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In the British Museum is n small Kangaroo, which appears 
to me to he specifically identical with the M. brachyurus , but 
which differs in being of a rich reddish brown colour. The 
fur ou the back is pencilled with bright rust colour and black ; 
on the under parts of the body it is grey, but suffused 
with very pale rust colour, tin* hairs being grey at the root, 
and tipped with the brighter colour; the ears ore of a bright 
rust colour internally, and the head is almost entirely of the 
same hue, being but slightly pencilled with black: the fore 
and hind feet are brownish black, but rusty at the sides: the 
tail is brown-black above, somewhat reddish at the sides and 
at the base, and of a dirty rusty white beneath. The spe¬ 
cimen is a female, and evidently far from adult. Its 
dimensions are— 
Length from nose to root of tail, about 
** of tail, about... .. ... 
11 of tarsus and nails 
*' from nose to car, about 
** of car, about 
From Augusta, Western Australia. 
Inches. Lines. 
. 15 0 
..7 0 
..3 6 
2 9 
.. 1 1 
Sub-genus I1ETEROPUS. 
Ileteropiu 1 . Jovrdan, “ Comptcs Rendus” for October 9, 1837, p. 522; 
and Annates des Sciences Natu relies, tom. vii. p. 368. 
Pttmgalr. Gray, Magazine of Natural History for November, 1837, 
vol. i. (New Series), p. 583. 
Kangaroos with muffle naked; the hind foot short and stout, and 
densely clothed with coarse hairs; the nails smallish: tail 
cylindrical, and clothed with long hairs, especially on the 
apical portion. 
Inhabitants of rocky situations. 
1 From ere pos, altered; and xovr, the foot—having allusion to the somewhat 
abnormal structure of the hind foot, observed in the species of this section. 
' * From tct pos, a stone; and yaAy, a weasel, or cat. 
