21G Mr. Ogilby's Descriptions of two new Kangaroos 



— Zanthoxylura Novae Zelandia?. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. p. 291. /. 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. — 182G, A. Cunningham. 

 — 183 J, R. Cunningham. 



337. H. scabra, foliis elliptico-ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis distanter ser- 

 ratis utrinque ramulisque scahris, 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. — 182C, Allan Cunningham. 



4. Broussonetia, Vent. tab. 3. p. 567. 



338. B. papyrifera. DuJiam. Arb. ii. xvi. t. 5. Willd. Sp. PI. 4. p. 743. 

 Andr. Rcpos. 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 Diemetfs 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 Ruminant ia, 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 



