Virgil's Harpies, 85.--Pliny on the Bat, 85.--Rere-mouse and Flitter-mouse, 86.--Bats, not Birds but Quadrupeds, 87.--Sir Charles Bell on the Wing of the Bat, 87.--Vampire Bat from Sumatra, 88.--Lord Byron and Vampire, 89.--Levant Superstition, 89.--Bat described by Heber, Waterton, and Steadman, 90.--Lesson on Bats, 91.--Bat Fowling or Folding, 91, 92.--Sowerby's Long-eared Bat, 92, 96.--Wing of the Bat, 96.--_Nycteris_ Bat, 97.--_Kalong_ Bat of Java, 98.--Bats, various, 100, 101. THE HEDGEHOG. Hedgehog Described, 102.--Habits, 103.--Eating Snakes, 105.--Poisons, 105, 106.--Battle with a Viper, 105.--Economy of the Hedgehog, 106, 107. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS IN ENGLAND. Living Hippopotamus brought to England in 1850, 108.--Capture and Conveyance, 111.--Professor Owen's Account, 111-115.--Described by Naturalists and Travellers, 115-118.--Utility to Man, 118-119.--Ancient History, 119.--In Scripture, 120.--Alleged Disappearance, 121.--Fossil, 122. LION-TALK. Character, 123.--Reputed Generosity, 125.--Burchell's Account, 125.--Lion-Tree in the Mantatee Country, 127.--Lion-hunting, 128.--Disappearance of Lions, 130, 131.--Human Prey, 132.--Maneless Lions of Guzerat, 134.--A Lion Family in Bengal, 135, 136.--Prickle on the Lion's Tail, 137-139.--Nineveh Lions, 139.--Lions in the Tower of London, 140, 141.--Feats with Lions, 142.--Lion-hunting in Algeria, by Jules Gerard, 144.--The Prudhoe Lions, 144. BIRD-LIFE. Rate at which Birds fly, 145, 146.--Air in the Bones of Birds, 146.--Flight of the Humming-bird, 147.--Colour of Birds, 148.--Song of Birds, 149.--Beauty in Animals, 150.--Insectivorous Birds, 151.--Sea-fowl Slaughter, 152.--Hooded Crow in Zetland, 154.--Brain of Birds, 154.--Danger-signals, 155.--Addison's Love of Nature, 156, 157. BIRDS' EGGS AND NESTS. Colours of Eggs, 158.--Bird's-nesting, 159.--Mr. Wolley, the Ornithologist, 159, 160.--European Birds of Prey, 161.--Large Eggs, 162, 163, 164.--Baya's Nest, 164.--Oriole and Tailor-bird, 165, 166.--Australian Bower-bird, 167.--Cape Swallows, 168.--"Bird Confinement," by Dr. Livingstone. THE EPICURE'S ORTOLAN. Origin of the Ortolan, 172; described, 173, 174; Fattening process, 175, 176.--Prodigal Epicurism, 177, 178. TALK ABOUT TOUCANS. Toucan family, 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.