HALMATURUS UALABATUS.
Black Wallaby.

Kangurus Ualabatus, Less. et Garn. Zool. de la Coquille, tom. i. p. 161. pl. 7.
Macropus Ualabatus, Less. Man. de Mamm., p. 227.—Waterh. in Jard. Nat. Lib. Marsupialia, p. 219.
Kangurus Brunti, Desm. Ency. Méth. Mamm., p. 275.
Halmaturus Lessonu, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. i. new ser. p. 583.
nemoralis, Wagn. in Schreb. Saug. Suppl., part 111-112. p. 114 (Waterhouse).
Macropus (Halmaturus) Ualabatus, Waterh. Nat. Hist. of Mamm., vol. 1. p. 136.

 

Tuts well-marked species inhabits, with but few exceptions, all the thick brushes of New South Wales,
especially such as are wet or humid. I hunted it successfully at [awarra, on the small islands at the mouth
of the Hunter, and on the Liverpool ranges. In the former localities it was frequently found in the wettest
places, either among the high grass and other dense vegetation, or among the thick mangroves, whose roots
are washed by each succeeding tide. The islands at the mouth of the Hunter, particularly Mosquito and
Ash Islands, are not unfrequently flooded to a great extent, yet it leaps through the shallow parts with
apparent enjoyment, and even crosses the river from one island to the other. On the Liverpool range it as
strictly keeps to such parts as are most humid—often near the crowns of mountains, which are frequently
enveloped in fogs and dews. Over what extent of country this species will be found to range, it is im-
possible to say ; as yet, I have only observed it in the localities above mentioned ; the dense brushes of the
Clarence, Manning, and, in fact, all the brushes from Western Port to Moreton Bay, are probably in-
habited by it.

Independently of its dark colouring, lengthened tail, and
from every other species by the jet-black spot immediately beneath the insertion of the arm. When full-
grown, this animal is about the size of H. Bennetti and H. ruficollis.

Fur long, harsh to the touch; general colour blackish-brown, pencill

stiff wiry hair, it may be readily distinguished

ed with a lighter hue; under surface
yellowish in some specimens, in others deep sandy- or rusty-red; ears clothed with dirty-white hairs
a rusty patch surrounds their base, and is extended on the neck ; cheeks pale brown, mingled
and chin whitish; wrists and

arsi black; basal third

internally ;
with dirty-white ; upper part of the muzzle and round the eye blackish ; lips
hand black ; immediately beneath the insertion of the fore-arm a jet-black patch; t

of the tail like the body, the remainder black.

Male.
feet. inches.

Length from the tip of the nose to the extremity of the tail 4 4
Peolaualll ee ee 1 As

» >, tarsus and toes, including the nail 8i

» 9, arm and hand, including the nails ee ae 62

»  » face from the tip of the nose to the base of the ear. 4L

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The first Plate represents the head of the animal the size of life; the second, entire figures necessarily

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