I’liySIOLOGICAX, ANATOMICAL^ AND QRNEKAL, FAUNA'l. llept. 3 
Schwalbe, G. Das Ganglion oculoniotorii, ein Beitrag zur vergleichen- 
den Anatomio der Kopfnerven. Jen. Z. Nat. xiii. pp. 173-268, 
pis. xii.-xiv. 
The descriptive part relating to Reptiles, pp. 196-208. 
Scott, W., & Osboun, H. On some points of the Early Development 
of the common Newt. Q. J. Micr. Sci. (n. s.) xix. pp. 449-472, 
pis. XX. & xxi. 
Stohr, P. Znr Entwicklungsgeschichte des Urodelenschadels. Z. wiss. 
Zool. xxxiii. pp. 477-626, pis. xxix. & xxx. ; and Zool. Anz. ii. pp. 
156 & 167. 
Todaro, F. Sulla struttura intima della pelle de’ Rettili. Atti Acc. 
Line. (3) ii. (Memorie) pp 1073-1128, 5 pis. 
A. S. Packard, Jun., in his “Zoology for Students and General 
Readers” (New York : 1879, cr. 8vo), describes and figures the anatomy 
of Rana helicina^ pp. 470-475, fig. 433 t Sccloporus undulatus^ pp. 493 & 
494, fig. 440 ; Eutcenia sirtalis, p. 498, fig. 441 ; and Chrysemys picta, 
pp. 506-50^), figs. 445-447. 
F. Knauer publishes rerriarks on the periodical sloughing of the skin 
in Reptiles and Batrachians, giving a table of its approximate dates and 
duration, as observed by himself in a number of different species during 
many years. Zool. Anz. ii. pp. 496-499. 
The same author contributes a short paper on the colouring of Reptiles 
in its relation to the sexual instinct ; 1. c. pp. 253-255. Also on colour 
as a means of protection in European Reptiles ; L c. pp. 84-86. 
R. Pirotte notices some cases of albinism in Reptiles ; Atti Soc. Ital. 
xxi. pp. 448-451. 
Albinism in Tadpoles; see Batrachia, Lataste, infra, p. 15. 
FAUN^. 
Norway. 
Notices of the Norwegian indigenous Reptiles ; R. Collett, Yid. Selsk. 
Chr. (1878) 1879, No. 3, 12 pp. 
Western Asia. 
J. V. Bedriaga has compiled a very extensive Catalogue of the Rep- 
tilian fauna of Western Highland Asia. Bull. Mosc. liv. pt. 2, pp. 22-52. 
Caucasus. 
The zoological portion of Kessler’s Voyage, published in Ges. Natnrf. 
St. Petersburg, viii., is unfortunately, like the rest of the work, entirely 
in Russian. The Reptilia begin at p. 143. Among the Lacertidee two 
species are described as new. 
See also Schreiber, on Reptilia snd Amphibia, in Schneider’s “Natur- 
wissenschaftliche Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Kaukasuslander” [Dresden: 
1878], pp. 94-96. 
