INDEX. 393 



modelled alike, yet have a perfect antipathy to each other, 

 iii. 31. Principal distinction from the dog is the eye, which 



opens slantingly upwards in the same direction with the 

 nose, 32. Also the tail is long, bushy, hanging lank ; the 

 wolf lives about twenty years ; is not much with those of 

 his kind, yet hunts in packs with them ; quarrelling, they 

 devour each other, 32. Is watchful and easily waked ; 

 supplied with water, lives four or five days without food, 

 38. Carries off a sheep without touching the ground, and 

 runs with it swifter than the shepherds, his pursuers, 39. 

 Smells a carcass at a great distance ; leaving the wood, 

 goes out against the wind ; particularly fond of human 

 flesh ; follows armies, and arrive in numbers upon a field 

 of battle, 40. Two or three wolves keep a province for a 

 time in continual alarm ; distinguished by huntsmen into 

 young, old, and great wolf; manner of hunting them, 40. 

 The wolf killed, no dogs show an appetite to enjoy their 

 victory, 41. The flesh so very indifferent, no creature eats 

 it but the kind itself; breathe a most fetid vapour from 

 their jaws, 45. 



Wolf-dog, a beautiful and majestic animal, iii. 20. 



Wolf-fish, the anarchias, its description, v. 123. 



Wolverene, a variety of the glutton, iii. 113. 



Woman, the body arrives at perfection sooner than in men ; 

 the persons of women as complete at twenty as those of 

 men at thirty, i. 410. The bones, cartilages, muscles, and 

 other parts of the body, softer than in men ; a woman of 

 sixty has a better chance than a man of that age to live to 

 eighty ; women longer in growing old than men, ii. 63. 

 The shoulders narrower, and the neck proportionably 

 longer than in men, i. 433. Less apt to become bald than 

 men ; M. Buffon thinks they never become bald ; there are 

 too many instances of the contrary, 416. Some continue 

 pregnant a month beyond the usual time ; those of Africa 

 deliver themselves, and are well a few hours after, 384. 

 Remarkable instances of the power of imagination upon the 

 foetus, ii. 99. Lower eyelids drawn downwards when with 

 child ; the corners of the mouth also ; then likewise high- 

 shouldered ; circumstances under which the midwives call 

 them all mouth and eyes, i. 430. In barbarous countries 

 the laborious duties of life thrown upon the women, 403. 



Womb, history of the child in the womb, i. 378. Of the 

 hare divided into two, as a double organ, one side of which 

 may be filled, while the other remains empty, iii. 120. 

 Description of the false womb of the opossum, 324. 



Woodchat, a rapacious bird, third kind of the butcher-bird, 

 iv. 112. 



Woodcock, bird of the crane kind, its dimensions, iv. 340. 

 Is a bird of passage ; places where it is to be found, 344. 



