[Illustration: ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--LONDON.]
ANECDOTES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.
BOSTON: C. H. PEIRCE AND G. C. RAND.
ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM:
BY THE AUTHOR OF PETER PARLEY'S TALES.
BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY RAND AND MANN, No. 3 Cornhill. 1849.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845,
By S. G. GOODRICH,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
PRESS OF GEORGE C. RAND & CO.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION, 9
VERTEBRATA, 10
CLASS MAMMALIA, 10
ORDER I.--BIMANA, 11 Man, 11
ORDER II.--QUADRUMANA, 13 Apes, 14 Orang-Outang, 14 Chimpanse, 22 Gibbon, 23 Baboon, 25 Monkeys, 38
ORDER III.--CARNARIA, 45 Bats, 45 Hedgehog, 47 Mole, 49 Bear, 50 White Bear, 68 Raccoon, 74 Coati, 76 Badger, 76 Glutton, 78 Weasel, 79 Polecat, 85 Ferret, 86 Mink, 86 Marten, 87 Sable, 87 Skunk, 88 Otter, 90 Dog, 92 Wolf, 113 Fox, 118 Hyena, 120 Lion, 122 Tiger, 129 Panther, 132 Leopard, 134 Jaguar, 136 American Panther, 144 Cat, 151
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom
- 2: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom
- 3: 289 Ivory billed Woodpecker
- 4: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom
- 5: The mammalia include not only man
- 6: In the British village of Dumdrudge
- 7: An Orang Outang killed in Sumatra
- 8: An Orang Outang brought to England
- 9: His beverage in Java was water
- 10: She had learnt to heat the oven
- 11: We did not touch them till Kees had tasted them
- 12: Kees was sitting upon my vehicle
- 13: Kees was always the first awake in the morning
- 14: And amused ourselves with hunting large baboons
- 15: Are the residence of innumerable apes
- 16: Pug was a gentleman of excellent humor
- 17: But the latter watched their motions narrowly
- 18: Broke a pane of glass in the wardroom window
- 19: That I had been bitten by the vampyre
- 20: The vampyres have been sucking me to death
- 21: The mole despatched the other two
- 22: And to superintend the baiting
- 23: Bruin threw his weight the other way
- 24: Leopold ordered care to be taken of the little Savoyard
- 25: Both schoolmistress and pupils would fain have been abroad
- 26: As soon as the clucking commenced
- 27: Which he darts into the cavity
- 28: The talons sometimes measure more than six inches
- 29: And was very near the hindmost man
- 30: They levelled their muskets at the cubs
- 31: And placing a piece of kreng within it
- 32: As soon as the raccoon feels them pinch
- 33: And the anguish induces the coati to gnaw more furiously
- 34: The glutton fights desperately
- 35: Was suddenly attacked by six weasels
- 36: While he soars upwards in spiral circles
- 37: Procured a ferret to destroy them
- 38: Was going home from Wethersfield
- 39: The otter is naturally ferocious
- 40: I gave the drover a guinea for him
- 41: Among other remarkable exploits of Sirrah
- 42: Perchance my dog will whine in vain
- 43: The body of the unhappy Aubri was found
- 44: Caniche immediately turned back
- 45: A shepherd on the Grampian Mountains
- 46: For want of Gelert the sport was limited
- 47: While swimming a stream near Malines
- 48: Nor could the firemen trace out his ordinary resting place
- 49: When I was owre lazy to gang to the kirk
- 50: The wolves then descend at leisure
- 51: Renard dropped suddenly down the chimney
- 52: Renard submitted to his destiny with a very good grace
- 53: And closely pursued by the lion
- 54: After the lioness had become a mother
- 55: And examining every bushy place
- 56: The effect of feeding the tiger upon raw flesh
- 57: Although the tigress sometimes destroys her young ones
- 58: The leopard had torn open the jugular vein
- 59: Our guides looked anxiously towards it
- 60: Wharton had scarcely glanced at them
- 61: Who lay stretched out beside his cubs
- 62: He seized Wharton by the thigh
- 63: Passes under the various titles of cougar
