Also 9 wallooroo, wolloroo (see Morris, Austral Engl.), walluru. [Native Australian wolarū: cf. WALLABY.] A large species of kangaroo, Macropus robustus; in Queensland and New South Wales applied chiefly to the black variety. Also wallaroo kangaroo.
1827. P. Cunningham, Two Years N.S.W., I. xvii. 309. The wallaroo, of a blackish colour, with coarse shaggy fur, inhabiting the hills.
1845. J. O. Balfour, Sk. N. S. Wales, 25. The wallaroo kangaroo is of a darkish red colour, and weighs about 60 lbs.
1847. Leichhardt, Jrnl., xiii. 458. He had been guided by a beaten track of Wallurus.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right, v. The southern forest where … the forester kangaroo and the wallaroo alone run.
