PREFACE. 



The manuscript of this second volume of the ' Catalogue of Lizards ' 

 was so far advanced at the time of publication of the first, that it 

 has been possible to issue both in the same year. 



The present volume contains an account chiefly of Lizards of the 

 New World; and among the contributions to our collection, the 

 donations made by Messrs, Salvin and Godman and by the U.S. 

 National Museum are the most extensive and important. 



Our best thanks for communications and the loan of specimens 

 are due to Dr. Strauch, Director of the Museum of the Imperial 

 Academy of St. Petersburg, Professor Vaillant, of the Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Dr. Boettger, of the Senckenberg 

 Museum, and M. Lataste. 



ALBERT GUNTHER, 



Keeper of the Department of Zoology. 

 British Museum, N. H., 

 November 15, 1885. 



