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white; ears with pale yellow hairs internally; externally 
black, but broadly margined behind and at the apex, with 
yellow, and greyish at the base; tail long and very bushy, 
being clothed with long, coarse, black hairs, excepting at the 
base, where they resemble those of the body; feet black, or 
nearly so, the tarsi densely clothed with long coarse hairs; 
back of the neck with an indistinct blackish mark. 
Inhabits New South Wales. 
The first specimens of the Brush-tailed Kangaroo brought 
to Europe are probably those contained in the museum of die 
Linmean Society ; more recently a specimen was presented to 
the museum of the Zoological Society by Sir Edward W. 
Parry, and which being exhibited at one of the Society’s 
scientific meetings 1 , Mr. Bennett called attention to die 
peculiarities of the tail, and the difference in the structure of 
the upper incisor teeth, as compared with those of the Great 
Kangaroo. In a note by Sir Edward W. Parry, which 
accompanied the specimen, that gentleman states that it was 
shot among rocks near Liverpool Plains, New South Wales. 
As several of the same kind were seen together on more 
than one occasion, they appear to bo gregarious. They 
seemed to prefer the neighbourhood of rockv ground, in which 
they had holes, to which, when hunted, they retreated. The 
first intimation received of these animals, by a gentleman 
referred to in the note, was, that monkeys were to be seen in 
a particular situation ; and the manner in which they jumped 
about when lie first approached a number of them left the 
same impression on his mind/' They were so wild that he 
experienced great difficulty in obtaining a specimen. 
I lie specimens ol the Brush-tailed or Rock Kangaroo in the 
British Museum were also procured by Mr. Gould from the 
Liverpool Range ; and others were obtained on the sides of 
the mountains lacing Yarrundi on the Dnrtbrook, a tributary 
1 Proceedings of the Zoological Society for January 1835, Part 3, p. 1. 
