-wolf of Tasmania, 190-194.
Tiney, a pet hare of Cowper's, 216.
Toplady on future state of animals, 312.
Tonton, Walpole's pet dog, 129, 130.
Trained monkeys, 26.
Trenck and the tame mouse in prison, 209.
_Trichechus rosmarus_, 183.
True, on dog being a good judge of eloquence, 127.
Ulysses and his dog, 133.
_Ursus lotor_, why raccoon was so called, 71.
Veal _ad nauseam_, 304
Venison fat, 294.
_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.
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