INDEX 



401 



Natterer's bat. See Bat, the Reddish- 

 gray 



Neanderthaloid type of man, 374 



Negro, 373, 378 



Negro intermixture in British people, 

 378 



Nemorhedus, 349 



Neolithic (fee Man), 3, 168, 318, 350, 361, 

 375 



Nesopithecus, 367 



New Forest, 125, 278, 287 



Newfoundland, 202 



New Guinea, 1 1 



New Zealand, 3, 41 



Nilghai, 353 



Nordenskiold, Dr., 22 



Norfolk, 21, 41, loi, 170, 202, 235, 346 



Normans, 91, 147, 241, 325, 339, 377 



North America, 11, 12, 14, 18, 59, 189, 



347, 354 

 North Sea, 52 

 Northamptonshire, 161 

 Northumberland, 200, 362 

 Norway, 34, 276, 304, 320 

 Nose, Nasal Organ, 19, 53, 60, 80, 106, 



109, 112 

 Novaia Zemlia, 194, 257 



Odobcenus, 191, 386 



Odontoceti (toothed whales), 19 



Oil, of walruses, 194; of whales and 



porpoises, 26, 38, 42 

 Okapi, 277, 288 

 Oligocene period, 13, 16 

 Onohippidium, 274, 275 

 Opossums, 365 

 Orang utan, 372 

 Orca gladiator, 26 

 Oreopithecus, 370 

 Orkney Islands, 49, 59, 194, 199, 208, 



304 

 Omithorhynchus. See Duckbill 

 Oryctolagus, 212, 386 

 Osborn, Professor H. F., 258 

 Otariidce (eared seals) {see Sea lions), 



191 

 Otocyon, 114, 115 

 Otter, 5, 136 et seq.\ teeth of, 137, 188 ; 



colour of, 137 ; mammae of, 138 ; 



nest of, 138 ; habits of, 138 et seq. ; 



use which might be made of, 139; 



hunting of, 140 ; distribution of, 141, 



142 

 Otter, the Sea, 136, 189 

 Otter hounds, 5, 140 

 Ovibos {see also Musk ox), 340, 343, 349, 



391 



Ovis aries, 350, 391 



Ovis savini, 350, 391 



Ovis vignei, 349 etseq. 



Owen, Sir Richard, i, 319 



Oxen, the {see Cattle), 340, 351 et seq.\ 

 cannon bones of, 281, 352; origin 

 of, 353. 354 ; tail of, 352 ; mammae 

 of, 352; horns of, 352, 353; molar 

 teeth of, 353 



Oxen, Keltic short horn, 360, 361, 364 



Oxen, Taurine group of, 354, 356 et seq. 



Pacific Ocean, 52, 136 



Palaeolithic man, 3, 15, 134, 170, 318, 



370, 374 

 Paleontology, Handbook of, 2 

 Panda, 15, 135 

 Patagonia, 275, 368 



Pecora, 282 et seq., 288 et seq., 340 et seq. 

 Perissodactyla, 259, 267 

 Persia, 179, 184,319, 351 

 Peterhead, 46 

 Pheasant, 4, 156, 214, 312 

 Philippine Islands, 77 

 Phoca, 197, 386 

 Phoccena, 24, 380 

 Physeter 36, 380 

 Physeieridm (sperm whales), 36 

 Picts, the, 375 

 Pig, the domestic, 283; origin of, 284, 286; 



in Ireland, 285, 286 

 Pigs, the, 282, 284 et seq. ; canine teeth 



in, 285 ; mammae in, 268, 285, 352 

 Pika, the {see Lagomys), 15, 2ii, 386 

 Pinnipedia, 115, 187 

 Pipistrelle, 90 

 Pipistrellus, 84, go, 382 

 Pithecanthropus, 372 

 Platanistid dolphins, 18, 19 

 Platyrrhine monkeys, 366 

 Plecotus, 104, 383 



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