INDEX. 



657 



striped, d(?3ori!)0(l, 47, 43 n. •, wont), 

 where found, 5'^ n.; its sizi', :ippe:ir- 

 ance, tkc. described, 52, 53 ii. 



Antenna; of insect's, what, iv. "200 ii. 



Atitiocli, earthquakes there, i. 8i. 



Antiparos, tjrotto of Magnis, account 

 of a visit to, i. 50— SSi 



4nih'rs of the elk, described, ii. flfi 

 and f)S II. ; of the rein-deer, i)8 ; of 

 the stig, 62 — G5 ; teclmical names of 

 Ihe, 7 >. 



Ant-.TJon, iv. ySl. See Lion- Ant. 



Ape, the, ii. 419 ; the lonsr-armed 

 or gibbon, ib. ; de.seribed, ib, — VJl ; 

 distinctions, 41i)n. ; dispositions and 

 country, ib. ; varieties, ash-coloured, 

 ib. ; tl)e little fci''''on> ib. ; the siiim- 

 anir, ib. ; its peculiarities, ib. ; sissem. 

 blies of the, WO n. ; cry, ib. ; imper- 

 fections, ib. ; Active Gibbon, ib. ; dis. 

 linctioiis, ib, ; Barbary, its intelli- 

 gence, 421 n. 



Aperea, or Brazilian rabbit, ii. 316 n. 

 and ;5-20. 



Aphides, or plant lice, their numbers, 

 iv. 224 n. ; varieties, ib. 225 u. ; their 

 e:ieniies, 225 n. 



Anicius, his method of dressing a hare, 

 ii. -rOS. 



Apodal fish, what, iii. 529 ; prickly Qn. 

 ned, 530 ,- soft-finned, 536. 



Apoplexy, the parrot subject to, iii. 

 20ti and n. 



Arabia, not the original country of the 

 horse, i. 470 n. ; the wild horte of, 474 ; 

 estimatwin and treatment of the horse 

 there, 475 — 178 ; its breed of horses 

 introduced into Ensrlaud, i. 495, iOfi n. 



Araho, or Cape bufl'alo, descrilied, i. 

 543 n. ; the liabits of the, 514 n. 



Aras, or maccaws, iii. 203 n. 



Archimedes, his method of determining 

 the purity of gold, i. 135. 



Arequipa, a burning mountain in Peru, 

 i. 76. 



Argali, or wild sheep, the Asiatic des. 

 cribed, ii. U) n. ; its residence, habits 

 and uses, 20 n. ; the American, ib. ; 

 account of, ib ; the bearded, 21 n. ; 

 one described by Caius, ib. 



Argentine, the fish described, iii. 542. 



Argonauta, the nautilus of the an- 

 cients, iv. 63 n. ; the shell of the, de- 

 scribed, ib. ; the keeled, ib. 



Aristophanes, his advice about liona, 

 ii. 156. 



Aristotle, his acount of the halcyon, iii. 

 4aiu. 



Arlotto, a sleep walker, story of, i. 

 347, .S4S. 



Armadillo or Tatou, an inhabitant of 

 the new continent, ii. 363, 364 ; its 

 shell described, 364, 365; method of 

 rolling itself up for defence, 365 ; 

 bears our climate, 366 ; burrows, ib. ; 

 their strong re-'istauce when bur. 

 rnwing, ib. ; hew taken then, ib. ; 



rolN down precip-ces,367 ; roots like 

 the liog, ill. ; livs witli the rjittle- 

 .■^naUe, how, ib. ; varieties of the, ib. ; 

 till- pig-lieaded, 368 ; the weasel- 

 licad^d, il>. 



Arms, human, their shape, i. 328. 



Arnee, a kind of buft do found in Africa, 

 i. 54-t n. ; the bhaiu arnee, 5^i5 u. ; tlie 

 tanrelepluuit, ib. ; its great size and 

 streneth, ib. ; the common, its cliar- 

 acleri-tics, ib. ; weight of one, 5t6. 



Artedi, his classification of fishes, iii. 52S 



Asia, the oriu'inal country of the horse, 

 proved, i. 471 n. 



Asiatics, the southern, described, i. 3'J8 

 — 399 a:id n. 



Asp, a venomous snake, iv. 180. 



Asperea, by some called the Brazilian 

 rabbit, described, ii. 320. 



Aspic, the viper known under thi.i 

 name, where, iv. 173 n. ; the real of 

 the ancients, 181, 1S2 n. See Haje. 



Ass, its similitude to the horse, i. 497; 

 distinctness of the species, 499, 500 ; 

 descriptinn of the, 499 n.; the wild ass, 

 500 ; habits of the wild ass, 501 n. ; 

 their fnod, ib. ; as^es of Cairo, ib. ; 

 eflect of internal emotions mi the, 

 ib. ; of music on the, 602 n. ; their e!e. 

 gance in Egypt, ib. ; flesli of the 

 wild ass eaten by the Peisians, 502 ; 

 wild in America, how hiuited, 503 ; 

 patience of the tame, 504; habits of 

 the, ib. 505; bad treatment of the 

 ass general, 505 ; esteemed in early 

 times, 505 n. ; its strength and other 

 qualifications, 506 ; e^^teemed bv the 

 Spaniards, ib. ; once lost in England, 

 now common, 507 ; of different conn- 

 tries, ib. ; its diseases, age, &c. ib. 



Asterias, or star-fish tribe, described, 

 iv. 412 and n. 



Astracan breed of sheep described, ii. 

 15 n. 



Atalautis, Island of, disappeared, i. 98. 



Athanatus, his strength, i. 335. 



Athelstan, hi.s attention to the improve- 

 ment of the horse, i. 490. 



Athenians, cock-fighting among the, iii. 

 109 ; quail-fightuig, 147. 



Atherine, description of the fish, iii. 

 S40. 



Athol, Earl of, his stag hunt, ii. 70 n. ; 

 forest of, for red deer, 72 n. ; hunting 

 there, how performed, ib. 



Atmosphere. See Air. 



Attitudes of the body express passions, 

 1.321,322. 



Attraction and impulsion, influence ot. 

 i. 2—5. 



.Attraction, how it produces the tides, 

 i. 174. 



Auk, characters of the class, iii. 397 ; 

 varieties, ib. and 398 n. ; the gn-al 

 auk, an account of, 398 n. ; of the 

 little, ib. 



Aurelia or chrysalis, '. tate of e phein. 



