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present species appears to rank very near the doubtful barbet of Latham,from which however it is clearly distinct. It is but little above seven inchesin length, the female rather less. The bill is of a blackish horn-colour, aboutnine eighths of an inch from the gape to the tip, and about three quarters ofan inch in thickness at the base ; it has two notches in the edge of the uppermandible, and a sort of indentation in the lower mandible, as if to receivethe foremost notch, but there is no appearance whatever of any channel onthe bill as in Bucco dubius. The general colour of the plumage of the body,above and below, as also of the tail, is black ; but the whole face taking iuthe front, part of the crown, beyond the eyes, ears, and as far as the breast,covered with narrow feathers of a sharp bristly nature, and of a bright redcolour; the wings are dusky, the lesser coverts margined .with dirty whiteon the outer web, and the quills with yellowish green, except towards thetips of the primaries ; the under wing coverts, and the inner margins of thequills towards the base are white; the legs and claws are dark.
No. II. Oriolus Galbula, Var.
Size rather above that of a blackbird: length something under nineinches ; bill of a reddish brown, an inch and a quarter long Plumage ofthe head and neck, the whole body, the lesser wing coverts, and the tailwith the exception of the four middle feathers, of a fine golden yellow: allthe feathers of the wing are more or less deeply margined on the exteriorweb, asw'ell as tipped with yellow of which there is a patch in the middleof the wing. The two middle feathers of the tail are black, with the ex-treme tips yellow ; the next on each side is still more deeply tipped, andalso margined on both webs with yellow ; the rest have the base of theirshafts black. Legs dusky, perhaps lead colour; claws dark. The prin-cipal difference of this bird from that in the Gen. Syn. Vol. I. p. 449, appearsto be, that in this every feather is marked with yellow, while in DoctorLatham’s bird, this only occurs “ here and there;” the tail is also verydifferent, though the general character of the bird, and the disposition ofits plumage sufficiently point it out as a variety only of the galbula; butthat bird surely belongs to the thrush, rather than to the Oriole genus ?