188 
MACROPODIDjE. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 
20 
6 
44 of tail ... ... . 
23 
9 
44 of tarsus 
4 
10 
44 from tip of nose to ear . 
3 
6 
44 of ears 
•* of fore leg (from elbow joint to the 
1 
3 
end of the nails) ... . 
7 
3 
Length of skuU 1 ... ... . . 
4 
3 
Width of ditto . . 
2 
H 
44 44 between orbits 
0 
10} 
Length of nasal bones ... . 
1 
4 
Width of ditto behind 
0 
7 
44 44 near the apex . 
0 
51 
Length of zygoma 
“ from anterior root of zygoma to 
•> 
5} 
apex of intermaxillaries . 
44 of the three upper incisors taken 
1 
4* 
together .. 
0 
DENDROLAGUS INUSTUS. 
Brown Tree-Kangaroo. 
Dendrolagus in us tux. Muller, Zoogdiercn van den Indischen Archipel. Pt. 4, 
PI. 20 ; head, PI. 22, fig. 2 ; skull, PI. 23, figs. 4-6, 
and PI. 24, fig. 4 ; bones of hind leg, figs. 5 and 6. 
" 14 Gould, Monograph of the Macropodida, Pt. 2, 
PI. 12. 
Fur rather long, and somewhat harsh ; brown, pencilled with 
brown-white ; under parts of head and body impure white, 
fore and hind legs brown-white ; feet dusky brown. 
Inhabits New Guinea. 
This species is nbout the same size us D. ursinus, from 
which it differs not only in being of a brown colour, but in 
1 These dimensions arc taken from the figures in the Plates of Dr. Muller's 
work, already quoted. 
