376 , THE ZOOLOGIST. 
In regard to classification, Mr. Sclater considers the Cerebide 
to be nearly allied to the T'anagride, and indeed it is somewhat 
difficult to separate them by external characters. They appear, 
he says, to perform the same functions in Nature in the Neo- 
tropical Region as the Nectariniide and Diceide in the tropics 
of the Old World. The Tanagride also are very closely allied 
to the Fringillide, and are in fact fruit- and insect-eating finches. 
They come in very naturally, he considers, between the 
Mniotiltide and Cerebide on the one side, and the Fringillide on 
the other. But whether the Icteride should immediately follow 
the Tanagride in a natural series, is perhaps open to question. 
They present many points of resemblance to the Stwrnide, and 
it might be better therefore to place them after Fringillide, and 
in the immediate neighbourhood of the former family. Mr. 
Sclater, however, has deemed it advisable to follow Mr. Wallace’s 
arrangement of the Oscines, which has been adopted in this part 
of the Museum Catalogue. 
The eighteen coloured plates (drawn by Smit and litho- 
graphed by Mintern Brothers) will show to the uninitiated what 
very beautifully plumaged birds are included amongst the 
families comprised in this volume. Of the species figured the 
following are unique:— Chlorophanes purpurascens (pl. iv.), 
Chlorophonia flavirostris (pl. vi.), Huphonia vittata (pl. x.), and 
Arremon wucherert (pl. xvii), while several others, such as 
Buarremon leucopis (pl. xiv.), B. comptus (pl. xv.), and Icterus 
hauawelli (pl. xviii.), have been figured from the type specimens 
in the British Museum Collection, the last-named having been 
described for the first time by Mr. Sclater only last year (Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 671). Among the very few typographical 
errors which we have noticed in this volume, we may point out 
a want of correspondence in the specific name of a Certhiola 
described on p. 46, and figured on plate v., a trifling mistake 
which is easily corrected. 
Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum. Second Edition. 
By G. A. Bounencer. Vol. Il. 8vo, pp. 492, with 24 
plates. Printed by order of the Trustees. 1885. 
WHEN reviewing the first volume of this new edition of the 
Catalogue of Lizards (‘ Zoologist,’ 1885, p. 196), we did not 