- 64: Was a formidable antagonist in an enormous panther
- 65: The panther turned from the bear
- 66: Pincher was in the drawing room
- 67: She ran to the bleeding kitten
- 68: The mewing of the cat excited my wife's attention
- 69: The cat's paw effectually prevented its operation
- 70: After her disappearance from Glasgow
- 71: These trace the opossum to some tree
- 72: I had given Maty Bill liberty to catch another kangaroo
- 73: Than the squirrel leaped to the ground
- 74: Including not only the domestic mouse
- 75: Made some curious experiments upon the dormouse
- 76: A tame Beaver in the Zoological Gardens of London
- 77: The porcupine effected his escape
- 78: The harriers shortly afterwards came in sight
- 79: They again commenced an anthem
- 80: To give my platypus a little recreation
- 81: The tame elephants are again conducted to the enclosure
- 82: A few days before my arrival at Enon
- 83: Which the elephant had picked up
- 84: Who was mounted upon an elephant
- 85: The two huntsmen escaped with difficulty
- 86: A rhinoceros arrived in England
- 87: They endeavor to dishearten the boar
- 88: One day a rabbit having intruded into his sty
- 89: A gamekeeper of Sir Henry Mildmay
- 90: 'I will give you fifty tomans
- 91: Into the midst of the Bavarian ranks
- 92: A large dog attacked the greyhound
- 93: Leggat nor any one else appeared with the horse
- 94: Which in the western prairies is called stampede
- 95: But found its own way from Point de Gat to Gibraltar
- 96: Thomas Brown travelled in England as a pedler
- 97: The most docile zebra on record was burnt at the Lyceum
- 98: They had hired an Ababde guide
- 99: The stag is said to love music
- 100: The reindeer being an inquisitive animal
- 101: The giraffe has become familiar to us
- 102: There were at least forty goats
- 103: Cotton kept a great many sheep
- 104: The fluter played with additional skill
- 105: The bison is in general a shy animal
- 106: Who is disguised in a bison skin
- 107: Generous dolphins love the rocky shore
- 108: An English harpooner struck a cub
- 109: On which occasion the condor seizes this member
- 110: Of this common species of hawk
- 111: The sickle entered under the left wing
- 112: Upon which the owl repeated the attack
- 113: Genghis in consequence escaped
- 114: But the intrepid bird redoubles his exertions
- 115: Found it to be the nest of a wren
- 116: The wren became unsettled in its habits
- 117: With trembling and deep respirations
- 118: And asked the person who had purchased the bulfinch
- 119: And from thence let the mussels drop upon stones
- 120: We are informed by Plutarch of a magpie
- 121: Having caught a jay in the winter season
- 122: Of the woodpecker there are several species
- 123: And ran towards the cage of the parrot
- 124: The dog ran on a brood of very small pheasants
- 125: Took a pigeon for his companion
- 126: The trees tenanted by the herons
- 127: That it was only a troop of red flamingoes
- 128: The goose always accompanied him
- 129: Isaaco had recourse to the same expedient
- 130: The alligator would lay himself down
- 131: The bull frogs had swallowed all the young ducks
- 132: The mackerel is one of the most voracious of all fishes
- 133: So dense and forcible was the shoal
- 134: Felt one of his feet in the grasp of a squid
- 135: I picked up every snail carefully
- 136: Troops of little fleets of scallops
- 137: When a glowworm is put into a phial
- 138: Gleditsch continued to add other small dead animals
- 139: The grillo had begun to ring its shrill rattle
- 140: And a number of caterpillars were placed at the bottom
- 141: The smell of which is very prejudicial
- 142: Which is the product of the marine polypi
- 143: Lives of famous american indians
- 144: Should place Parley's Cabinet Library within their reach
- 145: We cordially recommend the work to the perusal of all
- 146: Parley's Cabinet Library is worthy of all encouragement