INDEX. 



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

 ery, ib., '256; whales diminishing in numbers, and the 

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

 258; Scoresby's account of the whale, 25(> 259, n.; 

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

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

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

 the deductor, or ca'ing whale, 261, n.; 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. i 94, n. 



W/iip-snake, its appearance, ii. 423; venomous bite, ib. 



Whirlpooli, i. 96. See Currents, the Maelstroom, &c. 



Whiskers, veneration of the Spaniards and other nations 

 for, i. 173. 



Whiston, his theory of the earth, i. 14 16. 



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. 



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

 415. 



Winds, i. 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, 616. 



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. 



Wolf/a, the largest river in Europe, what remarkable in 

 the, i. 75. 



Wolverine. See Glutton.- 



Wwd, fossil, ii. 595. 



Wood cock. See Cock of the 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 g>ld- winged, account of the confine- 



ment of one, 105; ivory-billed \roocrpfeker, 103, .; 

 gold-winced woodpecker, ll)4, n.\ red-headed wood- 

 pecker, ib., 1 05, n. ; downy woodpecker, 1 06, n. 



Woodspite, green, ii. 102. See Woodpecker. 



} Voodward, his theory of the earth, i. 1 4 ; of earthqua kc., 

 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. 5.59; 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. 1 53, n. ; golden-crested wren, ib. ; willow- wren, 

 ib. ; wood-wren, ib. 



Wryneck, a bird resembling the woodpecker, ii. 1 03, n. 



Wynkyn de Worde, his qualifications of a good grey- 

 hound, i. 391. 



Xiphias, ii. 294. See Sword-fish. 



Yawning, how produced, i. 1 70 ; its sympathetic nature, 

 ^ib., 171, n. 

 Yellow-hammer, or Yettoii'-yeldring, a species of bunting, 



ii. 151, n. 

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



243. 

 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. 

 423. 



Zoophytes, meaning 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, .; Blumenbach's description of 

 558, 559, n. 



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



