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between the ears, which are densely clothed with very long 
hairs, black, excepting at the point, where they are of a 
deep brown hue : head clothed with short hairs ; yellowish 
brown ; of a deeper brown hue around the eye, ami on the 
muzzle ; cheeks brown-yellow; under parts of body brown, 
also clothed with short hairs : tail very long, densely clothed 
with moderately long, and very harsh black hairs, but around 
the base they have a deep brown hue. 
Inhabits New Guinea. 
This animal has received the specific name Ursinus no 
doubt on account of a certain superficial resemblance which 
it has to a small bear, arising in a great measure from the 
nature of its fur, which differs much from that of the ordinary 
Kangaroos, not only in being harsh and glossy, but in being 
composed of one kind of hair only: it would appear that 
that kind of hair which forms the chief clothing in the 
ordinary Kangaroos is here entirely, or almost entirely, want- 
ing, and that the hairs representing the longer interspersed 
hairs in the fur in those animals, here forms the entire coat. 
With all the essential characters of the true Kangaroos, 
we find, in these tree-climbing animals, the limbs modified 
for their different mode of life—the long hind legs of the 
Kangaroo proper, are replaced by comparatively short legs, 
and the fore legs are but little inferior in size to the posterior 
limbs ; the strong fore feet are armed with stout and long 
claws, compressed, and much curved, and fitted for clinging 
to the inequalities of the bark of the trees. The enormously 
Jong tail no doubt helps to balance the animal whilst on the 
branches ol the lofty trees which it ascends in quest of food. 
I he hairs on the back average about an inch and a half in 
length ; those on the head, as far hack as the ears, and on the 
whole of the under parts of the body, are short; on the tail, 
which is densely clothed throughout, they are very harsh, and 
by no means decumbent; they average perhaps at about half 
