576 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
vegetable soil, on the shelves of precipices in shady places 
on the mountains to the N.E. of Cochabamba. 
“I consider my next remittance of dried plants from this 
country will afford you more pleasure and interest than 
any you have received from me, both as to extent and 
variety, and it also may prove more novel, from the 
few travellers that have yet entered this remote country. 
I have devoted the greater part of the time I have spent 
here to ornithology and entomology. Of birds, I possess at 
least 100 species ; many of them were made known to Europe, . 
only by the labours of that eminent traveller, D’Orbigny. 
The following birds discovered by him, I have found in the 
valleys of Chuquisaca and Cochabamba; (the names extracted 
from his work); viz: Troglodytes fulvus, Saltator auranti- 
rostris, Hirundinea bellicosa, Adacyani rostris, A. nigerrima, 
Pytilus aureo-ventris, Cypselus Andicolus, Emberiza luteoce- 
phala, E. hypochondria, E. griseo-cristata, E. atriceps, Linaria 
analis, Carduelis atratus, Icterus maxillaris, Uppucerthia 
Andicola and montana, Phytotoma angustirostris, Synallaxis 
humicola, S. fuliginiceps ? S. striaticeps, S. torquata, Orpheus 
dorsalis, Turdus fusco-ater, T. Chiguanco, Phalcolenus mon- 
fanus, Picus atriventris, P. cactorum, Colaptes rupicola, 
Culicivora reguloides, Setophaga brunniceps? Serrirostrum 
carbonarium, S. psittoides, and Anthus furcatus. In Entomo- 
logy, I have been no less fortunate; but hitherto I have 
directed my attention almost alone to Coleoptera, and have 
captured several species of Nyctalius and Phancus, also 
a considerable number of species belonging to other genera. 
* [n three days from this date, I intend to leave Cocha- 
bamba, and proceed to the eastward into the provinces of 
Moxos, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, crossing an enormous 
ridge of mountains to the N.E. of this place, and afterwards 
fall into the tropical forests. In about eight days journey, 
I shall reach the river Mamoré, and on that river I purpose 
going to Trinidad, the capital of the province of Moxos, 
where I may station myself for one or two months, and 
it is not improbable I may reach the frontiers of Brazils. 
