Scientific .N'otices. 273 



Motice on some new species of Birds. By N. A. Vigors, Esq. 



I beg to insert the following brief characters of some interesting species 

 of birds lately come to my knowledge. I hope to give a more detailed 

 description of them, accompanied by figures of the more important species, 

 in the next number of this Journal, together with the characters of some 

 other species lately added to the collection of the Zoological Society, 

 which I have not as yet had leisure to examine with accuracy. The acces- 

 sion to our list of the PsittacidcB is of much value. 



EuRYSTOMUS COLLARIS. Rubro-brunneus ; genis, corporeque 

 subtHS purpurascentibus ; guld, rectricibusque later alibus ccsruleis ; 

 remigibus, rectricibusque mediis nigris ; his versus apicem, illarumque 

 pogoniis externis azureis ; rostro flavo. 



Magnitudo Eurj/stomi Orientalis. 



Hab. in Africa. In Mus. Soc. Zool. 



Tyrannulus albo-cristatus. Supra plumbeo-griseus ; subtus 

 Jlavescens; guld, fasciis duabus alarum, plumisque verficis in medio 

 albis. 



Magnitudo Sylvice reguli. Lath. 



Hab. in BrasiHa In Mus. Soc. Zool. 



Pyrrhula capistrata. Corpore isabellino ; oapite supra, Cauda, 

 alisque nigris; his specuHs duabus albis. 

 Longitudo corporis, 3f unc. 

 Hab. in Brasilia. In Mus. Soc. Zool. 



Psittacara nana. Viridis; f route, collo anteriorc, pectoreque 

 grisescentibus. 

 Longitudo 8^ unc. 

 Hab. in Insula Jamaica. In Vivario Soc. Zool. 



Platycercus Stanleyii. Supra viridis ; capite supra, corporeque 

 inferior e coccineis ; genis sulphureis ; remigibus, rcclricibusqae mediis 



