1892. 



SOME NEW BOOKS. 



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instead of being associated with the Scinks ; and adaptations to the 

 different modes of hfe are considered as subordinate in classifying 

 the Chelonians and Batrachians. The characters of all families (with 

 but a few exceptions) and higher groups are given ; and the maps, 

 showing the geograpliical distributions of the various groups, will 

 prove most useful, drawn up as they are by so competent an 

 authority as Dr. Boettger from the latest data available. 



Fig. 2.—Ccratobatrachus guentheri, the horned frog of the Solomon Islands, discovered by 



Dr. H. B. Guppy. 



A large number of new figures, mostly from the skilled pencil of 

 Miitzel (two of which we are able to reproduce through the courtesy 

 of the pubhshers), have been added, some to replace less satisfactory 

 ones in the previous edition, others to represent little-known or newly- 

 discovered forms. Among- the new figures, we notice excellent repre- 

 sentations oi Anguis fyagilis, Rana arvalis, and other German species, 

 all of which are now figured in the '* Tierleben." A few of these 



