Scientific Travellers. 239 Total length, 18 inches ; bill, 4i ; wing, 5f ; tail, 7 ; tarsi, I|. Hab. The Cordillerian Andes. Nearly allied to Pteroglossus [Aulacorhynchus) htsmatopy-gus, from Avhich and from all other members of this section of its family it differs in its much lara;er size. XXX. — Information respecting Scientific Travellers. Mr. E. Forbes. We have letters from our friend E. Forbes, Esq., dated from the coast of Lycia in February last. In consequence of the Beacon having remained on that coast for the purpose of procuring the anti-quities discovered by Mr. Fellows at Xanthus, Mr. Forbes had given up his intention of wintering on the Red Sea, and was thus enabled to pursue his researches in the Archipelago and Asia Minor in the fullest and most satisfactory manner. At the date of his letters he was about to make an excursion into the interior of Lycia and Pam-phylia in company with Lieut. Spratt and the Rev. E. Daniell, whose united labours will doubtless throw much new light on the geography, antiquities and natural history of that little known region. After this tour they were to make a detailed survey of Rhodes, and then to join the Beacon on the coast of Crete, where she will spend the summer. Mr. Forbes's observations on the win-ter vegetation of Lycia are given below at page 25 1 . In a letter to us, dated Xanthus, Asia Minor, February 28, 1842, he thus writes : — " My work has been entirely among the Cyclades and on the south-west coast of Asia Minor. During the summer I made the circuit of the islands, a tour of very great interest, which enabled me to use the dredge with much effect, dredging in a very great number of localities and on as many sorts of sea-bottom as possible. I have since conducted aline of dredgings across the Archipelago and down the coast of Lycia, and have succeeded in obtaining the inha-bitants of depths hitherto unexplored, even from 100 to 220 fathoms. The ground at those depths is very uniform, and there is a deposit of w^hite sediment, probably of great thickness, extending throughout the eastern Mediterranean, the animals living on which do not vary in localities 800 miles apart. At a depth of 200 fathoms I have found mollusca of the genera Tellina, Corhula and Area alive, Annelides al-lied to &'er/jM/«, several Crustacea and Starfishes of the genus Ophio-coma. Zoophytes are found in nearly as great a depth. The mud from above 200 fathoms is full of the shells of Pteropoda and other floaters. Of fi.shes I have taken a little Goby frequently in depths between GO and 100 fathoms. The distribution of fishes here is as uniform as that of the lower animals, the same species turning up on the south coast of the Morea as in that of Rhodes. I have made drawings of about a hundred species with a view to exhibit their colouring when alive or fresh taken ; of the greater number of these I have either skins or specimens in spirits. My inquiries for fresh-
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