The Monkey tribe rarely mentioned in Scripture--Why the Ape was introduced into Palestine--Solomon's ships, and their cargo of Apes, peacocks, ivory, and gold--Various species of Monkey that might have been imported--The Rhesus Monkey--The Hoonuman, or Entellus--Habits of the Monkey, and reverence in which it is held by the natives--The Egyptians and their Baboon worship--Idols and memorials--The Wanderoo--Its singular aspect--Reasons why it should be introduced into Palestine--General habits of the Wanderoo--Its love of curiosities--Probability that Solomon had a menagerie--Various species of Monkey that may be included in the term _Kophim_--The Satyr of Scripture--Babylon in its glory and fall--Fulfilment of prophecy--Judaic ideas of the Satyrs, or Seirim 1 THE BAT. The Bat mentioned always with abhorrence--Meaning of the Hebrew name--The prohibition against eating Bats--The edible species, their food and mode of life--The noisome character of the Bat, and the nature of its dwelling-place--Its hatred of light--Baruch and his prophecy--Appropriateness of the prophecy--Singular Mahommedan legend respecting the original creation of the Bat--The legend compared with the apocryphal gospels--The Bats of Palestine--Mr. Tristram's discoveries--Bats found in the quarries from which the stone of the Temple was hewn--Edible Bats in a cave near the centre of Palestine--Another species of long-tailed Bat captured in the rock caves where hermits had been buried--Other species which probably inhabit Palestine 11 THE LION. Frequent mention of the Lion in the Scriptures--Probability that it was once a common animal, though now extinct--Reasons for its disappearance--The Lion employed as an emblem in the Bible--Similarity of the African and Asiatic species--The chief characteristics of the Lion--Its strength, activity, and mode of seizing its prey--Various names of the Lion--Its courage when roused--Its roar, and peculiar mode of utterance--Invisibility of the Lion at dusk--The Lion lying in wait--The dwelling-place of the Lion--Its restlessness at night--Passages illustrative of these characteristics--Modes of capturing the Lion--The pitfall and the net--Lions kept as curiosities--The Lion-hunt as depicted on the buildings of ancient Nineveh 18 THE LEOPARD. The Leopard not often mentioned in the Scriptures--Its attributes exactly described--Probability that several animals were classed under the name--How the Leopard takes its prey--Craft of the Leopard--Its ravages among the flocks--The empire of man over the beast--The Leopard at bay--Localities wherein the Leopard lives--The skin of the Leopard--Various passages of Scripture explained 29 THE CAT.