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fish the whale, 255; account of the Irish whale fish- 

 cry, ib., 256; whales diminishing in numbers, and the 

 effect, 256; the, how killed by the Biscayneers, ib., 

 258; Scoresby's account of the whale, 256 259, n.\ 

 maternal affection of the, 259, .; uses of the oil and 

 greaves, 258; barb and flesh, ib.; flesh, by what na- 

 tions prized, 260 ; the beluga, or white whale, ib., n. ; 

 the deductor, or ca'ing whale, 261, .; the sperma- 

 ceti whale, 262, n. 



Whale-louse, its injury to the whale, ii. 255. 



Whelk, a small shell-fish, ii. 369, n. 



Whimbrel, described, ii. 194, n. 



Whip-snake^ its appearance, ii. 423; venomous bite, ib. 



Whirlpools, i. 96. See Currents, the Madstroom, &c. 



Whiskers, veneration of the Spaniards and other nations 

 for, i. 1 73. 



Whiston, his theory of the earth, i. 1416. 



White bait, fishery of the, on the Thames, ii. 316, n.; 

 found in the Frith of Forth, ib. ; general description 

 of, ib.; account of the appearance of, near London, 

 318; what they are, ib. 



Whiting, a species of cod, described, ii. 300, n. 



WUlalL kingdom of, the serpent, how adored there, ii. 

 415. 



Winds, \. 116; how produced, ib.; chiefly by the sun, 

 ib.; difficulty of a history of, 117; steadiness of, in 

 certain places, ib.; causes of, 117 119; history and 

 theory of trade- winds, 118, n. ; trade-winds, 121; 

 monsoons, 122 ; some winds peculiar to certain 

 coasts, 123; some change daily, ib.; east, why the 

 most powerful and constant, ib. ; on mountains, ib. ; 

 varied by the seasons, 124 ; its currents, how in- 

 creased, ib.; hot, 125; destructive, ib. ; in Persia, ib. ; 

 hurricane, ib. ; tornado, 126; sand-storm, ib. ; storms 

 in Britain, ib.; in France, 127; sirocco, 128. 



Wind-gun, account of the, i. 1 07. 



Wings of birds, their conformation, ii. 2, 3; wings and 

 wing cases of insects, 6' 16. 



Wistiti, kind of monkey, i. 508. 



Wolf, the, distinguished from the dog, i. 398 and n. ; 

 period of gestation, ib. ; size, colour, and disposition, 

 ib.; antipathy to the dog, 390 ; their untameableness, 

 ib., 400; their generation, 400, 401 ; strength, 401; 

 suspiciousness, ib. ; how hunted, ib., 402; how extir- 

 pated from England, 402 ; where found, ib. ; the Nor i h 

 American, its tractability, ib., 403. 



Wolf-fish, notice of the, ii. 299. 



Wolga, the largest river in Europe, what remarkable in 

 the, i. 75. 



Wolverine. See Glutton. 



Wood, fossil, ii. 595. 



Wood cock. See Cock of tine wood. 



a migratory bird, described, ii. 191, n. 



Woodpecker, characteristics of the, ii. 101; colonies of 

 the, ib. ; green woodspite described, ib. ; tongue and 

 its use, 102; how it attacks ant-hills, 103; its nest, 

 ib.; young, ib.; hanging nests of the, in Guinea and 

 Brazil, 104; the gold- winged, account of the confine- 



ment of one, 105; ivory -"oil led woodpecker, 103, w.; 

 gold- winged woodpecker, 104, n.\ red-headed wood- 

 pecker, ib., 105, n.\ downy woodpecker, 106, n. 



Woodspite, green, ii. 102. See Woodpecker. 



Woodward, his theory of the earth, i. 14; of earthquakcSj 

 46. 



Woody fibres of plants, ii. 601. 



Wool, manufacture of, when commenced in Britain, i. 

 288; that of Merino sheep described, 295. 



Worms, their motion, how effected by the spiral muscle, 

 ii. 559; what organs they want, ib.; eggs, ib. ; young, 

 ib.; avoid the animals that prey on them, 560; what 

 peculiar in them, ib. ; reproduction by cutting, when 

 first observed, ib. 



Wrasse, a prickly-finned fish, ii. 296. 



Wren, ii. 153, n.\ golden- crested wren, ib.; willow- wren, 

 ib. ; wood-wren, ib. 



Wryneck, a bird resembling the woodpecker, ii. 103, n. 



Wynh/n de Worde, his qualifications of a good grey- 

 hound, i. 391. 



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Xipliias, ii. 294. See Su-ord-fsh. 



Yaivning, how produced, i. 170; its sympathetic nature, 



^ib., 171,?2. 

 Yellow-hammer, or Yellotu-yeldring, a species of bunting, 



ii. 151, n. 

 Young, courage and art of animals in defending their, i. 



Youth. See Puberty. 



Zebra, its beauty and untameableness, i. 265 ; distinc- 

 tion between the zebra of the plains and the moun- 

 tain zebra, ib., n.; original country of the, 265; its 

 shape and colours, ib. ; male described, ib. ; instances 

 of its fierceness, 266 ; reason why untamed, ib. ; swift - 

 ness of the, 267; instances of female zebras producing 

 mules, ib., n.; its food, ib.; voice, ib.; value, ib. 



Zeiran, a kind of gazelle, i. 308. 



Zeus, or Doree, a prickly-finned fish, ii. 298. 



Zibet, a variety of the civet, its distinguishing marks, i. 

 4l.o 



Zoophytes, moaning of the term, ii. 557; what kind of 

 life they have, ib., 558 : how distinguished from 

 plants, ib., and .; distinctions of the class,558; classi- 

 fication, 562 567, n.; Blumenbach's description of, 

 558, 559, n. 



Zorille, a variety of the weasel kind, i. 421. 



