Miscellanea. 1938 
A Note on tHE Boxuara Crover. By Witiiam Taytor, Esq., 
L.S. 
[Proc. Lin. Society, November 1840.] 
Mr. Taytor obtained from Mr. Loudon a small parcel of the 
Bokhara Clover (Melilotus arborea), which was sown early in April, 
1839. The plant proved to be biennial, and stood the winter well. 
On the 28th of April following, a part of the crop was cut down, the 
stems measuring 15 inches in height ; and on the 28th of May, from 
the same piece of ground, a second crop was obtained, which had 
reached the height of 16 inches ; a third on the 28th of June, 17 
inches; a fourth in July, 16 inches; a fifth in August, 15 inches ; 
and a sixth in September, measuring 14 inches. According to Mr. 
Taylor’s calculation, the Bokhara Clover would yield from 20 to 30 
tons of green herbage per acre, and from 2 to 3 tons of strong fibre, 
which appears capable of being manufactured into cordage. 
The flowers are white and very fragrant, and the plant does not 
appear to differ specifically from the Melilotus leucantha, although 
regarded by De Candolle as a distinct species. 
ON NEW SPECIES of MAMMALIA AND Birps FRoM AUSTRALIA. 
By J. Goutp, F.R.S., F Z.8., Erc. 
[Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., November 1849.] 
Tue Proceedings of the Zoological Society having been the 
means by which the many interesting novelties in Natural History 
obtained during the surveying voyages of Captains King, Beechey, 
Belcher, Fitzroy, Blackwood, &c., by the naturalists attached to 
their several ships, have been made known to the scientific world, a 
more appropriate channel cannot, I presume, be selected for com- 
municating the interesting results, so far as known, of the expedition 
now exploring the coasts of Northern and Kastern Australia, under 
the command of Capt. Owen Stanley ; and I therefore hasten to lay 
before the Society such novelties as have been received in the two 
branches of natural history to which I have devoted myself, viz., 
Mammalia and Birds. 
The collection recently sent home by Capt. Stanley and Mr. 
MacGillivray, the able naturalist of H.M.S. “ Rattlesnake,” is a 
very fine one: it has been procured on what may be considered 
hitherto untrodden ground ; I cannot therefore do better than give a 
list of the whole,—such lists, showing the geographical distribution 
of species, being in the highest degree valuable. I have said that 
the collection is a very fine one, and I must not omit observing that 
much credit is due to Capt. Stanley for affording the naturalist the 
requisite opportunities for obtaining so many interesting species ; 
nor is a lesser meed of praise due to Mr. MacGillivray, for the very 
excellent manner in which the specimens are prepared, and the 
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