HALMATURUS AGILIS, Goud. Agile Wallaby. Halmaturus agilis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., part ix. p. 81.—Ib. Monograph of the Macropodide, pl. Hamb. et Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, pl. 19.—Gould, Mon. of Macropodide, pl. - Binoé, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., part x. p. 58. Macropus (Halmaturus) agilis, Waterh. Nat. Hist. of Mamm., vol. i. p. 108. Turs species of Wallaby may be readily distinguished from every other by its short, wiry, adpressed hair, and the almost uniform sandy-brown colour of the body; the male is also remarkable for having very ful incisors, and for having the outer toe much developed, whence results a deep cleft between it and the head is also longer and more pointed than in any other species which I have seen. of Australia. power the middle one ; The Agile Wallaby appears to be abundant on all the low swampy lands of the northern coast I have seen many specimens from the Cobourg Peninsula; and it is common both near the I have also had others placed at my disposal for the purpose of It settlement of Port Essington and at Raffles’ Bay. by Mr. Bynoe of H.M.S. the Beagle, which were collected on the shores of Torres Straits. describing species, readily eluding the dogs employed in hunting it by its extreme activity is stated to be a most agile in leaping among the high grass; when chased it frequently seeks shelter in the thick beds of mangroves, passing over the muddy In size, when full-grown, the male is nearly equal to HI, Ualabatus. y Mr. John M‘Gillivray on the animals observed by him at Port Essington, it is stated that a young one, very large in proportion to the size of the mother, was taken from the pouch of a female ow’s Bay, and that it did not differ in its colouring im any respect. He adds that the e it frequents the tall grass of the low grounds, especially h it generally forms its lair. It is extremely flats in such a manner as almost to baffle pursuit. In some notes b shot by him at Barr species is very common at Port Essington, wher where the Pandanus-tree abounds, under the shelter of whic sued by dogs makes for the nearest jungle or mangrove thicket. active in its movements, and when pur istinct species in the 10th Part of the I now believe the Halmaturus Binoe, described by me as a d “Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,” to be merely the young of this animal, and I have consequently placed that name among its synonyms. Fur rather short, adpressed, and harsh to the touch; general colour sandy-yellow ; the upper surface of the head and body freely pencilled with blackish, the hairs being of this colour at the point ; chin, throat and chest dull white; abdomen yellow, the hairs terminated with white ; limbs pale sandy-yellow externally ally pencilled with blackish ; tarsi nearly white, passing into k from the lip to beneath the eye, parallel with which is another of a dusky hue; at the base and broadly margined with black at the apex, and with a narrow black line along the inner edge; on each side of the rump an oblique whitish line; tail spar at the base, which is like the body; the and white on their inner side, the arms extern rusty on the toes; lips whitish, and a whitish mar ears white within, externally sandy-yellow ingly clothed with nearly white hairs, except tip of the tail black. Male. feet. inches. Length from the nose to Aen acerOletien tall Gamsteer = 0 ee 5 ‘ © Gotta Pee canst and toes, including the nail 10 a , arms and hand, including the nails os 9 ace nmonn the tip of the nose to the base of the ear. 6 ties ea ae 3 5) eal The first of the accompanying Plates represents the head of a dead animal of the natural size ; the second, reduced figures of both sexes. — Be A SENESENE Al/ Co? aE aENE SESABEDERE AE SEIEDE EMERG: y, yi ¥Q I, cS 2B y *, — yi = a; Sa cs - Vr ‘5 2 6. Bg > ES £9 re a - NT :