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INDEX 



Pleistocene period, 15, 16, 17, 123, 131, 



134, 167, 284, 320, 341, 346, 373, 379 

 Plesiometacarpalia,i%\, iqj2, 306, 344 

 Pliocene period, 15, 16,44,68, 123, 131, 



132, 167, 170, 288 

 Poland, 186, 271, 304, 355, 359 

 Polecat, 1 54 et seq. ; name of, 1 54 ; 



colour of, 154 

 Ponies, Conneraara, 276 

 Ponies, Norway, 276 

 Porpoise, the common, 25 

 Porpoises, 21 

 Portugal, Portuguese, 213, 214, 245, 



292. 310, 320 

 Prehistoric period, 16, 134, 265 

 Premolar teeth, 9, 119; number of, 



in primitive mammals, 115, 116; 



special development of, in true 



Carnivora (carnassial), 116, 117; 



premolar teeth in dogs, \l^ et seq. ; 



in Machairodonts, 169 ; in cats, 174 ; 



in civets, 165 ; in seals, 195 ; in 



rodents, 209 ; in elephants, 262 ; in 



saiga gazelle, 342 ; in monkeys, 367 

 Prepollex, 60 

 Primary Epoch, 76 

 Primates, 365 et seq.\ origin of the, 16, 



210, 365 ; comparison with bats, 78 

 Prjevalski's horse, 274, 276 

 Proboscidea, 14, 259 et seq. 

 Procyonidce, 135 

 Prongbuck, the, 288, 290 

 Proteles, 166 

 Protohippus, 27^ 

 Proviverra, 115, 117 

 Pseudorca, 28, 380 



Pteropod molluscs (food of whales), 45 

 Pterygisies ( Vesperugd), 84, 87, 89, 382 

 Putorius, 153, 154, 384 

 Pygmy men, 3, 375 

 Pyrenees, 346, 376 



Quaternary Epoch, i6 



Rabbit, the common, 212 et seq. ; origin 

 of, 213 ; migrations, 213 ; indigenous 

 to the British Islands, 214; colour 

 of, 215; habits, 216; in Austraha, 

 217 



Raccoon-like dog, 127 



Raccoons, the 127, 135 



Rangifer, 303, 390 



Rat, the black, 241 



Rat, the brown, 239 



Rats, 238 



Reay Forest, 186 



Recent or Historical period, 16, 266 



Red deer, 281, 292, 305 ; diseases of, 



337. 338 ; colour, 321 ; antlers, 323, 



324 etseq. ; breeding, 335 

 Reindeer, 6, 15, 281, 292, 303 etseq. ; two 



types of, 305, 306 ; in Scotland, 305 ; 



antlers of, 304 

 Reptiles, 11, 16, 54 

 Reynard the Fox, 124 

 Rhinoceros, the African, 270 

 Rhinoceros, the white or Burchell's, 



270 

 Rhinoceros, the woolly, 271, 389 

 Rhinoceroses, 268 et seq. ; origin of the, 



269 ; early British, 270 ; in Germany, 



Rhinolophida (the leaf-nosed bats), 108 



Rhinolophiis, 109, 383 



Rhododendrons, 7 



Risso's Grampus. See Grampus 



Rochester, 51 



Rocky Mountain goat {Haploceros), 340, 



344 

 Rodents, 55, 209 et seq. ; divided into 



two sub-orders, 211, 224 

 Roe deer, 292 et seq. ; distribution of, 



299 ; colour, 294, 296 ; antlers of, 



296 ; long pregnancy of, 300 

 Roe deer, Siberian, 299 

 Romans, 156, 278, 306, 312, 356, 376 

 Rome, 133, 156 

 Romerolagus, 212 

 Rorqual, Rudolphi's, 50, 51 

 Rorqual, Sibbald's, 49 

 Rorqual, the Common, 48 

 Rorqual, the Lesser, 51 

 Rowland Ward, Mr., 316 

 Royal Irish Constabulary, 377 

 Rumania, 246 

 Ruminants, 289, 290 

 Russia, Russians, 151, 240, 241, 265, 299, 



304, 355 



