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.