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INDEX. 



British Museum, Assyrian las-reliefs in, 

 34 ; natural history department of 

 the, 7. 



Buffalo. See Bison. 



Buffalo, the Burmese, 401 ; the Cape, 

 404 ; the domesticated, 397 ; the 

 Indian, 397 ; the wUd, 400. 



Buffalo-bird, the, 410. 



Buffalo -robes, 396. 



BurcheU's zebra, 355. 



CfliSAR, Julius, African elephant brought 

 to Britain by, 277. 



Camel, the, 175 ; ancient records of, 

 176; taught to dance, 204. 



Camel, the Bactrian, 209 ; seen in a 

 wild state, 207. 



Camelopard. See Giraffe. 



Camels, cruelty to, 179 ; fighting, 203 ; 

 Sir Chas, Wilson on their be- 

 haviour at Abu-Klea, 195; unrepre- 

 sented on Egyptian sculptures, 204 ; 

 ■wild, seen in Spain, 175. 



Cape colony, protection of elephants in, 

 253. 



Cariboo, the, 455. 



Cariboo-hunting, 456. 



Carolina, the wolf of, 129. 



Carthage, gorilla skins found by Komans 

 in, 523. 



Carthaginians, African elephants em- 

 ployed by the, 276. 



Cats, the {Felidoi), 10. 



Ceylon, protection of elephants in, 251. 



Chseronea, the lion of, 16. 



Cheetah, the, 85 ; ancient records of, 

 87 ; Arabs hunting with, 92 ; carried 

 to the field on an elephant, 88 ; em- 

 ployed by Frederick II., 96 ; method 

 of huntingwith, 88; when first trained, 

 87 ; accident from a ferocious one, 94. 



Cheetahs, hunting with, fashionable in 

 Europe during middle ages, 98 ; 

 Tippo Sahib's, 100. 



Chewing the cud, 421. 



Chimpanzee, the, 539 ; in Zoological 

 Gardens (Sally), 546. 



China, parks of intelligence in, 3. 



Circus, a rhinoceros escapes in a, 333. 



Colosseum, the, 36. 



Constantinople, a hippopotamus seen in 

 the 16th century in, 243. 



Cook (Captain), discovers the kangaroo, 

 463. 



Coyote, the, 130. 



Cromwell (Oliver), bear-baiting sup- 

 pressed by, 163. 



Crusaders, cheetah-hunting introduced 

 into Europe by the, 96. 



Cumberland (the Duke of), hunts with 

 a cheetah in "Windsor Park, 101. 



Daewin's theory, 561. 



Deer, 429. 



Deer-horns, annual reproduction of, 430. 



Dog, origin of the, 115. 



Dromedary, the (see the Camel), 183. 



Duncombe (Sir Sanders), the bear- 

 baiting monopoly of, 164. 



Durer (Albert), engraving of a rhino- 

 ceros by, 329. 



Eared-Seals, the (Otaria), 494. 



Edgar, methods adopted for the exter- 

 mination of wolves by, 123. 



Edward I., his mandamus respecting 

 wolves, 124. 



Edward II. gives tenure of land for 

 wolf -killing, 124. 



Edward III., bear-baiting disapproved 

 of by, 158. 



Egypt, lions worshipped in, 15; used 

 for hunting in, 33 ; camels not re- 

 presented on the sculptures of, 204 . 



Elephant, the, 249. 



Elephant, the African, 253 ; the Asiatic, 

 250; rogue, 272 ; James I. presented 

 with an, 306. 



Elephants, acting as nurses, 289 ; black, 

 299 ; communication of, 270 ; cruelty 

 of Africans in killing, 254 ; difficulty 

 formerly experienced in destroying, 

 292 ; incorrectly drawn in mediaeval 



