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INDEX 



Mice — coniimied. 



singing and waltzing, 124 



white and pied, 124 



wood monse, 119-123 

 Miniver, 107 

 Mole, 87-94 



earthworks, 90 



food, 88 



method of eating worms, 91 



pelage, 93 



popular names, 92 



usefulness to man, 92 



working hours, 90 

 Mongolian horses, 273 

 Mongoose, 23 

 Moose, 212, 234, 237 

 Musk ox, 249 



Norwegian dun Pont, 265 

 Nubian wild ass, 265, 266 



Okapi, 239 

 Onager, 264 

 Otter, 61-68 



l;)ite, 63 



cubs, 67 



habits described by Mr. Millais, 

 63, 65 



holt, 65 



hunting, 67 



tail, 62 

 Owl, 16 

 Oxen, 240-249 



aurochs or urus, 244, 245 



buffalo, 249 



bugall, 247 



Bos bonasus, 245 



Bos primigenius, 245 



Bos taurus, 244 



in literatiire, 247, 248 



organs of digestion, 242 



origin of domestic cattle, 244- 

 246 



teeth, 242 



wild cattle, 246-249 



Panther, 20, 22 

 Pariahs, 30, 



Pecora, 210 



Prejevalsky's horse, 273 



Perissodactyla, 188 



Pig, 197, 198-210 



boar's head carol, 205 

 hunting wild boar, 201-204 

 testament of a pig from Topsell, 



206-208 

 wild boar, 203, 209 



Polecat, 58 



derivation of name, 58 



in churchwardens' accounts, 50 



Porcupine, 171 



Porpoise, 75, 82, 89 



Pudu, 212 



Puma, 22, 23 



Puss, 9, 12 



I Rabbit, 152-158 

 ! enemies, 156 

 ' fur, 158 

 habits, 153 

 mesmerised by stoat and weasel, 



155 

 Mr. Millais on rabbits, 154, 156 

 stab, 154 

 traps, 156 

 Rats, 10, 16, 124-137 

 I black or old English, 124 

 I brown, 129-133 

 i date of introduction, 130 



i in literature, 130 

 \ Rats as plague carriers, 134-137 

 Rat fleas, 134 



Red clover and humble bees, 16 

 Reindeer moss, 236 

 Rene thrush, 56 

 i Rhinoceroses, 259, 262, 263 

 ■ woolly, 263 



virtiies of horn, 263 

 Rodents, 101-171 

 British families, 103 

 feet, 103 



general description, 101-103 

 ' hare-lip, 103 

 I skull of rabbit, 102 

 I teeth, 101 

 i Rook, 16 



