considerably longer than the toes; hind-toe strong, lateral toes equal; plumage dense and silky.

PYCNOPTILUS FLOCCOSUS.

General plumage brown, inclining to rufous on the lower part of the back, upper tail-coverts and tail; forehead, lores, throat and breast dark reddish buff, with a very narrow crescent of dark brown at the tip of each feather; centre of the abdomen greyish brown, crossed by crescentic bands of black; flanks and vent brown, passing into deep rufous on the under tail-coverts; bill brown; base of the under mandible fleshy brown; legs and feet fleshy brown.

Total length, 7 inches; bill,; wing, 23; tail, 3; tarsi, 14.
Hab. Interior of New South Wales.

8. DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF Oriole.
BY CHARLES LUCIEN, PRINCE BONAPARTE.

ORIOLUS BRODERIPII, Bp. (Aves, Pl. XVIII.) O. vividè flavoaurantius; coroná occipitali, alis, rectricibusque ad basim mediis duabus ferè omnino nigris; speculo alari flavo.

Hab. in insulâ Sumbava.

Magistratui illustri, litium Conciliatori intricatissimarum, qui intimas Doctrinæ Naturalis recessus Populo humanissimè patefacit !

After the separation of aureus and regens this new species is certainly the most splendid of the true Orioli, of which I know fifteen species. It must therefore stand first in the series coming from Sericulus. Its nearest approach is O. cochinchinensis (hippocrepis, Wagl.), similar in form and stature. But in addition to its even stouter bill, the general orange hue and the yellow spot on the wing will at once distinguish our Broderipii.

Having dedicated an Oriole to Broderip, I dedicate a second new species to our Italian Broderip, Professor Fr. Baraffi of Turin, the celebrated and learned traveller.

ORIOLUS BARAFFII, Bp. O. flavo-olivaceus; cervice, corporeque subtus flavissimis; capite, nuchá, juguloque nigerrimis; alis nigris, speculo angustè albo; rectricibus nigris, apice externarum magis magisque flavis.

Hab. Ashantee.

This bird, received at the Leyden Museum from the West Coast of Africa, is similar in stature and colour to Oriolus moloxita, Rüpp. of the Eastern Coast, but well distinguished by the conical marking on the tail, which is similar to that of the common Oriole, the Broderipii, and chinensis, entirely wanting on the tail of O. moloxita.

INDEX.

The names of New Species, and of Species newly characterized, are printed in Ro-
man Characters: those of Species previously known in Italics: those of Species re-
specting which Anatomical Observations are made, in CAPITALS.