HALMATURUS BILLARDIERI.

Tasmanian Wallaby.

 

HEAD AND FORE PARTS, OF THE SIZE OF LIFE.

As the Rabbit is to us one of the commonest and most numerous of our native quadrupeds,
so is the Tasmanian Wallaby to the colonists of Van Diemen’s Land. Exceeding a Hare
in size, this useful animal is most numerous in all the scrubby and humid situations of
the island. Its physiognomy, which is striking and singular, is well portrayed in the ac-
companying illustration, while the reduced figures will give a just idea of the entire
animal. It will be seen that this species is much darker in colour than most of its

a character of fur which is well

 

allies, and that its coat is longer and more shaggy
adapted to its more southern, wetter, and colder climate, while its hue is in unison with
that of the herbage amidst which it dwells. The interior of the forest, amid stranded
trees and rank vegetation, are the situations in which this animal forms its runs, and from
which it is not easily driven; but for these and for all other details respecting the species

the reader is referred to the page accompanying the reduced figures.

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