INDEX 



289 



Ruminants, 197, 210-258 



Sackerson, 41 

 Sea-lion, 14, 72 

 Seals, 9, 14, 69-72 

 British varieties, 69 

 sensitiveness to music, 70 

 Sekhet, 9 

 Sheep, 10, 249-253 



horns, 251 

 Shrews, 94-100 

 food, 96 

 lesser, 99 

 nose, 94 

 pelage, 94 

 superstitions, 95, 96 

 tail, 94 



teeth, 94, 97, 99 

 Topsell on the shrew, 97 

 water shrew, 99 

 ears, 94 

 Slow-worm, 16 

 Slugs, 16 



Snow leopard or ounce, 23 

 Spermaceti, 80 

 Squirrel, 103-108 



destructive in forests, 1 04 

 grey squirrel, 105 

 in captivity, 104, 105 

 nest or drey, 106 

 pelage, 107 

 superstitions, 107 

 Stoat or ermine, 50-53 

 hob, 52 

 migration, 53 

 stores of food, 53 

 strategy in hunting, 52 



Tapirs, 259-261 

 Tarpans, 272, 273 

 Tiger, 20, 21 

 Tod, 32 



Ungulates, 185-284 

 even-toed, 197-258 

 groups of existing, 187 

 horns, 186 



Vugxiliites ~ continued. 



odd-toed, 259-284 



teeth, 185 

 Urchin, see Hedgehog, 84 



Vixen, 34 



Voles or red mice, 16, 138-152 



bank vole, 139-141 



enemies, 148 



field vole, 141-149 



" Pied-i^iper," 148 



superstitions, 143, 



vole plagues, 140, 142-149, 152 



water vole or craber, 149-152 



ears, 149 



food, 152 



fossil remains, 150 



in captivity, 151 



Walrus, 9 

 Weasel, 53-57 



food, 55, 



popular names, cane, kiiie or 

 keen, 56, 57 



dandy dogs, 55 



fairy hounds, 55 



" Pop goes the weasel," 56 

 Whales, 9, 73-81 



blow-holes, 74 



blubber, 74 



blue, 73, 78 



cachalot or sperm, 78 



fin, 78 



Greenland, 76 



killers, 75 



right, 76 



throat, 81 



toothed, 76, 78 



whale-bone whales, 76 

 Whalebone, 76 

 Wireworms, 16 

 Wolf, 25, 31, 32 



hunting, 31 



month, 31 



Zebra, 265 



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