INDEX 



249 



Egg-tooth, 61, 64 



Eggs, incubation period of, 



73 

 Egyptian oat, 90 

 Electric cat-fish, 183 



— eel, 180 



— ray, 184 



— star-gazer, 185 

 Elephant, 160 

 Elephant sheep, 47 



Falconry, 95 

 Fat-rumped sheep, 50 

 Fat-tailed desert-mouse, 52 



— sheep, 50, 52 

 Ferret, 91, 92 

 Fire-bellied toad, 20 

 Fish, eggs of, 68 



— fighting, 33 



— locomotion of, 198 



— scales of, 147 

 Flamingo, 140 

 Foster-mothers, 77 



Four -homed antelope, 166 

 Foxes trained to catch rats, 



93 

 Frogs, 21, 67, 80, 81, 142, 



173, 194, 218 



G 



Galagos, 124 

 GaU, 145, 156 

 Game reserves, 109 

 Garden dormouse, 130 

 Garial, 65 



Geckos, 195 

 Gelatine, 142, 156 

 Genet, 92, 150 

 Gerfalcons, 102 

 Giant tortoise, 65 

 Gibbon, 121, 188 

 Gila monster, 216 

 Giraffe, 163, 167 

 Gladiators, 37 

 Globe-fish, 199 

 Glue, 45, 143, 144, 146 

 Gnat, eggs of, 71 

 Goat, 45 



Gold-beaters' skin, 144 

 Golden eagle, 103 



— orfe, 237 

 -— tench, 237 

 Goldfish, 231 

 Gohath beetle, 141 

 Gopher frog, 81 



— tortoise, 81 

 GoriUa, 121, 188 

 Goshawk, 101 

 Green turtle, 141 

 Guano, 140 

 Guillemot, eggs of, 55 



H 



Hamadryad, 211 

 Hare, 132 



Harvest mouse, 128 

 Hausa sheep, 52 

 Hawksbill turtle, 150 

 Hedgehog, 170 

 Heloderm, 52, 216 

 Hobby, 102 



