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MARSUPIATA.—MACROPODIDÆ.
shooting of a specimen by Mr. Gore; the individual from which the figure given in the voyage was drawn, and probably the same which afforded to Dr. Shaw the occasion of constituting the genus.
KANGAROO.
Pennant's account of the habits of this species is terse and accurate. "Inhabits the western side of New Holland, and has as yet been discovered in no other part of the world.[1] The natives call
- ↑ It is now ascertained to be extensively spread in the country intermediate between New South Wales and South Australia, and to be common also in Van Diemen's Land.
