at the base 
44 44 near the apex ... 
Length of frontal bones 
Width between orbits. 
Length of palate ... . 
Width of ditto opposite the third 
molar . 
Length of posterior palatine 
openings . 
44 of the five molar teeth 
taken together 
44 of the premolar. 
44 of the three incisor teeth 
taken together 
44 of lower jaw 
Height of ditto in a vertical line 
dropped from the apex 
of the coronoid process 
■ij 
3 i 
10 } 
8 
7 
8} 
8 
10 
— 8 
1 34 
- 24 
1 
91 
1 
0 
24 
64 
7 
4 
6 
8 
4 
— G 
8 
Fig. 2.—Plate 2 represents the skull as viewed from beneath, half the 
natural size; 2, a, the lower jaw viewed from the outer 
side; 2, b, the lower jaw viewed from above; 2, c, the 
incisor teeth of the upper jaw represented of the natural 
size ; 2, d, shews the cutting surface of the same teeth. 
MACROPUS ( Hahnaturus ) PARMA. 
Parma Kangaroo. 
Halmaturus Parma. Gould, in Mr. Gray’s List of the Mammalia in Brit. 
Mus. 1843, p. 91. 
Fur moderate; general colour rich rufous brown, pencilled with 
whitish; much pencilled with black on the back; under parts 
