Part 73

Vulpes lagopus, 142.

Walker, Dr David, on Polar bear, 62.

Wallace, Alfred, on orang-utan, 11; on great ant-eater, 227.

Walpole, Horace, the young lady's pet monkey and her parrot, 33, 34; pet dog Rosette, lines on, 129.

Walrus, history of, 182-188.

Waterton, Charles, letter from, on young gorilla, 18-20; letter to Mrs Wombwell on her young gorilla, 21; "Hanover rats," 202.

Watt, James, on rats' whiskers, 204.

Wellington's story of musk rat, 200.

Whalebone, 315.

Whales, 315, 317.

Whateley, Archbishop, and his dogs, 131, 132; on a cat that rung the bell, 160.

Wild boar, 239-245.

Wilkie, Sir David, and the baby, 3, 4; and the puppy, 133.

William III., his death, as related by Lord Macaulay, 49-56.

Wilson, the American ornithologist, and the mouse, 211.

Windham, Right Hon. William, on Capt. Phipps's Arctic expedition, 67, 68; on the feelings of a baited bull, 313.

Wolf, 135.

Wolf-dog, Hungarian, anecdote of, 102, 103.

Wombat, 193.

Wood, Sandy, and his pets, 298, 299.

Wordsworth on cruelty to horses in Ireland, 275.

Zebra, Lattin's joke, 287.

Zoological Gardens, 249.

THE END.

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