INDEX. 335 



ders peculiar to the parrot kind ; one well kept will live 

 five or six-and-twenty years, iv. 221. 



Parsley, pinks, and birch, hares are particularly fond of, iii. 

 122. 



Partridges, in England, a favourite delicacy at the tables of 

 the rich, whose desire of keeping them to themselves has 

 been gratified with laws for their preservation, no way har- 

 monizing with the general spirit of English legislation, and 

 why ; there are two kinds, the grey and the red ; the grey 

 is most prolific, and always keeps on the ground ; the red 

 less common, and perches upon trees; the partridge is 

 found in every country and climate ; in Greenland, where 

 it is brown in summer, it becomes white in winter ; those of 

 Barakonda are larger legged, swifter of foot, and reside in 

 the highest rocks ; partridges of all sorts agree in one cha- 

 racter, being immoderately addicted to venery, often to 

 an unnatural degree ; the male pursues the hen to her nest, 

 and breaks her eggs, rather than be disappointed ; the young 

 having kept in flocks during the winter, break society in 

 spring, when they begin to pair, and terrible combats ensue; 

 their manners otherwise resemble those of poultry, but their 

 cunning and instincts are superior ; means the female uses 

 to draw away any formidable animal that approaches her 

 nest ; the covies from ten to fifteen, and, unmolested, they 

 live from fifteen to seventeen years ; method of taking them 

 in a net with a setting-dog the most pleasant, and most 

 secure; they are never so tame as our domestic poultry, 

 iv. 166. 



Passions, most of the furious sort characterized from the ele- 

 vation and depression of the eye-brows, i. 414;. Freedom 

 from passions not only adds to the happiness of the mind, 

 but preserves the beauty of the face, ii. 62. 



Pastures, those of Great Britain excellently adapted to qua- 

 drupeds of the cow kind, ii. 228. 



Patas, by some called the red African monkey ; its descrip- 

 tion, iii. 316. 



Paunch, name of the first stomach of ruminating animals, 

 ii. 223. 



Pazan, name of the eighth variety of gazelles, by M. Buffon, 

 ii. 284. 



Peacock, a saying among the ancients, as beautiful as is the 

 peacock among birds, so is the tiger among quadrupeds, ii. 

 414". Varieties of this bird ; some white, others crested ; 

 that of Thibet the most beautiful of the feathered creation ; 

 our first were brought from the East Indies ; and they are 

 still found in flocks in a wild state in the islands of Java and 

 Ceylon ; the common people of Italy say it has the plumage 

 of an angel, the voice of a devil, and the guts of a thief; in 

 the days of Solomon, we find his navies imported from the 



