rk. No wild coyotes or wolves bark, but when bands
of dogs descended from domesticated animals run wild, their howls are
modulated and a certain unmistakable barking quality imparted. The
drawn-out howl of a great gray wolf is an impressive sound and one never
to be forgotten. Only the fox seems to possess the ability to bark in its
native tongue. The sounds which the cats, great and small, reproduce are
most varied. Nothing can be much more intimidating than the roar of a
lion, or more demoniacal than the arguments which our house-pets carry on
at night on garden fences.

What use the sounds peculiar to sea-lions subserve in their life on the
great ocean, or their haunts along the shore, can only be imagined, but
surely such laudable perseverance, day after day, to out-utter each other,
must be for some good reason!

Volumes have been written concerning the voices of the two remaining
groups of animals--monkeys and birds. In the great family of the
four-handed folk, more varieties of sound are produced than would be
thought possible. Some of the large baboons are awful in their
vocalisations. Terrible agony or remorse is all that their moans suggest
to us, no matter what frame of mind on the part of the baboon induces
them. Of all vertebrates the tiny marmosets reproduce most exactly the
chirps of crickets and similar insects, and to watch one of these little
human faces, see its mouth open, and instead of, as seems natural, words
issuing forth, to hear these shrill squeaks is most surprising. Young
orang-utans, in their "talk," as well as in their actions, are
counterparts of human infants. The scream of frantic rage when a banana is
offered and jerked away, the wheedling tone when the animal wishes to be
comforted by the keeper on account of pain or bruise, and the sound of
perfect contentment and happiness when petted by the keeper whom it learns
to love,--all are almost indistinguishable from like utterances of a human
child.

But how pitiless is the inevitable change of the next few years! Slowly
the bones of the cranium thicken, partly filling up the brain cavity, and
slowly but surely the ape loses all affection for those who take care of
it. More and more morose and sullen it becomes until it reaches a stage of
unchangeable ferocity and must be doomed to close confinement, never again
to be handled or caressed.

THE NAMES OF ANIMALS, FROGS, AND FISH

When, during the lazy autumn days, the living cr