INDEX. 



627 



Orang-outang, 151, 156, 185, 187 



visit of Waterton to, 1 66. 



182 



Ord, George, 127, 280, 396 

 ... Miss, 14 

 Orioles, golden, 117 

 Ormskirk medicine, 209 

 Ornithological letter to W. Swainson, 



5H 



Orpheus and Eurydice, 428 

 O'Shanter, Tarn, 306 

 Ouarines, 161 



Outbuildings at Walton, 64 

 Ovid, description of the zones, 178 

 ... thought goose sharper than dog, 

 196 



on the owl, 271 



on the yew, 453 

 Owl, barn, 270 



little Italian, 282 



tawny, 278 



died of want in captivity, 262 

 Owls in the park, 577 



PACKS of hounds, artificial, 202 

 Paganini, 276 

 Paille-en-que, 416 

 Palm-Sunday, adventure on, 10 

 Pamphili Doria, villa of, 34 

 Pantheon, bird-market of the, 282, 325 

 Parasite plants of Guiana, 350 

 Parima Lake, 47, 48, 51 

 Park, description of Walton, 119 

 Parrish, Mr, 554 

 Passavant, a miser of Basle, 283 

 Pasche eggs, 1 1 

 Passenger pigeon, the, 353 

 Passer solitarius, 504 

 Pata, 154 



Patterson, family of, 14 

 Peacock in the Exhibition of 1851, 98 

 " Peacock " sloop of war, 40 

 Peake, Captain, 40 



Peale, Rembrandt's picture of Wash- 

 ington, 551 



... Titian, 241, 553, 559, 571 

 Peasant and pig, 108 

 Peel's, Sir Robert, oath, 7 

 Pegalls, hands in, 482 

 Pelican feeding its young, 150 

 Pellets of owl, 274 



Peregrine falcon among wild ducks, 

 389 



Peregrine falcon, breeding-place of, 



407 



Pernambuco, 44, 51 

 Peters Weneslaus, 610 

 Pether, dancing-master, 15 

 Petrefactions at Florence, 80 

 Phaeton, the, 416, 502 

 " Pharsalia," Lucan's, 123 

 Pheasant, the, 366 

 Phelps, a policeman, 65 

 Philip, a mule, 198 

 Philippe, Louis, 128 

 Phlebotomy, 42 

 Pica Marina, 326 

 Pickering, Timothy, 13, 14, 

 Picnic parties at Walton, 122 

 Picture of Waterton on the cayman, 



126 



Pigeon, the dovecot, 362 

 Pigeon-cot and weasel, 231 

 Pigeons and owl, 275 

 Pig-killing in Rome, 84 

 Pig-stye, Waterton concealed in a, 19 

 Pigtails, 138 

 Pike caught by fox, 214 

 Pilkington, Sir William, 120, 229, 568 

 Pillars of Hercules, 146 

 Pizarro, 47 

 Poachers, 368 

 Poachers, magpies give warning of, 



333 



Poem on the loss of the Pollux," 101 

 Poets on the owl, 271 

 Polecat, 227, 228, 341, 468 

 Politics, Waterton's, 61, 128 

 " Pollux," the, 94 

 Polyphemus, 187 

 Pond at Tudhoe, 13 

 Pongoe, the, 158 

 Pontefract Castle, a Waterton governor 



of, 4 



recorder of, 121 

 Poplar-tree, 9, 123 

 Portolongoni, 97 

 Portsmouth, 32 

 Power, Mr, 26 

 Power of vegetation, 464 

 Pouch supposed in rook, 302 

 Poultry attacked by weasel, 230 

 Precautions to save ducklings from 



crows, 294 



Prehensile tail, nature of, 140 

 Preserving insects, method of, 527 



