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INDEX 



Baltic Sea, 28, 304 



Barbasiella, 102, 383 



Barrington, Mr. R. M., 246 



Basque people, Bay of Biscay, 46, 376 



Bat, Bats, 76 et seq. ; origin of 77, 78 ; 

 fruit-eating, JJ, 79, 80 ; insect-eat- 

 ing, 79; nostrils in, 80, 83, 84, 106, 

 109, 112; breeding of, 81, 92; 

 methods of progression, 82, 92, 106; 

 hands or wings of, 78 et seq., 80, 

 82, 84 ; very defective knowledge of 

 British bats, 113; revised nomen- 

 clature, 84, 382; legs of, 79, 84, 109; 

 teeth of, 79, 80, 83, 88, 90, 103, 106 ; 

 hibernation of, 83, 92 ; mammae, 77, 

 79, III; food of, 83, 88, 93, 100, 

 III ; ears of, 80, 81, 83, 84, 91, 93 

 et seq., 103, 104, 108 ; etymology of 

 "bat,"' 91 



Bat, Bechstein's, 97, 113 



Bat, Daubenton's, 94, 95. 



Bat, the Barbastelle, 103 



Bat, the Common Continental {Myotis), 



98,99, 113 

 Bat, the Greater Horseshoe, 109 

 Bat, the Hairy-armed, 89 

 Bat, the Lesser Horseshoe, iii, 112 

 Bat, the Long-eared, 104 et seq. 

 Bat, the Noctule or Great, 87 

 Bat, the Notch-eared, 102 

 Bat, the Parti-coloured, 86, 113 

 Bat, the Pipistrelle or Common, 90 

 Bat, the Reddish-gray, 96 

 Bat, the Rough-legged, 94, 113 

 Bat, the Serotine, 85 

 Bat, the Whiskered, 100, loi 

 Bath, 346 

 Bear, Bears, 15, 131 et seq. ; anatomy of, 



132 ; teeth of, 132 

 Bear, the Alaska, 133 

 Bear, the Brown, 6, 15, 132 et seq. 

 Bear, the Cave, 3, 134 

 Bear, the Grizzly, 133 

 Bear, the Polar, 133 

 Beaver, 6, 15, 230 ; description of, 231 ; 



habits, 231 ; distribution, 232 ; name 



in Britain, 233 

 Beaver, the Giant, 234 

 Beddard, Mr. F. G., I 



Bedford, Duchess of, 347 



Bedford, Duke of, 302, 347 



Beetles, 88 



Behring Straits, 176, 306, 346 



Belgium, 15, 52, 113, 134, 203, 245, 272, 



292, 346, 373, 374 

 Bell, Professor Thomas (author of 



British Quadrupeds), i, 25, 107, 108, 



133. 139. 182, 215 

 Beluga, 22, 23, 24 

 Berber, 376 

 Bibos, 354 

 Birds, 5, 16 

 Bison, 354, 355; in Britain, 15, 355, 



356 

 Bison, the American, 354 

 Bison, the European, 6, 15, 355 

 Blasius, Dr. J. H., 2, 100 

 Blubber, 20, 23, 37, 38 

 Boar, Wild, 6, 15, 286 et seq. ; present 



range of, 286 ; date of extinction in 



England, 287 ; in Scotland, 287 ; in 



Ireland, 286, 287 

 Boethius, or Boece, Hector, 233, 362 

 Bonhote, Mr. J. L., 100 

 Bos, 354, 391 

 Bos bonasus, 355 

 Bos indicus, 357 

 Bos primigenius, 356, 391 

 Bos priscus, 355, 391 

 Bostaurus, 353, 356, 391 ; sub-species of, 



357, 358f/j«? 

 Boston (U.S.A.), 23 

 Bournemouth, 3 

 BovidcB, 289 

 Brighton, 200 

 Bristol, 378 



Britain, British Isles, British Plateau, 

 12, 258, 366 ; anciently connected 



with North America, II, 12, 366 

 British horse, 6 

 British Mammals, I et seq., 15, 379; 



extirpation of, 4; reinforcement of, 



6; numbers of, in the British Islands, 

 IS, 379; in Scotland, 15, 379; in 

 Ireland, 15, 379; list of, 380 et seq. 

 British Museum of Natural History, 45, 



84, 100, 326 

 British races of man, 374 et seq. 



