1832. J. Bischoff, `Van Diemen's Land,' vol. ii. p. 27:
"There are three or four varieties of kangaroos; those most common are denominated the forester and brush kangaroo."
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 423:
"I called this river the `Red Kangaroo River,' for in approaching it we first saw the red forester of Port Essington."
1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 67:
"And the forester snuffing the air
Will bound from his covert so dark."
1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 15:
"We have never had one of the largest kind—the Forester Kangaroo (<i>Macropus gigantes</i>)—tame, for they have been so hunted and destroyed that there are very few left in Tasmania, and those are in private preserves, or very remote out-of-the-way places, and rarely seen. . . . The aborigines called the old father of a flock a Boomer. These were often very large: about five feet high in their usual position, but when standing quite up, they were fully six feet . . . and weighing 150 or 200 pounds."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xix. p. 181:
"The dogs . . . made for them as if they had been a brace of stray foresters from the adjacent ranges."