MACROPUS FRENATUS, aou. 
Bridled n 
Roos Cher Aitina sere sadi brevi, colore e fusco cinéren ; corpore ahlê albo ; ab accipite utringue super humeros 
Lc عاد تسس‎ ; interspatio occipitegue nigrescente: caudà tubereula pareo corneo pilis nigrescentibus abscondito 
pl مض سور‎ ; tarsis artubusque anticis ferè albis, digitis pilis obscuris paucis adspersis. 
Facco Fue et gd xaf; general tint of the upper surface grey; under surface white; a white line diverges 
جوم‎ rhe ہم ہس‎ euch side backwards over the shoulder, and passes into the white of the belly a little 
تی‎ Ghe insertion of the arms; the space between these lines is blackish brown, narrow at the oceiput 
aei gradually expanding as it approaches the shoulder, where the colour blends into the ordinary tint of the 
apper parts; tail mingled black and white, the black predominating on the upper and under surface of ‘the 
extremity; on the chin a small dusky mark; legs whitish; upper surface af the feet mingled black and white; 
arms very pale grey, internally white ; hands asingléd black and white, tinged with brown on the fingers; inner 
surface of the ears white; a white wrk Green the tip of the E 
neck a wash: of rich-cream elisa. 
Length from tb: wm چک جد‎ wen جو‎ the dat. . - Wéi LL ` ef e 3 
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Tuts elegant little Kangaroo, whose weight varies from ten to fifteen dac is an inhabitant EE ME 
Holland to the ege ut té Tiras Pina: ME سرت با وا ین‎ Mc PCR EK سرت‎ 
extent of country towards the central portion of Australia. ` — 
The paucity of information that has been obtained respecting the Kangaroos of the interior, particularly those so 
strikingly marked as the present species, is somewhat remarkable, considering the number of scientifie men who have at E 
different periods traversed varions portions of the country which these animals inhabit: as far as I am aware, none of 
che او‎ of Oxley, Start or Mitchell make the slightest mention of the one bere represented. On arriving in the — 
shiek of tie suma! were presented to me by Mr. Stephen and Mr. Charles Coxen, and I afterwards had the‏ ,ورس 
"oer af Sapre meting witb it in û atate of patare, and of gaining some information respecting itx 
The geanest point s the colony st whiek F eucimatered it was Brezi, on the river Mokai, whence it extended‏ مت 
inhabits all the low mountain-ranges similar to those‏ گا into the interior as far as 1 had as opportunity of peoreesting.‏ 
of Brezi, whose elevation varies from ‚one to five ar six hundred feet, and which are of a sterile character—hot, dry,‏ 
stony, and thinly covered with shrub-like stunted trees. These situations are also the abode of the Halmaturus dorsalis,‏ 
with which I sometimes found the Macropus frenutus assocmting: but it differs from that species, which is strictly an ۱ 
mhahitant of the brushes, in frequenting the more open parts and occasionally even the plains. When started from its 
ws, bach is formed like that is omoi i of grass or a small bush, it bounds away with ye- ` 
Antal Sises, generally giving the best dogs a sharp run, and frequently effects its escape by gaining the thick. 
ہی وياد‎ "emp, we the hole of a decayed tree. And I recolleet on one occasion, that on being sharply pressed, the 
CTI af the tree, to an opening nearly fifteen feet from the ground, whence it leaped down before 
Oe "Së. E A بد‎ hing the hollow trunk of a fallen tree, from which it was finally taken by the band. 
la Se کہ لمحي كروي‎ ss die natives hunt this species with dogs, and often Kill it with spears, bommerengs and 
«n the Lower Namoi, I found myself among a tribe who succeed in captaring them‏ محريو او neuer dote‏ ولاه 
eied, are very well adapted to the purpose. On being made acquaitted with‏ هم ايوس ةك ,۳ with meth,‏ 
accompany me to the Brigaloe brush, in which the present species and the‏ جو my object, the thir ame v ed‏ 
ing at the skirts of the brush, the oldest men of the tribe separated froin‏ ویک جج Holmuturus dorsalis wine‏ 
yards long by three and a half feet wide, with which they proceeded’ to‏ پوس the resi. each two taking e si ie‏ 
wear last frequent, while the rest of the natives entered the brush on the‏ بب ٔ those parts where the‏ 
oppeete sede, to heat the bushes, wee ii dont shouts and yells drove the Kangaroos towards the nets by this means‏ 
Sir me = años specimens as I required. —‏ ان iu a simpre afternoon they‏ 
Ths تسود‎ always selecting dry یڈہ‎ mative: Seesid of water, re 
such fovadities heres rarely visited by expeditions of سنا‎ 
lts flesh, like that of the other small Kargaroes, E and when procarable was cito by we in وش‎ 
other meat, | 
The female ia considerably smaller in size, but is not distinguisbod by sny difference in kaat from the male; the 
سے‎ are quite as intense as in the male, and are even apparent in the fetus. 
n Hod consists of grass and various kinds of herbage. 
