This mistake was occasioned merely by the adherence of the engraver to the drawing from which he worked; which, among others, came from Mr.White, the surgeon at Port Jackson: too implicit reliance being placed on an authority which, in this respect, turned out delusive.
With respect to the representations of the Kanguroo which have hitherto been published, it may be observed, that nothing is wanting to that in Captain Cook's first voyage, except the character of the toes of the hinder legs, and in particular the distinguishing of a minute, but very characteristic circumstance, in the inner claw of each, which is divided down the middle into two, as if split by some sharp instrument.

The same remark is applicable to the plate in Mr.Pennant's History of Quadrupeds, which appears to have been copied from the other.

Mr.Pennant was the first author who gave a scientific description of the Kanguroo, in his History of Quadrupeds, p.306.No.184.and of the New Holland Opossum, p.310.No.

188.
Zimmerman, in his Zoologia Geographica, p.

527, confounds the Kanguroo with the great Jerboa of Africa, described by Allamand, in his additions to Buffon; and by Mr.Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, p.432.No.