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INTRODUCTION.

posed the new sectional title of Osphranter. See Proceedings of Zool. Soc. part ix. p. 80.

64. Osphranter rufus, GouldVol. II. Pls. 6 & 7.

Macropus (Osphranter) pictus, Gould in Proc. Zool. Soc. part xxviii. p. 373.

Habitat. New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.


65. Osphranter Antilopinus, GouldVol. II. Pls. 8 & 9.

Habitat. Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Australia.


66. Osphranter Isabellinus, Gould.

Osphranter? Isabellinus, Gould in Proc. Zool. Soc. part ix. p. 81.

General colour bright fulvous or sandy red; fur rather short, and soft to the touch; hairs uniform in tint to the base; throat and under parts of the body white, faintly tinted with yellowish in parts; fur of the belly long and very soft; the white or whitish colouring of the under parts and the uniform fulvous colouring of the upper surface and sides of the body do not blend gradually; tail similar in colour to the upper surface, but rather paler and uniform; hair of the fore feet and toes brown in front, yellowish on the sides.

The above description was taken from an imperfect skin procured at Barrow Island, on the north-west coast of Australia, and transmitted to me by Captain Stokes of H. M. S. "Beagle," and, in my opinion, pertains to a species of which no other example has yet been sent to Europe. Under this impression I have bestowed upon it the above specific appellation.

Habitat. Barrow Island, north-west coast of Australia.


67. Osphranter robustus, GouldVol. II. Pls. 10 & 11.

Habitat. Mountain-ranges of the interior of New South Wales.


68. Osphranter? ParryiVol. II. Pls. 12 & 13.

Habitat. Rocky mountains of the east coast of Australia from Port Stephens to Wide Bay.