216 Mr. Ogilby's Descriptions of two new Kangaroos — Zanthoxylum Novae Zelandise. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. p. 291. t. 33.— Poroki-wiri of the Islanders. R. Cunningham. New Zealand (Middle Island). — 1773, G. Forster. (Northern Island), a tree twenty-five feet high, frequent on the banks of the Kana-Kana and other rivers at the Bay of Islands, Wangaroa, &c. — 1826, A. Cunningham. — 1834, R. Cunningham. 337. H. scabra, foliis elliptico-ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis distanter ser-ratis utrhique ramulisque scabris, corymbis axillaribus strigoso-pilosis. Spreng.1 conf. Steud. Nomencl. Bot. p. 390. New Zealand (Northern Island), a tree thirty feet high, Keri-Keri river, Bay of Islands. — 1826, Allan Cunningham. 4. Broussonetia, Vent. tab. 3. p. 567. 338. B. papyrifera. Duham. Arb. ii. xvi. t. 5. Willd. Sp. PL 4. p. 743. Andr. Repos. t. 480. — Morus papyrifera. L. Forst. Prodr. n. 347. New Zealand, in the northern parts of the Northern Island. — 1769, Cook. After enumerating certain plants that he observed in cultivation among the New Zealanders, on his first visit in 1769, Capt. Cook adds, ** We also found the Chinese Paper Mulberry Tree, the same as that of which the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands make their cloth ; but it was scarce, and only used to wear as an ornament in the holes which they make in their ears." — Cook's First Voyage, iii. p. 443. Obs. An vere indigena ? [To be continued.] XXIII. — Observations upon some recent Communications of Mr. J. E. Gray, of the British Museum, to the Annals of Natural History ; with Descriptions of two New Kangaroos from Van Diemen's Land. By W. Ogilby, Esq., M.A., F.R.A.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S., &c. In the first number of the Annals of Natural History, p. 27, Mr. Gray has given a notice of two skins of an animal originally described by the late Mr. Bennett, but which that gentleman refrained from naming, because from the imperfect nature of the materials at his disposal, he was not certain whether it was a Zebra or an Antelope. Mr. Bennett's own opinion originally was that the animal in ques-tion belonged to the genus Equus ; but the researches which, as most zoologists know, I have myself prosecuted for the last six years on the subject of the Ruminantia, enabled me to arrive at a more just conclusion, and to determine both the characters and affi-nities of this beautiful quadruped. This result I communicated to Mr. Bennett, expressly stating to him my conviction that it was
Observations upon some recent communications of Mr. J.E. Gray, of the British Museum, to the Annals of Natural History; with descriptions of two new kangaroos from Van Diemen's Land
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