Part 59

Aye-aye, its singular structure and habits, 36-38.

Baboons, Lady Anne Barnard on, 24, 25.

Babylon, bas-relief of dog found at, 86, 87.

Babyrusa, 240.

Back, Sir George, anecdote of Arctic lemming, 196.

Badger, 71; anecdotes of, 72-75.

Baird, origin of name, 241.

Barrentz on white or Polar bear, 64.

Barnard, Lady Anne, pleads for the baboons, 24, 25; on some rabbits, 222.

Bats, fantastic faces of, 38, 39.

Bearable pun, 61.

Bears, 56, 57; anecdotes of, 58-70.

Beechey, Captain, on Polar bear, 63; on the walrus, 184-186, 187.

Bell, Professor, on cats, 149.

Bell, Sir Charles, on the head of a pig, 239.

Bell-Rock horse, 257.

Bentham, Jeremy, and his pet cat, 150-152; and the mice, 205, 206.

Berwickshire, names of places in, derived from swine, 241.

Bess, a pet hare of the poet Cowper's, 216.

Bisset and his trained monkeys, 25, 26; musical cats, 152, 153; trained hares and turtle, 221, 222; learned pig, 250.

Black Dwarf's cat, 157.

Blomfield, Bishop, bitten by a dog, 88.

Boar, wild, 239-245.

Border, cow getting across, 309.

Borneo, the home of the orang, 11.

Boswell imitates the lowing of a cow, 305.

Bradford, Earl of, on the number of legs of a sheep, 296.

Bristol, Bishop of, comparing Cambridge freshmen to puppies, 89.