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November 27, 1849. 
R. H. Solly, Esq., in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On tHE LorINE GENUS oF PARROTS, ECLECTUS, WITH THE 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES, Ectectus CorNELIA. By 
Cuarues Lucian, Prince Bonaparte, F.M.L., F.Z.S. 
ETC. ETC. ETC. 
The richness, good scientific order and proper management of the 
well-kept Zoological Garden of Amsterdam, as well as the courtesy 
and liberality of its able director, Mr. Westerman, will strike every 
naturalist, even though coming, as I did myself, from England. The 
establishment has been lately illustrated by the pen of H. Schlegel, 
equally superior when it removes the boundaries of science for pro- 
fessed zoologists, or renders it useful and popular to ladies and chil- 
dren. With or without his valuable book, a visit to this attractive spot 
would be fully repaid by the inspection alone of the gigantic Sala- 
mander, Sieboldia maxima, Bonap., which has grown more than a foot 
in length since I gave it that generic name ; not to speak of the beau- 
tiful collection of living Fringillide and Parrots. Among the rarest 
and most splendid species of these latter birds, collected from every 
quarter of the globe, I will only mention, from America, a magnificent 
Macrocercus hyacinthinus, Vieill., with the bill still larger than usual ; 
from Africa, the Congo Jack, Pionus gulielmi, established a few weeks 
ago by Sir William Jardine; and from Malasia the Lorine, which I 
now introduce to the Zoological Society, sure of their receiving with 
forbearance my compendious account of its relations. 
The genus Eclectus of Wagler holds a conspicuous place in the 
family of Lorine Parrots, and is eminently natural if kept within the 
proper boundaries assigned to it by its founder, including his two only 
species, and, as a third, my new one, all from the Moluccan islands, 
and similar in form, having a large stature, the plumage loose, red, 
with more or less blue, a powerful black bill with scarcely a cere, a 
smooth simple tongue, and a shortish square tail. 
1. Ectectus puniceus. JL. coccineus, dorso, alis, cauddque pur- 
pureo-fuscescentibus ; margine alarum, tectricibus inferioribus, 
remigibus, annulo ophthalmico, fascid abdominali et torque in-, 
terscapulari, pulchré cyaneis ; crisso, et caude apice, rubris. 
Synonyms. 
Psittacus puniceus, Gm. (exclus. specimin. rostro rubro.) 
Lorius amboinensis? Briss. Orn. iv. p. 231. sp. 19. 
Psittacus cardinalis? Bodd. ex Lory d Amboine, Buff. Pl. Enl.518. 
Domicella! punicea? Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Act. Monac. p. 569. 
gen. xill. sp. 3. 
