394 



INDEX 



Baltic Sea, 28, 304 



Barbaslella, 102, 383 



Barrington, Mr. R. M., 246 



Basque people, Bay of Biscay, 46, 376 



Bat, Bats, 76 et seq. ; origin of "jf, 78 ; 

 fruit-eating, ']'], 79, 80 ; insect-eat- 

 ing, 79; nostrils in, 80, 83, 84, 106, 

 109, 112; breeding of, 81, 92; 

 methods of progression, 82, 92, 106; 

 hands or wings of, 78 et seq., 80, 

 82, 84 ; very defective knowledge of 

 British bats, 113; revised nomen- 

 clature, 84, 382; legs of, 79, 84, 109; 

 teeth of, 79, 80, 83, 88, 90, 103, 106 ; 

 hibernation of, 83, 92 ; mammae, 77, 

 79, III; food of, 83, 88, 93, 100, 

 III ; ears of, 80, 81, 83, 84, 91, 93 

 et seq., 103, 104, 108 ; etymology of 

 "bat,'' 91 



Bat, Bechstein's, 97, 113 



Bat, Daubenton's, 94, 95. 



Bat, the Barbastelle, 103 



Bat, the Common Continental {Myotis), 



98,99. "3 

 Bat, the Greater Horseshoe, 109 

 Bat, the Hairy-armed, 89 

 Bat, the Lesser Horseshoe, iii, 112 

 Bat, the Long-eared, 104 et seq. 

 Bat, the Noctule or Great, 87 

 Bat, the Notch-eared, 102 

 Bat, the Parti-coloured, 86, 113 

 Bat, the Pipistrelle or Common, 90 

 Bat, the Reddish-gray, 96 

 Bat, the Rough-legged, 94, 113 

 Bat, the Serotine, 85 

 Bat, the Whiskered, 100, loi 

 Bath, 346 

 Bear, Bears, 15, 131 et seq. ; anatomy of, 



132 ; teeth of, 132 

 Bear, the Alaska, 133 

 Bear, the Brown, 6, 15, 132 et seq. 

 Bear, the Cave, 3, 134 

 Bear, the Grizzly, 133 

 Bear, the Polar, 133 

 Beaver, 6, 15, 230 ; description of, 231 j 



habits, 231 ; distribution, 232 ; name 



in Britain, 233 

 Beaver, the Giant, 234 

 Beddard, Mr. F. G., I 



Bedford, Duchess of, 347 



Bedford, Duke of, 302, 347 



Beetles, 88 



Behring Straits, 176, 306, 346 



Belgium, 15, 52, 113, 134, 203, 245, 272, 

 292, 346, 373, 374 



Bell, Professor Thomas (author of 

 British Quadrupeds), i, 25, 107, io8^ 

 133. 139. 182, 215 



Beluga, 22, 23, 24 



Berber, 376 



Bibos, 354 



Birds, 5, 16 



Bison, 354, 355; in Britain, 15, 355, 

 356 



Bison, the American, 354 



Bison, the European, 6, 15, 355 



Blasius, Dr. J. H., 2, 100 



Blubber, 20, 23, 37, 38 



Boar, Wild, 6, 1 5, 286 et seq. ; present 

 range of, 286 ; date of extinction in 

 England, 287 ; in Scotland, 287 ; in 

 Ireland, 286, 287 



Boethius, or Boece, Hector, 233, 362 



Bonhote, Mr. J. L., 100 



Sos, 354, 391 



Bos bonasus, 355 



Bos indicus, 357 



Bos priniigenius, 356, 391 



Bos priscus, 355, 391 



Bostaurus, 353, 356, 391 ; sub-species of,. 

 357, 358 etseq 



Boston (U.S.A.), 23 



Bournemouth, 3 



Bovidce, 289 



Brighton, 200 



Bristol, 378 



Britain, British Isles, British Plateau,. 

 12, 258, 366 ; anciently connected 

 with North America, 11, 12, 366 



British horse, 6 



British Mammals, I et seq., 15, 379; 

 extirpatioc of, 4; reinforcement of, 

 6; numbers of, in the British Islands, 

 15, 379; iti Scotland, 15, 379 ; in 

 Ireland, 15, 379; list of, 380 et seq. 



British Museum of Natural History, 45^ 

 84, 100, 326 



British races of man, 374 et seq. 



