—— attempt to derive the word _elephant_ from, 4 _n._ —— receptacle for, in the stomach, 56 —— quantities withdrawn by the trunk in the corral, 133 Weber’s _Metrical Romance_ of the thirteenth century, 12 _n._ Wells, dug by elephants, 54 White elephant; a lusus naturæ, 23 —— exhibited in Holland in 1633, 24 —— mentioned by Horace at Rome ib. WHITE, GILBERT, of Selborne, on the affection of animals to the young of others, 46 _n._ White oxen worshipped in Egypt, 23 WILKINSON, Sir GARDNER, on the knowledge of the elephant in ancient Egypt, 152 _n._ WOLF, his strange adventures in Ceylon, 31 _n._, 48, 105 _n._ —— on the capture of wild elephants, 96 _n._ —— on the height of the elephant, 31 Wolves suckling children, 46 _n._ Wound of Lieut. Fretz, 90 WRIGHT’S _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, 36 YOUNG, affection for, 47 Young elephants, their conduct when captured, 137 —— their tricks in captivity, 138, 148 YULE, Colonel, on the liability of the elephant to sudden death, 160 _n._ LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE POPULAR WORK ON NATURAL HISTORY BY REV. J. G. WOOD, M.A. Second Edition now ready, in 1 vol. 8vo. price 21_s._ cloth; or, price 27_s._ half-bound in morocco by Rivière, HOMES WITHOUT HANDS: BEING A DESCRIPTION OF THE HABITATIONS OF ANIMALS, CLASSED ACCORDING TO THEIR PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION. By J. G. WOOD, M.A., F.L.S. With about 140 Illustrations engraved on Wood by G. Pearson, from Original Designs made by F. W. Keyl and E. A. Smith, under the Author’s superintendence.