282 INDEX. 



Guinea-ass, larger and more beautiful than the horse, ii. 211. 



Guinea-hen, described, iv. 155. 



Guinea-horse, remarkable sports with it among the grandees 

 of that country, ii. 194. 



Guinea-pig, by Brisson placed among the rabbit kind ; native 

 of the warmer climates ; rendered domestic, and now be- 

 come common every-where ; its description ; in some places 

 a principal favourite, often displacing the lap-dog ; manner 

 of living among us ; most helpless and inoffensive, scarce 

 possessed of any courage ; their animosity exerted against 

 each other ; often fighting obstinately, and the stronger 

 destroys the weaker ; no natural instinct ; the female sees 

 her young destroyed, without attempting to protect them ; 

 suffer themselves to be devoured by cats ; fed upon recent 

 vegetables they seldom drink; sometimes gnaw clothes, 

 paper, or other things of the kind ; drink by lapping ; con- 

 fined in a room seldom cross the floor, but keep along the 

 wall ; never move abreast together ; chiefly seek the most 

 intricate retreats, and venture out only when all interrup- 

 tion is removed, like the rabbits ; in cold weather more 

 active ; a very cleanly animal ; their place must be regu- 

 larly cleaned, and a new bed of hay provided for them once 

 a-week ; the young falling into the dirt, or otherways dis- 

 composed, the female takes an aversion to them, and never 

 permits them to visit her more ; her employment, and that 

 of the males, consists in smoothing their skins, disposing 

 their hair, and improving its gloss, and take this office by 

 turns; do the same to their young, and bite them when 

 refractory ; reared without artificial heat; no keeping them 

 from fire in winter, if once permitted to approach it; man- 

 ner of sleeping, the male and the female watch one another 

 by turns ; generally capable of coupling at six weeks old ; 

 time of their gestation ; the female brings forth from three 

 to five at a time, not without pain ; suckles her young about 

 twelve or fifteen days, and suffers the young of others, 

 though older, to drain her, to the disadvantage of her own ; 

 produced with eyes open, and in twelve hours equal to the 

 dam in agility ; capable of feeding upon vegetables from 

 the beginning ; their disputes for the warmest place, or 

 most agreeable food ; manner of fighting ; flesh indifferent 

 food ; difficultly tamed ; suffer no approaches but of the 

 person who breeds them ; manner of eating ; drink sel- 

 dom, and make water often ; grunt like a young pig ; appear 

 to chew the cud, iii. 167. 



Guinea-sheep, have a kind of dewlap under the chin ; breed 

 with other sheep, therefore not animals of another kind, 

 ii. 262. 



Gull, places where found in plenty ; their food, iv. 380. 



Gulls, various ways of imposing upon each other; contests in 



