OAIMARD’S BAT-KANGAROO. 
207 
HYPSIPRYMNUS {Bettongia) G AIM ARBI. 
Guimards Rat-Kangaroo. 
Kangurus Gaimardi. Desmarrst, Mammalia, Supplement, p. 542, 
Sp. 842,1822. 
Ilypxiprymnus White . Quoy and Gaimahd, Voyage dc PUnrnie, Zool. 
p. 62, Plate 10, 1821. 
Kangurus Upturns. Quoy and Gaimard, Bullet, des Sci. Nat. 
January, 1824, tom. i. p. 271. 
Hypsiprymnus Phillippi. Ocilby, Proceedings Zoological Society for May, 
1838, p. 62. 
41 formorus, Ogilhy, I. c. p. 62. 
44 minor. (Potoroo), Cur. R2g. Animal, p. 185. 
Fur long and soft; prevailing hue ashy brown, much suffused 
with rusty yellow; under parts white, suffused with yellow ; 
ears internally clothed with yellow hairs; feet dirty white, 
the heel and sides of the hind foot yellowish mat coloured ; 
tail of a brightish rust colour above, paler beneath ; the 
apical third clothed on the upper surface with longish, 
bushy, brown-black hairs, but at the extreme point with a 
few white hairs. The fur both on upper and under parts of 
the body is grey next the skin; the hairs on the back are 
blackish at the point, and annulated with yellowish white 
below the point. From specimen in the Paris Museum. 
[One inch or more of the apical portion of the tail is gene¬ 
rally white.] 
Inhabits New South Wales and South Australia. 
Being tho only Kangaroo-Rat known to the French zoolo¬ 
gists, and coming from the same part of Australia, it was 
natural that the present species should have been confounded 
with the Potoroo of White. This last mentioned animal 
(which is the Macropu* minor of Shaw), however, is a dis¬ 
tinct species, ns is proved by the skull of White’s original 
