Hei-petologia Mexicana. 401 



ant bird in the work, on account of its being given as altogether new, 

 is Turdus Whliei. It is difficult to give a decided opinion without 

 having seen the specimen, but we think it will prove ultimately to 

 be a missel-thrush in immature or in some variety of plumage. 

 Turdus varius may be known in all its states by the deep velvety 

 black of the axillary feathers.* 



Herpetologia Mexicana sen Descriplio ampkibiorum Nova; His- 

 panics quce itineribus Comilis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe el Ch. 

 Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pcrvenerunt. 

 Pars prima, Saurorum Species amplectens, adjeclo systematic Sau- 

 rorum prodromo, addilisque mullis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem 

 observationibus. Edidit Dr Arend. Friedekicus Augustus 

 Wiegmann. Accedunl Tabulaz Lithographicce Decern, novorum 

 generum typos exhibentes. — Berolini, 1836. 



It is quite unnecessary to say more, than that the execution of 

 the work fully justifies this ample title. The genera in the table 

 are carefully characterized, and the plan is convenient and easily 

 understood, though not so natural in the arrangement of the groups 

 as might be. 



The descriptions of the species are full, the plates very accurate, 

 and beautifully coloured.. 



The work contains the following new genera : Dracunculus for 

 some species of Draco Chamceleopsis, which scarcely differs from 

 Corythophanes of Boie. Lcemanctus, very like Polychrus, but with- 

 out any pores, and differing in the comparative length of the toes. 

 Strombilurus, like Tropedurus, but with a keeled back, and larger 

 keeled scales. Plaiydactylus, with slender toes, only dilated at the 

 end. 



The plates represent the genera Heloderma, Lcemanctus, Cory- 

 thceolus, Chamceleopsis , Sceloporus, Phrynosoma, Genhonoiiis. 



It may be remarked, that Phyllurus is rather a sub-genus of Go- 

 niodaclylus than of Gunynodaclylus , as its toes are compressed and 

 arched, like the typical species of that genus. — J. E. G*. 



British Fungi, consisting of dried Specimens of the Species de- 

 scribed in Vol. V. Part 1 1, of the English Flora ; together with such 

 as may hereafter be discovered indigenous to Britain. By the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A. Lond. 1836. 4to. Fasc i., ii. 

 This work has nothing to recommend it but its utility ; it is nei- 



* The loan of this bird, for a figure in the new series of" Ornithological Illus- 

 trations," will be esteemed a favour. 



