INDEX. 



Ambergris, 80 

 Antelopes, 253, 254 



Saiga, 249 

 Artiodactyla, 187, 197-258 

 Asses, 264 



Back-boned Animals, 9 



general structure, 10 

 Badger, 41-50 

 baiting, 50 



beliefs concerning, £0 

 descriiDtion by Mr. Millais, 44 



by Sir Alfred Pease, 46 

 food, 47, 

 hunting, 49 



in churchwardens' accounts, 50 

 in place names, 42 

 parasites, 48 

 pelage, 42 

 popular names — brock, 42, 



grey, 50 

 set, 34, 44, 46 

 skull, 49 

 Bast, 9 

 Bats, 172-184 



British species, 175 



barbastelle, 182 



horse-shoe, 174 \ 



long-eared, 181 t 



noctule or great bat, 180 I 



pipistrelle, 176-178 



serotine, 180 

 coloured bats of Ceylon, 184 

 families of small bats, 174 

 food, 178 



fruit-eating, 173, 174 

 hibernation, 174 

 in captivity, 178 



Bats — continued. 



insect-eating, 174 



leaf-nosed, 174 



vampires, 183 



wings, 172 

 Bear, 37-41 



baiting, 38 



brown, 37 



food, 37, 



gardens, 39 



grizzly, 37 



in Britain, 38 



polar, 41 

 Beaver, 108-112 



feet. 111 



fossil remains, 110 



in English place names, 110 



tail, 111 

 Bezoar stones, 252 

 Belling the cat, 128 

 Boar's head carol, 205 

 Book of St. Albans, 201 

 Bovida?, 239 

 Brawn, 205 

 Bucephalus, 275 



Cats, 1-20 



anatomy, 10-14 



colour, 17 



digestion, 243 



Egyptian, 5-9 



eyes, 17 



influence on yield of clover 



seed, 16 

 method of stalking prey, 18 

 origin of domestic cats, 4-9 

 Persian, 4 

 statues, 7 



