MY STRANGE PETS
Emus and Rheas
First Season (1880).
Second Season (1885).
Antwerp Zoo.
Mongoose Hall.
Monkeys.
Marmosets.
Lemur.
Snakes.
Manders' Menagerie.
The Terrible death of a lion-tamer in Bolton
Alligators.
Vipers.
Geckos.
Slow-worms.
"Ether-bells.
Water-newts.
Heather-bleats.
Ghosts.
Ocelots.
Suricates.
Jerboas.
Armadillos.
Mongooses.
Fallow deer.
Foxes.
Badgers.
Arctic Foxes.
Eagles.
Jerfalcons.
Iceland collies.
Bilholm aviary.
Bullfinches.
Yellow ammer.
Rat in aviary.
Waxbills.
Ravens.
Choughs.
Pheasants.
Several birds.
Mountain blackbirds.
Birds starved.
"Cocky."
Castle O'er aviary.
Bleeding heart pigeons and Java sparrows.
Jays; and parrots eating each other.
Sheep-eating parrot.
Paraquet escapes.
A forlorn parrot.
Budgerigars at Castle O'er.
Long fast of birds.
Mandarin ducks and goosanders.
Parrots.
Rare birds in Eskdale.
The golden eagle.
Honey buzzard.
Rough-legged buzzard.
Merlin hawks.
Short-eared owls.
Kingfishers.
Night-jar.
Sand-grouse.
Quails.
Water-rail.
Redshanks.
Dunlin.
Skuas.
Crossbills.
Greater spotted woodpecker.
Solan goose.
Guillemot.
Storm-petrel.
Teal.
Wild-geese.
Wood-lark.
Wood-sand-piper.
Velvet scoter.
Waterhens.
Wild duck's and hen's nests up trees.
Frank Buckland and Mr Bartlett.
Bear escapes.
Lions and tigers.
Stealing cubs.
Sawing off the horn of a rhinoceros.
Brindled collie.
Buckland's lamb
Butcher and lambs.
Mountain finch.
Carlisle fair and storks.
Southport Aquarium.
Buckland's notes.
"'Arrys" torturing animals.
"Gamping" a lion.
Llamas.
Game and shooting.
Professor Aytoun's dog.
Shooting "flukes."
A devoted blackcock.
Ice-flood.
Salmon feeding in fresh water.
Herons.
"Yellow fins.
Gulls in winter.
Gulleries.
Professor Wilson at a Highland loch.
Fairgreve's Menagerie.
Old showmen and the London Fairs.
Sale of Wombwell's Royal No. 1 Menagerie at
Edinburgh.
Albinos.
Rook.
Fly-catcher.
Hedgehog.
Cats: tortoiseshell Tom.
House cats.
Pigeons and rain.
African sheep.
Sheep fasting.
Hedgehogs.
Cry of moles.
Parasites.
Cuckoos.
Woodcocks.
Highlander's wall.
Black snow &c.
Weather gaws.
"Noah's Ark."
Peculiar rainbow.
Krakatoa and sunsets.
Snow appearing green.
Earthquakes.
Plague of voles.
Short-eared owls.
Experiment with poison.
Change in the face of rooks.
Rook with deformed beak.
Stoats.
Weasels.
Caterpillar plague.
Plague of wood pigeons.
Plague of wasps.
Wasps eating bridge.
Woods and forests.
Forts and their connecting trenches in
Eskdalemuir.
Addendum—Scots vocabulary
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