H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 134:

"Though joys of which the poet rhymes
Was not for Bill an' me
I think we had some good old times
Out on the Wallaby."

<hw>Wallaroo</hw>, <i>n</i>. native name for a large species
of Kangaroo, the mountain kangaroo, <i>Macropus robustus</i>,
Gould. The black variety of Queensland and New South Wales is
called locally the <i>Wallaroo</i>, the name <i>Euro</i> being
given in South and Central Australia to the more rufous-
coloured variety of the same species.

In the aboriginal language, the word <i>walla</i> meant
`to jump,' and <i>walla-walla</i> `to jump quickly.'

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.:

"The wallaroo, of a blackish colour, with coarse shaggy fur,
inhabiting the hills."

1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 157:

"Some very fierce and ready to attack man, such as the large
mountain `wolloroo.'"

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 481:

"Charley shot a Wallooroo just as it was leaping, frightened
by our footsteps, out of its shady retreat to a pointed rock."

[On p. 458, Leichhardt spells <i>Wallurus</i>, plural]

1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 50:

"The Wallaroos grope through the tufts of the grass."

1868 (before). C. Harpur, `Creek of the Four Graves'(edition
1883), p. 49:

"Up the steep,
Between the climbing forest-growths they saw,
Perched on the bare abutments of the hills,
Where haply yet some lingering gleam fell through,
The wallaroo look forth."

[Footnote]: "A kind of large kangaroo, peculiar to the higher
and more difficult mountains."

1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 328:

"A wallaroo, a peculiar kind of kangaroo (<i>Macropus
robustus</i>), which was kept tame at a station, showed a
marked fondness for animal food, particularly for boiled salt
beef. A dove had been its companion, and these two animals
were the best of friends for half-a-year, when the wallaroo one
day killed its companion and partly ate it."

1895. `The Australasian,' June 22, 1181, col. 1 [Answers to
Correspondents]:

"Professor Baldwin Spencer kindly deals with the question as
follows:--What is the distinction between a wallaroo and a
wallaby?--A wallaroo is a special form of kangaroo (<i>Macropus
robustus</i>) living in the inland parts of Queensland and New
South Wales. Wallaby is the name given to several kinds of
smaller kangaroos, s