In the collection of Birds before alluded to, formed by the late Mr. John Morgan at Real del Monte, was a single skin of this new and elegant species. The snowy whiteness of its throat, renders it not liable to be mistaken in a group of birds, presenting in general a great similarity of plumage. The upper parts are greyish brown, varied with obscure, dusky, broken lines of blackish; each feather being tipt with a small round white spot: wing covers and tertials the same: upper and under tail covers ferruginous; each feather with a white spot before the white one which is at the tip, lower breast and all the under plumage rufous brown, crossed by black lines; the white dots nearly obsolete, tail ferruginous, with about six black bars: legs brown, hind claw as long as the tarsus. Fourth and fifth quill longest. This genus has been judiciously separated by M. Vieillot from _Troglodytes_ (to which belongs our Brown European Wren), on account of its lengthened and generally notched bill: the greater prolongation of the hind toe is a further distinction; indicating an affinity with the more perfect scansorial Creepers. To this group belongs the _Myothera obsoleta_ of Prince Charles Bonaparte. No example of that genus, or of _Thamnophilus_ (in their most extended sense), has yet been found north of Cuba: their straight, cylindrical, and abruptly-hooked bills, offer a striking contrast to the lengthened, compressed, curved, and consequently feeble structure of this part in _Thriothorus_ and _Troglodytes_. Total length, 5½; bill, 1-1/10; wings, and tail, 2-6/10 tarsi, 7/10. * * * * * * [Illustration: _Ceram Lory_] LORIUS garrulus. _Ceram Lory._ ---- Family Psittacidæ. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill moderate, compressed, end of the upper mandible, within, entirely smooth; under mandible lengthened, conic; the tip entire. Legs stout; Tail moderate, rounded or graduated; the feathers broad, their tips obtuse. _Nob._ ---- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _Scarlet: wings green, shoulders yellow, half of the tail bluish black._ Psittacus garrulus. _Lin. 144. Kuhl. Cons. Psit. p. 41. No. 56._ Le Lori-Noira. _Buffon. Sonn. 27. p. 126. Pl. Enl. 216._ Le Perroquet Lori Nouara. _Levail. 2. pl. 96._ Scarlet Lory. _Edw. pl. 172._ Le Lory de Ceram. _Briss. Orn. 4. 215._ ---- The popular name of Lories has long been given to those Parrots, peculiar to the continent and islands of India, whose brilliant red plumage forms a strong contrast to the green colour which generally pervades this family. The southern limits of their distribution do not extend to Australia, but much of their general structure is transferred to the Lory-Parrakeets, forming the modern genus _Trichoglossus_; this latter group being diffused over the remaining islands of the great Pacific Ocean.