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abstruse walks of science, systematical or philosophical. It is of a good augury 

 Tor the progress of Natural History at home, that the study of the German lan- 

 guage, so cognate to and illustrative of the more mixed but not less copious 

 English, has become of late so popular a branch of general education. And the 

 lover of Natural History, yet guiltless even of that philological excursion, if he 

 will lay out five shillings on a German Accidence and Vocabulary, and can spare 

 the time requisite, with such a moderate degree of application as may qualify 

 him to glean instruction and improvement from a scientific book in the language, 

 will find bis pains amply repaid by the Ornithological matter of this journal. 

 We can heartily recommend the same to all British Ornithologists, who are not 

 acquainted with it already. The London publishers of the Naumannia are 

 Williams and Norgate, and the annual subscription twelve shillings. 



Wiegmann's Archiv fuerNaturgesceiichte u. s. w. Wiegm ann's Archives 

 of Natural History ; continued by Troschel. 8vo. Berlin. 

 Vol. XXI. A. D. 1855, 1856. 

 Part I. Original Communications. (Philippi) On some birds of Chili ; in a 

 letter to the Editor — p. 9-14. Including the notice of a new Flamingo, Phceni- 

 copterus andinus, native name a Parrina," from the great salt marsh in the desert 

 of Atacama. (Dursy) Contributions to the Natural History of the Snakes of 

 Germany — p. 283-297. (Peters) Synopsis of the Amphibia collected on his 

 travels— p. 43 57. Ninety species are enumerated, of which there are given as 

 new, Platydactyluspunctatus; Hemidactylus platycephalus ; Diplodactylus pictus ; 

 Hoplurus barnardi; Chalarodon n. g., distinguished from Enyalns by the subde- 

 pressed body, the scales of the head larger, on the rostrum longitudinal and cari- 

 nated, the neck with deep transverse folds, hypodactyle scales keeled, C. madagas- 

 cariensis n. sp. ; Agama mossambica, armata ; Ichnotropis n. g., allied to Tropi- 

 dosaurus, but the hypodactylia carinated, and the nostrils placed between three 

 scutels, S. squamulosa, macrolepidota n. sp. ; Tracheloptychus n. g., placed be- 

 tween Ptychopleurus and Lacerta, T. madagascariensis ; Gerrhosaurus robustus ; 

 Euprepes margaritifer, depressus, lacertiformis, komorensis, elegans; Eumeres 

 afer; Herpetosaura n. g. of Apod Scinci, H. arenicola; Acontias niger ; Typhline 

 aurautiaca ; Amphisbaeaa violacea;— Ophidians, Onychocephalus dinga, mucruso, 

 mossambicus, trilobus; Stenostoma longicaudum, scutifrons; Homalosoma varie- 

 gatum ; Lycophidium semiannulis ; Coronella semiornata, Olivacea ; Uriechis u. 

 g., U. nigriceps (Elapomorphus capensis Smith?), lunulatus ; RhamphiopJus 

 n. g., K. rostratus ; Naja mossambica; Vipera superciliaris ; — Amphibians, Kana 

 mossambica ; Cystignathus argyreivittis ; Pyxicephalus edulis, marmoratus ; Chii o- 

 mantis n. g., C. xerampelina; Hyperolius bvittatus, taeniatus, marginatus, argus, 

 flavoviridis, tettensis ; Engystoma mavmoratum ; Breviceps mossambicus. 

 (Same) Synopsis of the Fishes observed in Mozambique— p. 234-282. The new 

 species are — Serranus flaveguttatus, melas, squamipinnis, abdominalis, goliath ; 

 Platycephalus pristis ; Scorpaeaa mossambica ; Apistus binotatus ; Coruna dor- 

 salis ; Sargus auriventris ; Atherina atra ; (Jhsetodon nigripinnis ; Peloscirtes 

 cynodon, barbatus, elongatus ; Gobius obscurus, capistratus, signatus, atherinoi- 

 des ; Callionymus marmoratus ; Amphysile brevispina ; Fierasfer neglectum ; 

 Cossyphus opercularis, faeniops, filamentosus; Pomacentrusannulatus; Glyphiso- 

 don fallax, sculptus ; Muraeua fascigula, vermicularis, diplodon ; O^hiurus mar- 

 ginatus ; Sphagebranchus brevirostris ; Tetrodon ocellatus, taeniatus ; Monacan- 

 thus frenatus; Syngnathus mossambicus; Torpedo fusco-maculata. (Gunther) 

 Contributions to the Natural History of the Freshwater Fishes of Germany ; with 

 figures — p. 197-212. (Kaup) On the Synonymy of Symbranchus immaculatus 

 Bloch — p. 58-61. (Same) Enchelynassa, a new genus of the family of eels, 

 with figure — p. 213. (Same) Synopsis of the species of some families of Sclero- 

 dermi — p. 215 233. (Agassiz) Supplementary remarks on the Holconoti ; ex- 

 tracted from Silhman's American Journal of Science, XVII. ; translated by the 

 Editor— p. 30-34. (Gibbons! Description of new fishes of the family Holco-. 

 noti, from the Bay of San 'Francisco, the Sacramento river, and its Lagoons— 



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