HALMATURUS THETIDIS, F Cw. et Geog.
Pademelon Wallaby.

 

Heap anv Fore Parts, OF THE SIZE OF NATURE.

TuE accompanying life-sized head represents the common Pademelon of the colonists,
a shy and timid creature, which bounds away on the least disturbance. It runs in the
same brushes with the H. Ualabatus and H. Parma; and every extensive district of this
kind, from Illawarra to the Clarence, was tenanted by great numbers of it at the period
of my visit to New South Wales. Its flesh is good, and is frequently eaten by the
settlers and the aborigines. Considerable difference occurs in the colouring of this animal,—
specimens obtained in one locality having the red hue of the neck predominating over the
brown, while in those from another the contrary is the case.

The front figure represents a moderate-sized adult male, of the size of life, while the

distant figure of the female is a trifle less. A more lengthened description, and reduced

figures of the entire animal, will be found on the next Plate and page.

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