1888. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 15:
"We were sick of kangarooing, like the dogs themselves, that as they grew old would run a little way and then pull up if a mob came jump, jump, past them."
<hw>Kangaroo-Mouse</hw>, <i>n</i>. more strictly called the <i>Pouched-Mouse</i> (q.v.).
1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 256:
"It is a long chain from the big forester, down through the different varieties of wallaby to the kangaroo-rat, and finally, to the tiny interesting little creature known on the plains as the `kangaroo-mouse'; but all have the same characteristics."
<hw>Kangaroo-net</hw>, <i>n</i>. net made by the natives to catch the kangaroo.
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 45:
"I found . . . four fine kangaroo-nets, made of the bark of sterculia."
<hw>Kangaroo-Rat</hw>, or <hw>Rat-Kangaroo</hw>, <i>n</i>. the name applied to species of Marsupials belonging to the following genera, viz.—