I2 CONTENTS. 



Chronological InstinctSunday in France Sanguinary Sabbaths 

 The Virginia Partridge Cautious Marauders Rat- Patriarchs 

 Ratification-Meeting Wall-Mice Discovery of a Boarding-house- 

 Keeper Secret Lodgers The American Skunk Hidden Head- 

 quarters Extinct Animals Our Natural Game Preserves 

 Panthers and Wolves A Beast Asylum The Mountains of North 

 Carolina French Wolves The Mystery of Allendorf A Strange 

 Spoor In the Salpetar-Loch The Oberforster's Opinion Science 

 vs. Empiricism A Zoological Lecture Stubborn Sceptics An 

 argumentum ad hominem " Secret Camelopards" A Frank For- 

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CHAPTER V. 



BATS. 



Curious Fossils A Relic of a Bygone World Children of Tartarus 

 The Winged Lemur Night-Apes The Bat-Mystery Spallan- 

 zani's Conjecture The Sixth Sense Night- Walkers Gluttons and 

 their Characteristics Bat- Voices Aristotle's Opinion A t Winged 

 Nurse Useful Hooks Winter-Quarters The Effects of Frost 

 Latent Vitality Queer Dormitories The Grottos of Posilippo 

 The Biels-Hohle A Mass-Meeting House Canadian Bats Le 

 Borgne Come Phrenological Reflections Brainless Brutes A 

 Subterfuge The Salzburg Acropolis A " Bat-Rookery" Routing 

 his Lodgers An Acherontic Spectacle Children of Chaos Na- 

 tional Superstitions Natt-Backa Devil-Birds A Paragon of 

 Ugliness Slandered Benefactors Bacon-fat The Cockatrice 

 Vampire-Lore Ominous Symptoms Sleeping under Difficulties 

 The Ghoul-Bat A Vampire Trap Bonpland's Receipt A Valua- 

 ble Accomplishment Entomological Enigmas Mosquitoes How 

 they subsist in the Woods The " Sunken Lands" An Ugly Di- 

 lemma The Vampirus Spectrum A Miraculous Instinct Two 

 Drunken Sailors Exsanguis Tropical Bats The Kalong Nui- 

 sance Voracity of the Javanese Roussette Insatiable Boarders 

 A Tough Constitution The Pets of Cape Angol Rydenberg 

 Tropical Sports The Dutch Colonists A Fox-Chase in the Air 

 The Natives of Wynkoop's Bay Fighting the Harpies The 

 " Sky-Fox" Monkey-Birds The Wages of Sin . . . .114 



