6 Conclusions

Colour-Magnitude Diagrams for the globular clusters Terzan 3 and IC 1276 are presented for the first time.

Both clusters are considerably reddened with E(B-V) = 0.72 (Terzan 3) and 1.16 (IC 1276), and they are metal-rich with [Fe/H] $\approx -0.7$, like 47 Tuc.

Although their angular location with respect to the Galactic center is relatively large, they are nearby clusters, in particular Terzan 3 is not far away in the halo as given in early estimations. The clusters are on our side of the Galaxy at distances from the Galactic center of $R_{\rm G}$ $\approx$ 2.7 and 4.3 kpc, respectively.

Given all these characteristics they appear to be members of the bulge family of metal-rich globular clusters.

In Armandroff (1989), a list of 19 bona fide metal-rich globular clusters in the bulge was presented. Recently, Barbuy et al. (1998) have analysed the clusters in a radius of 5$^\circ$ from the Galactic center, where several additional clusters relative to the Armandroff (1989) study were added: Terzan 1, Terzan 2, Terzan 5, Terzan 6, Palomar 6, Liller 1, Djorgovski 1 and ESO456-SC38. Besides, in the recent years we presented CMDs for other metal-rich clusters around the 5$^\circ$ part of the bulge: Tonantzintla 2 (Bica et al. 1996), NGC 6380 and Terzan 12 (Ortolani et al. 1998). Together with Terzan 3 and IC 1276, 13 clusters are added to the previous list available in Armadroff (1989).

Acknowledgements

BB and EB acknowledge partial financial support from CNPq and Fapesp.