BLACK AND YELLOW ORIOLE. 
Though Marcgrave's descriptions are better 
'than others of his time, his figures are so 
small, and ill-drawn, that they give no tole-= 
rable idea of the subjects he means to express. 
I owe this improved draught to the Honourable 
Capt. Washington Shirley, now Earl of Fer- 
rers; who took, in a French prize homeward 
bound from South-America, one of the largest 
parcels of rare and beautiful birds of that 
country that I ever saw; all of them most 
cleanly and curiously preserved, and stuffed 
with cotton; and said to be designed as a pre- 
s.ent to Madame Pompadour. I am sorry aay 
: beautiful lady should be disappointed in so rea- 
I sonable an amusement, though I was over- 
joyed to see the prize safe in London, which 
served almost to create this last publication of 
^ my works ; in the course of which, I shall have 
frequent occasion to mention the name of the 
Right Honourable the Earl of Ferrers, whose 
fortune in meeting with the above prize proved 
equally lucky to me. 
Mr. Brisson, in his New Ornithologyj 
has given a good figure of this bird, as large 
, as life 5 which be calls^ Cassique Jaune. He 
I ... says, 
