Banded Hare-Wallaby ~ Year 1807

The banded hare-wallaby is found on the Islands of Bernier and Dorre off western Australia. The authors, zoologist François Péron and illustrator Charles Lesueur, described a specimen collected at Bernier Island during their visit to the region in 1801, naming the new species as Kangurus faciatus. This print comes from the work illustrating the expedition by Nicolas Baudin published in the year 1807.