274- Mr. W. A. Forbes on the 



deresi (white- water valley). The country is covered with 

 copses ; and numerous Circassian villages are scattered about. 

 Cirl Buntings and Rosy Finches {Carpodacus erythrinus) 

 were for the first time met with^ and a good many birds of 

 prey seen. 



On the descent to the Black Sea, which occupied two days 

 more, our road lay through large forests, principally composed 

 of beech and oak, with an undergrowth of the golden-flowered 

 Azalea jiontica. Samsoun was reached on May 22ncl. Our 

 intention had been to stop here and collect ; but finding that 

 little or nothing was to be done in that way, we left for 

 Constantinople by the first steamer. 



Before passing to the next part of this paper we must ac- 

 knowledge the hospitality and courtesy received from all 

 races and classes, especially from the mountain-tribes of Turks 

 and Yorouks, among whom most of our time Avas passed. 

 Nothing could exceed the unvarying kindness of Mr. Tat- 

 tarachi, H.B.M. Vice-Consul at Mersina, to whom we take 

 this opportunity of tendering our most hearty thanks, as also 

 to Mr. Dresser and to Mr. Baker of Kew, for the aid tliey 

 have rendered us in naming our birds and plants. We would 

 further beg leave to recommend to the ornithological world 

 our assistant, Mr. William Pearse, of Haskeui, Constanti- 

 nople, who accompanied us, and to whose diligence and. care 

 the good preservation of our collection is entirely due. 

 [To be continued.] 



XXIII. — Recent Observations on the Parrots of the Germs 

 Eclectus. By W. A. Forbes, F.Z.S. 



The large red and green Parrots forming the genus Eclectus 

 of Wagler have long been well known to naturalists, who 

 have, until recently, entertained no sort of doubt that the 

 red species were perfectly distinct from the green ones. So 

 much was this the case, that a subgenus, denominated Poly- 

 chlorus in 1857 by Sclater*, has been formed for the reception 

 of the green species, the red ones being retained under Eclectus 

 « P. Z. S. 1857, p. 22G. 



