CONTENTS. 

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 -Chronological Instinct-Sunday 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-Loeh— 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' Winged 

 Nurse— Useful Hooks— Winter-Quarters— The Effects of Frost- 

 Latent Vitality— Queer Dormitories — The Grottos of Posilippo — 

 The Biels-H5hle— A Mass-Meeting House— Canadian Bats— Le 

 Borgne Corne— 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 

 1 Igliness — 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 Matives of Wynkoop's Bay — Fighting the Harpies — The 

 5ky-Fox"— Monkey-Birds— The Wages of Sin. . . .114 



