Part 2

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.

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.