REPTILIA. 
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EEPTILIA 
BY 
Albert Gunther, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., &c. 
A. Separate Publications. 
Jan, G., et Sordelli, F. Iconographie generale des Ophidiens. 
Paris. Plates, 4to. 
We gave descriptions of this work in the ^ Record,^ i. p. 99, 
ii. p. 139, iii. p. 117, iv. p. 126, and v. p. 114. Four parts of 
plates. Nos. 30-33, were published in the year 1869. No eon- 
tinuation of the text.- 
Krefft, G. The Snakes of Australia ; an illustrated and de- 
scriptive Catalogue of all the known species. Sydney, 1869, 
4to, pp. 100, with 12 plates. 
This publication treats of all the species of Snakes known to 
inhabit Australia, about eighty in number. All are described, 
the descriptions being partly reproductions of the original ac- 
counts. In order to facilitate the study of Ophidians, and to 
diffuse their knowledge among naturalists and residents in Aus- 
tralia, the author has added an introduction treating of the 
general characteristics of the order. He has collected every 
thing that is known of the habits of these animals. All the 
species (with one exception) are described elsewhere by the 
author himself or his predecessors. The plates are very credit- 
ably drawn by two ladies. Miss Scott and Mrs. E. Forde. 
Peters, W. C. H. Amphibien gesammelt von Baron C. C. von 
der Decken auf seinen Reisen im aquatorialen Ost-Africa, 
pp. 11-18, with two plates. 
This forms an appendix to von der Decken^s Reisen in Ost- 
Africa.’^ Band 3. Leipzig, 1869, 8vo. A preliminary abstract 
was given by the author in 1866 (see Zool. Record, iii. pp. 11, 
119). 
B . Papers published in Journals. 
Allen, J. A. Catalogue of the Reptiles and Batrachians found 
in the vicinity of Springfield, Mass., with notices of all the 
other species known to inhabit the State. Proc. Bost. Soc. 
Nat. Hist. xii. 1869 (1868), pp. 171-204, 248-250. 
1869. [voL. VI.] i 
