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pointed out by Pallas, and it is upon the accounts of these 
two authors that nil the various descriptions and notices 
in systematic works, 1 chiefly under the specific names 
Filander and Hr unit , lmvo been founded until a com¬ 
paratively recent period. Several specimens of the Filander 
were seen, in a state of captivity, at Batavia, by Le Bruu; 
these, however, must have been transported from New Guinea, 
whence it has since been procured during the French expe¬ 
dition of the Astrolabe, and still more recently by the 
naturalists of an expedition sent out by the Dutch Govern¬ 
ment, an expedition which has added much to our knowledge 
of the natural history productions of the islands in the Indian 
Archipelago. One of the specimens of this last mentioned 
expedition is now in the British Museum, and enables me to 
give an original description. The dimensions of tliis specimen 
are as follows :■— 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the tip of the nose to the root 
of the tail 29 3 
" of tail. 18 3 
11 of tarsus .. 6 0 
“ from nose to ear . 5 1 
11 of ear . 1 10 
“ of fore leg, from elbow to ends of 
fingers . 7 6 
The Filander, like the Tree-Kangaroos, has the fur radiating 
from a point rather behind the shoulders, and the hair on the 
neck directed forwards as in those animals. The fur is 
remarkably short, rather soft, and has very little gloss; on the 
crown oi the head the hairs have their points directed inwards 
and backwards, and there meeting the hairs of the neck, which 
have the points directed forwards, a small tuft is formed at 
1 Desmarest must be excepted, he haring described a very distinct species 
{.Macropus Ualabatui) under the name Macropu* Brunii , supposing that i t 
was identical with the New Guinea animal. 
