278 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
work, however, from a zoological point of view, will be found in 
an Appendix to the second volume (pp. 506—617), wherein, 
through the co-operation of certain well-known specialists whose 
aid he has been fortunate in obtaining, Dr. Lansdell has been 
enabled to give systematic lists of the animals, both vertebrate 
and invertebrate, which have been ascertained to occur in the 
country through which he travelled. Thus the lists of Mam- 
malia, Aves, Reptilia, and Amphibia are vouched for by Messrs. 
Severtsoff, Fedchenko, and Sabanaeff; Herr Kessler supplies an 
account of the Fishes; the Mollusca are dealt with by Dr. von 
Martens, and the Crustacea by Dr. Ulianin; while the different 
orders of Insects are reviewed by such well-known entomologists 
as Messrs. Solsky, De Saussure, Gustav Mayr, Erschoff, and 
Alpheraky. 
Thus it will be seen that Dr. Lansdell has spared no pains to 
make his work as complete as possible, even in regard to matters 
on which he does not profess to have any special knowledge; and 
should it be urged that in regard to Zoology he has not given us 
anything very original or very new, he must at least have the 
credit of having brought together within a comparatively limited 
space a good deal of useful information about a little-known part 
of the world, which could otherwise be only acquired by reference 
to a great many different works in different languages. 
A History of British Birds. By Wrtt1am Yarrett. Fourth 
Edition. By Atrrep Newron, M.A., F.R.S., and Howarp 
Saunpers, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 4 vols. 8vo. London: Van 
Voorst, 1885. 
Tur Editors of the new edition of this standard work, as 
well as that portion of the reading public for whose use and 
benefit it is intended, are alike to be congratulated upon its 
recent completion. The last part (part xxx.) has at length 
appeared, with index, preface, and title-pages, and the four 
volumes may be now bound and put upon the book-shelf as the 
leading text-book on British Ornithology. 
To attempt anything like a general criticism of the whole 
work would occupy many more pages than could be here afforded, 
and we must therefore abandon any such idea. Not that we 
