OCR Text |
Show 126 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [Mar. 10, of a species allied to the Red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus), about half-grown. After careful examination, Mr. Sclater had failed in his endeavours to associate this specimen with any described species, and therefore proposed as its temporary designation MACROPUS ERUBESCENS, sp. nov. (Plate X.) General size and appearance that of a young female Red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus), but rather larger than the specimen of the latter species born in September last (with which it is now associated), and ears distinctly larger, and fur thinner and longer. Macropus erubescens. Body above pinkish grey, mixed with black hairs, except on nape and upper back ; below paler, mesially white. Tail pale brown. Hands and feet blackish. Ears large, on the outer surface blackish, and nearly naked or sparingly covered with very short blackish hairs, as in M. melanops. Vertical stripe between the ears and nose black. Hab. Vicinity of Lake Hope, 200 miles in the interior from Port Augusta, head of Spencer's Gulf, South Australia. Obs. Mr. Gould, in his 'Mammals of Australia' (Intr. p. xxix), |