Mermaid, Japanese, 44 Mermaid, Scottish, 36, 38 Mermaids and Sirens, 33 Mermaid's Song, Haydn's, 34 Mermaids, Stories of, 33 Mermaid, Structure of, 43 Mermaids in Suffolk, 48 Mole, its Economy controverted, 62 Mole, the Ettrick Shepherd on, 71 Mole, Le Court on, 62, 65 Mole and Fairy Rings, 64 Mole and Farming, 70 Mole, Feeling of, 64 Mole at Home, 62 Mole, its Hunting-ground, 67 Moles, Loves of the, 68 Mole, structure of the, 63 Mole, St. Hilaire on, 69 Mole, Shrew, of North America, 70 Mole, Voracity of, 68 Montezuma's Zoological Gardens, 13 Musical Lizard, 303: Climbing Walls, 303, 304; Formosa Isle, 303; Gecko ennobled, 306 ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 15 Ortolan described, 172, 173 Ortolans, how fattened, 174 Ortolan, Mr. Gould on, 174, 175 Owls, 221: Abyssinian Owl, 230; Barn Owl, 226; Bischaco, or Coquimbo, 224; Boobook Owl, 228; Cats and Owls, 230; Fraser's Eagle Owl, from Fernando Po, 229; Food of Owls, 226; Javanese Owl, 228; Snowy Owl, 227; Tricks by Night, 224; Utility of, 225; Waterton on the Owl, 225 PELICANS and Cormorants, 195 Pelicans described by Gould, 195 Pelican in Japan, 197 Pelican Popular Error, 198, 199 Pelican Pouches, 198 Pelican Symbol, 200 "Pelican of the wilderness," 197 Pholas, Life and Labours of, 341 Pholades, Charlesworth and Peach on, 347 Pholades, Harper on, 346 Pholades, Robertson on, 343 RHINOCEROS in England, 22: African Rhinoceros in 1858, 27; Ancient History, 23; Bruce and Sparmann, 27; Burchell's shooting, 30; Horn of the Rhinoceros, 31, 32; Indian Wild Ass, 24; One-horned and Two-horned, 23-26; Scripture, Rhinoceros of, 23; Speehnan's Rhinoceros Shooting, 30; Tegetmeir describes the African Rhinoceros, 27; Tractability, 25; Varieties of Rhinoceros, 22; Zoological Society's Rhinoceros, 23, 29 SALE of Wild Animals, 20 Sentinel Birds, 183 Song of the Cicada, 329 Songs of Birds and Seasons of the Day, 219 St. James's Park Menagerie, 14 Stories of the Barnacle Goose, 331-335 Stories of Mermaids, 33 Surrey Zoological Gardens, 20 TALKING birds, 205: Bittern and Night Raven, 207; Blue Jay, 206; Canaries, Talking, 210-212; Chinese Starling, 205; Crowned Crane, 206; Cuckoo, 209; Laughing Goose, 209; Nightingale, 209; Piping Crow, 205; Snipe, Neighing, 213; Trochilos and Crocodile, 216; Umbrella Bird, 206; Whidaw Bird, 205; Wild Swan, 209; Woodpecker at Constantinople, 215