[Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Grey]@TWC D-Link bookJournals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) CHAPTER 18 63/223
Macropus laniger. This name must be rejected as the animal is not wool-bearing.
The skin in the Paris Museum is made up with the skin of a sheep.
M.Desmarest's description of the female M.rufogriseus in the New Dictionary, very nearly agrees with this species, but Mr.Gould is inclined to consider the specimen he was shown for that species in the Paris Museum was M. major. Number 57.
Halmaturus elegans. The description of Mr.Lambert is so short that it has hitherto been considered impossible to determine it with accuracy; but on comparing the coloured plate which is bound up with Sir Joseph Banks' copy of the volume of the Transactions containing the paper, now in the Museum Library, with the specimens of kangaroos in the Museum collection, I have very little doubt of its being intended for one which Mr.Gould considers as identical with M.ruficollis of M.Desmarest.
M.Desmarest's animal is said to come from King's Island, in Bass Strait, while Mr.Gould's animal, like the one Mr.Lambert described, is from New South Wales.
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