Anchor and Dolphin, 329 André on theory of Creation, 125 Andrew Marvel’s “Loyal Scot,” 69 Andromachus, physician to Nero, 299 Angulo or Hog-fish, 318 Animals in art and fable, 175 “Annals of Winchester,” 269 Anthropophagi, 11, 72 Antipathies, animal, 94, 153, 182, 187, 230, 232, 280, 289 Antipathy and sympathy, 153 Ant’s eggs, oil of, 278 Ants of India, 196 Ape, 122, 153 Apollo and Raven, 241 “Arcana Fairfaxiana,” 279 Arena, lions in the, 123 “Areopagitica,” 225 Ariosto, 207, 224 Aristotle, 30, 31, 55, 302 “Armonye of Byrdes,” 239 Armories, Natural History in, 32, 51, 119, 120, 121 Arms of the City of London, 277 Art, animals in, 175 “Art of simpling,” 188 Asbestos, its supposed nature, 293 Ashmole, diary of, 279 Askham on hare, 165 Asp, 51, 307 “As Pliny saith,” 4, 20 Assyrian seals, 131 Astrological influences, 11 “As you like it,” 208 Aubrey, extract from, 165, 179, 184, 238, 297 Augustine on higher and lower truths, 49 Authors consulted by Pliny, 26 Avicenna on chamæleon, 296 Azores in old map, 39 Bacci on unicorn, 131 Bacon’s “Natural History,” 166 Badge, panther, of King Henry VI., 151 Badger, 198 Bale on scandalous reports, 69 Ballasting of cranes and bees, 260 Bandicoot, 196 Barbary, lions of, 127 Barnacle goose, 214 Barnfield, “Cassandra,” 287 Barrow, “Travels in Africa,” 131 Bartholinus on unicorn, 131 Basilisk, 265, 286, 305 Bay-leaf as medicine, 274 Bearded grapes, 319 Bear, 161, 167, 182 Beaumont and Fletcher, 162, 176 Beaver, oil from the, 278 Bee, 260, 310 Beef, the praise of, 46 Bee-hives attacked by bears, 163 “Belvedere” of Bodenham, 170 Bereus on unicorn, 131 “Bestiare Divin” of Guillaume, 48 Bestiaries of Middle Ages, 31, 50 Blackbird, Sagacity of, 177 Black Swan, 230 “Blazon of Gentrie,” 119, 224 Blood of lion black, 116 Boar, 175 Bœwulf on Mermaid, 80 Boiling river, 43 “Bonduca,” extract from, 162 “Book of Emblems,” 84 “Book of Knowledge,” Winstanley, 183, 248 Boorde’s “Dyetary,” 46 Bosjesmen, ancient Troglodytes, 3, 61 Bossewell’s “Armorie,” 52, 169, 194 Bostock on Pliny, 29 Browne on Vulgar Errors, 56, 92, 106, 157, 162, 178, 205, 255, 267, 284, 313, 328 Buffon on Pliny, 21 Burton, “Miracles of Art and Nature,” 18, 19, 127, 131, 305 Bussy d’Amboise on Unicorn, 130 Butler, Hudibras, extract from, 214 Byron, extract from, 229, 330 Cabbage, the praise of, 47 Camel, 182, 198, 294 Camelopardilis, 124 Camerarius on dolphin, 329 Camillus, “mirror of stones,” 247 Cammetennus, 294 Camoens, extract from, 181 Camphor-tree, 152 Cancer, specific for, 189 Canibali, home of the, 37 “Canterbury Tales,” 276 Capture of elephant, 145 Carbuncle borne by dragon, 274 Carew, extract from, 164 Carlyle on books, 33 Carrier pigeons, 16