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WALLABY

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALLABY  , a native name, used in literature for any member of a

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section of the zoological genus Macro pus, with naked muffle, frequenting forests and dense scrubs . With respect to their
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size they are distinguished as large wallabies and small wallabies, some of the latter being no bigger than a
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rabbit . From the localities in which they are found they are also called
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brush kangaroos . See
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KANGAROO .

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