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the under parts of the body; in some it is dirty yellow 1 , and 
in others of u rusty red tint: the upper parts of the body are 
sometimes very dark, being much pencilled with black. The 
posterior outer margin of the car is of a rusty yellow colour; 
the remaining portions of the back, or outer surface of the ear. 
are black, or nearly so. The tarsi are short and stout, and so 
are the fore legs. The hair of the muzzle terminates in a lino 
with the posterior angle of the nostrils. The second column 
of the dimensions gives the proportions of a male specimen, 
the original of Mr. Ogilbv’s Macropus n/fiventer. The skull 
is rather large in proportion to the animal, and affords the 
following measurements:— 
Inches 
Total length . 4 
Width . 2 
From front of anterior incisor to the posterior 
palatal opening . 1 
Width between anterior molars . 0 
44 between posterior ditto. 0 
Length of the tire molars of the upper jaw taken 
together. 1 
41 of the three incisors of either side of upper 
jaw taken together . 0 
44 of lower jaw, from condyle to base of 
incisor ... ... . 2 
44 from binder part of condyle to fore part 
of coronoid process. 1 
Height in a vertical line dropped from apex of 
coronoid process .. 1 
The upper incisor teeth are represented in Plate 5, fig. 11. 
Lines. 
14 
*4 
G4 
>1 
5 
11 
0 
G 
1 A specimen which recently died in the Zoological .Society’s menagerie has 
the under parts of the body almost of a cream colour. 
