174 
MACROPODID/K. 
so. The throat and mesial line of the abdomen are of a buff- 
yellow colour, inclining to white; the fore part of the neck 
and chest are usually greyish, but the latter is sometimes 
yellowish in the middle, and blackish at the sides. 
Inches Lines. Indies. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail 
24 
0 
23 
0 
«< 
of tail ... ... . 
17 
0 
1G 
0 
u 
from nose to ear 
4 
0 
3 
8 
• 1 
of ear ... ... ... 
1 
10A 
2 
0 
14 
of tarsus *... ... ... 
5 
3 
5 
0 
* 1 
from end of nail of outer toe to 
end of that of great central toe 
1 
3 
4 * 
from end of nails of inner double 
toe to the same 
1 
4 
44 
of fore arm, hands, and claws, 
about 
4 
!) 
4 
0 
The first of the two columns of dimensions gives the size 
and proportions of a male—from Mr. Gould ; the second, 
those of a female in the British Museum collection. 
The frontal bones are very concave between the orbits in a 
skull of the M. lateralis , in Mr. Gould's collection; the nasal 
bones are very narrow in front, and broad behind, and at tliis 
part there is a small opening on either side between the nasal 
bones and the nasal process of the superior maxilhiries; the 
posterior palatine openings are large. Tliis skull belonged 
to an animal which was not quite adult : its dimensions uni 
as follows : — 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of skull ... ... ... ... 3 7 
Width of ditto ... ... . o 0 
44 between the orbits ... . 0 8§ 
Length of nasal bones ... ... ... l 6 
Width of ditto behind ... ... ... 0 GJ 
44 44 near the npex... ... ... 0 2} 
Length of the three upper incisors, taken 
together 0 4 , 
Distance between the incisor and molar teeth 0 
Length of the lower jaw ... ... ... *> G 
Height of ditto from the apex of the 
coronoid process ... . 1 4 
