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for Mr. Sabine Baring- Gould to exclaim with the Prince of Morocco, 

 " Farewell heat, and welcome frost." The magnificently illustrated 

 volume on Iceland, its Scenes and Sagas, without doubt deserves 

 a brief mention in these pages ; for the author, in addition to his 

 accomplishments as a classical and an Icelandic scholar, shows that 

 he has a very fair knowledge of natural history. Indeed, if we are 

 not greatly mistaken, the book before us contains more information 

 on the zoology of Iceland than has ever hitherto been given by any 

 of our fellow-countrymen, and, with regard to the botany, more than 

 has been published in the English language since Sir "William Hooker, 

 some fifty years ago, brought out his ' Journal.' Mr. Baring-Gould 

 narrates his adventures in a very agreeable manner, interspersing 

 them with fragments of Sagas, most of which will be new to the 

 British public, and, what is more to our purpose, with notices of the 

 natural history of the island. To these are added certain appendices 

 — one, on Icelandic Ornithology, contributed by Mr. Alfred Newton, 

 and another, by the author himself, giving a list of Icelandic Plants. 

 The former seems to have been drawn up with some care, though at 

 least one species. Ibis falcinellus, recorded so long ago as 1836, and 

 by so distinguished an authority as the late Professor Reinhardt 

 (Vidensk. Selsk. Afh. vii. p. 96), has escaped attention. Altogether 

 we feel sure that our readers will derive a large amount of amusement 

 and interest from the perusal of this work, and we have much plea- 

 sure in recommending it to their notice generally, but more especially 

 to any intending visitor to Iceland. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Jan. 27, 1863.— G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Contribution to the Herpetology of Ceram. 

 By Dr. A. Gunther. 



We are indebted for our knowledge of the reptiles of Ceram to 

 Dr. P. V. Bleeker, who, in a paper, " Over de Reptilien-Fauna van 

 Ceram"*, enumerates thirty-eight species collected at Wahaai, on 

 the northern coast of that island, and at Paulohi on the southern 

 coast. 



Having received a small collection of these animals from North 

 Ceram, I am enabled to add the following species : — Tiliqua rufes- 

 cens ; Cyclodtis carinatus, n. sp. ; Coluber holochrous, n. sp. ; For- 

 donia unicolor. Gray ; Cerberus acutus. Gray ; and Diemennia Miil- 

 leri, Schleg. However, it is probable that three of these species are 

 comprised in Bleeker' s list, but under different names, viz., Cyclo- 

 dus carinatus, mihi, as C. Boddaertii, D. & B. ; Fordonia unicolor. 

 Gray, as Eurostus plumbeus, D. & B, ; and Cerberus acutus. Gray, 

 as Cerb. boceformis, D. & B. Therefore, taking the number of 

 Ceramese reptiles known as forty-one, we find that thirty-five of 

 * Nat. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. 1860. 



