INDEX 



405 



Warwickshire, 94, 104 



Water vole, "Water rat." See Vole, the 

 Water 



Weasel, the, 161, 385 ; size of, 161 ; 

 colour of, 161 ; breeding of, 162 ; 

 mammae of, 162 ; distribution of, 

 164 



Weasels, the, 136 et seq., 148, 153 ; 

 divisions of, 136 



Welch, Mr. Robt., 286 



Welsh language, 376 



West Indies, 378 



Westmoreland, 287 



Whale, Cuvier's, 41, 381 



Whale, Sovverby's, 42, 381 



Whale, the Baleen or whalebone, 42, 

 381 



Whale, the Blue, 49, 381 



Whale, the " Ca'ing," 29, 380 



Whale, the Common Beaked or Bottle- 

 nosed, 40, 380 



Whale, the Humped-backed, 46, 381 



Whale, the Killer, 26 ei seq., 380 



Whale, the Lesser Killer, 15, 28, 380 



Whale, the Right (Greenland), 42, 44 



Whale, the Southern right, 15, 44 et seq., 

 381 



Whale, the Sperm, 1 5, 36 et seq., 380 



Whale, the White, 22 et seq., 380 



Whalebone, 44, 45, 49 



Whales, 15, 17 et seq., 52 ; limbs of, 17, 

 18, i^ et seq., 46 ; teeth of, 18, 19, 

 24, 27, 33. 36, 42. 46 ; origin of, 18, 

 52; bony tubercles of, 24,41,48; 



voice of, 23, 26, 34, 40, 51 ; blubber 

 of, 20, 37 ; food of, 22, 23, 26, 28, 38, 

 39, 45, 48, 49 et seq. ; mammary 

 glands of, 20, 34 ; ear of, 18, 25, 

 33 ; "gill" openings, skin folds of, 

 48, 49 ; nasal organ, nostrils, 19, 



37. 42, 46 

 Whales, the Squalodont, 18 

 Whales, the Toothed. See Odontoceti 

 Whales, the Zeuglodont, 18, 19, 52 

 Whales, the Ziphioid, 39 

 Wicklow, 97, 218 

 Wild boar. See Boar, Wild 

 Wiltshire, 234, 306 

 Winton, Mr. W. E. de, i, 122, 246 

 Wolf, the, 15, 127, et seq., 383; extinction 



of, in Britain, 131 ; reintroduction of, 



131 

 Woodward, Dr. A. B. Smith, i 

 Wyman, Professor, 24 



Yak, 357 

 Yarmouth, 46 

 Yorkshire, 3, i 

 355 



), 135, 168, 180, 181, 233, 



Zebra, Gravy's, 273 



Zebra, the, 276 



Zebu (Indian domestic cattle), 354, 357 



Zeuglodont whales, 18, 19 



Ziphioid whales, Ziphiince, Ziphiiis, 19, 



39 et seq. 

 Zittel, Dr. Karl A. von, 2, 177, 259, 274 

 Zoologist, the, 2 



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