Photo by Billington] [Queensland.
SILVER-GREY KANGAROO.
In general form the kangaroos are so like one another that one figure would almost serve for all.
At the present day, with the exception of the small group of the American Opossums and the Selvas, the entire assemblage of marsupials, comprising some 36 genera and 150 species, are, singularly to relate, exclusively found in Australia, New Guinea, and the few neighbouring islands recognised by systematic zoologists as pertaining to the Australasian region. What is more, this region of Australasia produces, with some few insignificant exceptions, chiefly rodents, no other indigenous mammals.
Photo by E. Landor] [Ealing.
BLACK-STRIPED WALLABY.
Female with half-grown young in her pouch.
