179.—Gould's grand Monograph, 180.— Toucans described, 180-182; Food, 183; Habits, 184.—Gould's Toucanet, 187.

ECCENTRICITIES OF PENGUINS.

Penguins on Dassent Island, 188.—Patagonian Penguins, 189.—Falkland Islands, 189.—King Penguins, 190, 191.—Darwin's Account, 192.—Webster's Account, 193.—Swainson's Account, 194.

PELICANS AND CORMORANTS.

Pelicans described by various Naturalists, 195, 196.—The Pelican Island, 197.—Popular Error, 199-200.—Cormorants, and Fishing with Cormorants, 201-204.

TALKING BIRDS, INSTINCTS, ETC.

Sounds by various Birds, 204.—Umbrella Bird, 206.—Bittern, 207.—Butcher-bird and Parrots, 208.—Wild Swan, Laughing Goose, Cuckoo, and Nightingale, 209.—Talking Canaries, 210.—Neighing Snipe, 213.—Trochilos and Crocodiles, 216.—Instinct. Intelligence, and Reason in Birds, 217-219.—Songs of Birds and Seasons of the Day, 219.

OWLS.

Characteristics of the Owl, 221.—Owl in Poetry, 222.—Bischacho or Coquimbo, 224.—Waterton on Owls, 225, 226.—Owls. Varieties of, 227-230.

WEATHER-WISE ANIMALS.

Atmospheric Changes, 231.—Stormy Petrel, 233.—Wild Geese and Ducks, 235.—Frogs and Snails, 237.—The Mole, 240.—List of Animals, by Forster, the Meteorologist, 241.—Weatherproof Nests, 247.—"Signs of Rain," by Darwin, 248.—Shepherd of Banbury, 249.

FISH-TALK.

How Fishes Swim, 250.—Fish Changing Colour, 251.—"Fish Noise," 252.—Hearing of Fish, 253.—The Carp at Fontainebleau, 254, 255.—Affection of Fishes, 256.—Cat-fish, Anecdote of, 257.—Great Number of Fishes, 258.—Little Fishes Eaten by Medusæ, 259.—Migration of Fishes, 261.—Enormous Grampus, 262.—Bonita and Flying-fish, 263.—Jaculator Fish of Java, 264.—Port Royal, Jamaica Fish, 266.—The Shark, 267.—California. Fish of, 268.—Wonderful Fish, 269.—Vast Sun-fish, 271.—Double Fish, 272.—The Square-browed Malthe, 274.—Gold Fish, 275.—The Miller's Thumb, 276.—Sea-fish Observatory, 276.—Herring Question, 278.—Aristotle's History of Animals, 279-280.

FISH IN BRITISH COLOMBIA.

Salmon-swarming, 281.—Candle-fish, 282.—Octopus, the, 283.—Sturgeon and Sturgeon Fishing, 283-287.

THE TREE-CLIMBING CRAB.

Locomotion of Fishes, 288.—Climbing Perch, 288.—Crabs in the West Indies, 289.—Crabs, Varieties of, 289-292.—Robber and Cocoa-nut Crab, 292-301.—Fish of the China Seas, 301.

MUSICAL LIZARDS.

Lizard from Formosa Isle, 303.—Its Habits, 304-306.

CHAMELEONS AND THEIR CHANGES.

The Chameleon described by Aristotle and Calmet, 307, 308.—Change of Colour, 309.—Reproduction of, 310, 311.—Tongue, 311.—Lives in Trees, 312.—Theory of Colours, 313.—The Puzzle Solved, 315.—Mrs. Belzoni's Chameleons, 317.—Lady Cust's Chameleons, 321.—Chameleon's Antipathy to Black, 322.

RUNNING TOADS.

Dr. Husenbeth's Toads at Cossey, 327.—Frog and Toad Concerts, 327.

SONG OF THE CICADA.

Greeks' Love for the Song, 329.—Cicada in British Colombia, 329.—Tennyson and Keats on the Grasshopper, 330.

STORIES ABOUT THE BARNACLE GOOSE.

Baptista Porta's Account, 331.—Max Müller on, 331.—Gerarde's Account, 332.—Giraldus Cambrensis, 332.—Professor Rolleston. Drayton's Poly-olbion, 333.—Sir Kenelm Digby and Sir J. Emerson Tennent, 334.—Finding the Barnacle, 334.

LEAVES ABOUT BOOKWORMS

Bookworms, their Destructiveness, 336, 337.—How to Destroy, 338.—The Death-watch, 339.—Lines by Swift, 340.

BORING MARINE ANIMALS, AND HUMAN ENGINEERS.

Life and Labours of the Pholas, 341.—Family of the Pholas, 342.—Curious Controversy, 343.—Boring Apparatus, 342.—Several Observers, 347, 348.—Boring Annelids, 348.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.