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MACROPODID.fi. 
orbital space broader : in penicillatus tlie frontal bones are 
slightly contracted behind the orbits, but this is not the case 
in M. concinnus. 
MACllOPUS BRUNII. Le Bruns Kangaroo. 
Filcmder. 
Didelp/iis Brunii. 
u Asiatica. 
Javan Oppoxum. 
Did dp his Brunii. 
Le Brun, Voyages par Moscovic, en Perse, et am 
Imies Orientales, tom. ii. p. 347. 1718. 
Schreher, Saugeth. iii. p. 551, PI. 153. 1778. 
Pallas, Act. Acad. Sci. Petrop. for 1777, Pt. 2, 
p. 229, Tab. 9, figs. 4 and 5. 1780. 
Pennant, Mist, of Quad., p. 305. 1781. 
Gmel., Linn. Syst. i. p. 109. 1788. 
(Javan Opossum.) Shaw, Gen. Zool., i. Pt. 2, p. 480. 
1800. 
Macropus veterum . Lesson, Manuel de Mamm. p. 227. 1827. 
41 Bruinii. Fischer, Syn. Mamm., p. 283. 1829. 
Didelphis Brunii. Quov et Gaim., Voy. de l’Astrolabe, Zool. p. 116, 
PI. 20. 1830. 
Hypsiprymnus Brunii. Muller, Zoogd. dcr Indesch. Archipcl. Pt. 4, PI. 21. 
Head, PI. 22, fig. 3; Skull, PI. 23, figs. 7 and 8, 
and PI. 24, fig. 7; Bones of the hind leg, figs. 8 
and 9. 1841. 
Haimaturus Asiaticus. Gray, in List of Mamm. in Brit. Mas. p. 91.1843. 
Head narrow, and very long; ears short; tail moderate; fore legs 
strong: fur very short, soft, and composed of hair almost en. 
tirely of one kind, radiating from a point on the mesial line 
of the back a little behind the shoulders; general colour 
greyish brown suffused with yellowish, especially on the sides 
of the body; under parts pale dirty yellow: ears blackish 
externally. 
Inhabits New Guinea. 
1 his singular animal is the first of the Kangaroo family 
with which naturalists became acquainted, being imperfectly 
described, but better figured, as early as the year 1711, by 
Le Bran; its characters were subsequently more carefully 
