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THE FAUNA IN THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
ADDER Vipera berus
The Assignation 2:119/23
Pinakidia 7:49/5
The Coliseum [M] (A, B, C, D, F, K)1:299/variant 22
Politian [M] 1:286/28 “On bed of moss lies gloating the foul adder.”
ALBATROSS Diomedeidae
Ms. Found in a Bottle 2:3/31 “The great petrel was large as the common albatross.”
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/19/20/29; 155/2/8; 156/9/11/15/32 “The nest of the albatross is constructed”; 157/6 “Immense numbers of albatross”; 166/29; 174/18; 179/18; 190/8; 195/17
Al Aaraaf 7:33/28/33
Fairy-Land 7:35/5
Ants (Messor semirufus)
ANT — LION-ANT Messor semirufus [page 56:]
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:49/5
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:92/28
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:288/9
Eureka 16:201/18
Instinct vs. Reason [M] 2:478/14 “The habits of the lion-ant, spiders and beaver have analogy to the usual operations of the reason of man.”
Antelope (Antilpe addax)
ANTELOPE Antilopaddax
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/1 “the legs slender as those of the antelope”
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:42/21; 43/16; 44/24; 58/15; 59/18; 69/19; 72/12/20/23; 73/13/31; 74/22; 75/10; 80/13; 94/1
“Thou Art The Man” 5:304/16 [page 57:]
APE Pongidae
Four Beasts in One 2:208/19
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:191/9
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:170/15
ARCTIC BEAR Ursa Arctus
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:675/25 “a gigantic creature of the race of the arctic bear”
Wild Ass (Equus hemionus)
ASS Equus hemionus
Lionizing 2:41/18/19
The Business Man 4:123/7/25
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:11/19; 14/28; 15/16; 18/14
The Partisan (R) 8:150/13
Spain Revisited (R) 9:5/14/19/30; 7/6/25/31/34; 8/14/18; 9/32; 10/28; 11/1
A Year In Spain (R) 9:83/25 [page 58:]
William Cullen Bryant (R) 9:274/12
Sketches of Living Characters (R) 10:137/33
The Quacks of Helicon (R) 10:194/21
Flaccus (R) 11:173/32
William Ellery Channing (R) 11:177/13
America Drama 13:71/14
Pinakidia 14:49/4
The Rationale of Verse 14:243/10
Marginalia 16:83/6/18; 91/18; 145/28
Letters 17:246/29; 253/15; 256/11; 257/22
Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! [M] 1:12/88
A Reviewer Reviewed [M] 3:1377/27
BABOON Papio
Lionizing 2:41/9 “Sir! You are a baboon.”
Four Beasts in One 2:208/20
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:273/28
Mystification 4:112/18
The Spectacles 5:204/23
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:76/11
Stanley Thorn (R) 11:11/20
Mr. Hudson (R) 13:27/14
Letters 17:241/14
BADGER Taxidea taxus
BARNACLE Lepadidae
BARRACOUTA — BARRACUDA Sphyraena barracuda
The Edinburgh Review (R) 7:84/19/23
Bat (Chiroptera)
BAT Chiroptera
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:104/38; 105/24
The Coliseum 7:56/19
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:303/12
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:172/15
Richard Adams Locke (R) 15:127/25; 132/28; 133/4
Politian 7:60 “A secret vigil holds the swarthy bat.” [page 59:]
BEAGLE Breed of Canis familiaris
The Wigwam and the Cabin (R) 13:94/13/18
Bear (Ursus syriacus)
BEAR Ursus syriacus
Four Beasts in One 2:212/28 “There is not a bear's cub in Epidaphe.”
A Descent into the Maelstrom 2:230/33 “A bear once was caught by the stream.”
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:52/12/13; 175/25; 176/12/13
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:18/13; 31/15; 33/17; 89/8; 97/29; 98/9; 99/28
Paul Ulric (R) 8:187/24
Elkswatawa (R) 9:123/2 “The bear, tiger, Indian and snake stories will be the better portions of Elkswatawa.”
Orion (R) 11:269/14
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1096/9 [page 60:]
BEAVER Castor canadensis
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:44/25
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:31/15; 33/16; 43/27; 45/18; 45/26; 46/1/21; 47/31; 48/17/31; 49/7/15; 50/18/25; 57/2; 66/19; 79/32; 80/1/5; 85/14; 86/20; 89/9
Instinct vs. Reason [M] 1:478/15 “The habits of lion-ants, spiders and beaver have an analogy to the usual operations of the reason of man.”
Astoria (R) 9:229/34 “the cavalcade laden with bear traps” 233/8/12; “The head waters of the Columbia abound in beavers” 236/7/24; 237/6; 239/19; 240/6/19
BECHE DE MER Gasteropoda pulmonifera
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:184/13; 185/3; 193/25; 194/5 [page 61:]
Address (R) 9:308/22 “Our trade in ivory, in sandalwood, in beche de mer, in quills, in sea oil ... may be profitably extended.” Instinct vs. Reason [M] 2:478/15
Bees (Apis fasciata)
BEE Apis casciata
King Pest 2:148/12
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:49/5
The Gold-Bug 5:140/1
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:167/23
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:94/22
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:290/27; 293/32;
William Cullen Bryant (R) 9:282/18; 287/2; 291/9 found in Bryant's poem “The Prairie” in “Early Criticism” by Poe
Flaccus (R) 11:172/2
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:170/21; 171/7/18
Alice Ray (R) 12:260/25
William Cullen Bryant (R) 13:136/20
The Poetic Principle 14:278/25
Caroline M. Kirkland (R) 15:85/27 [page 62:]
Summer and Winter (R) [M] 1:5/12 “The hum of bees is hushed.”
Instinct vs. Reason [M] 2:478/32/34; 479/3; “an immensely wonderful consideration connected with the cell of the bee in such a cell as the bee wants.”
BEEF Flesh of Cattle
BEETLE Coleoptera
The Gold-Bug 5:100/13; 106/15; 107/9; 110/2; 112/21/27; 113/34; 114/7/20; 115/20; 117/26; 123/23; 125/14; 127/28; 141/12
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:314/12
Fitz-Greene Halleck (R) 11:200/34
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:177/4
A Reviewer Reviewed [M] 3:1383/17/19/19
BIG HORN SHEEP Ovis canadensis
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:89/8
BIRD OF PARADISE Paradiseidae
Bon-Bon 2:130/24 “his tout ensemble ... difficult to say whether Pierre Bon-Bon was indeed a bird of Paradise or a very Paradise of Perfection”
Fifty Suggestions 14:173/7
BISON Bison
BITTERN Botaurus stellaris
BLACKFISH Globiceiphala
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/21
BOAR Aper
Metzengerstein 2:192/33
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:23/1/1 [page 63:]
The Sphinx 6:240/31
Orion (R) 11:269/20
Songs of Our Land (R) 12:258/15; 13:104/29
Mary E. Hewitt 15:290/12
A Tale of Jerusalem [M] 2:41/8 “The Romans avoided in piety, since for them a boar, a ram and a bull were acceptable sacrificial victims offered in purification ceremony... .”
BOBOLINK Dolichonyx oryziverus
Landor's Cottage 6:267/4
BRANT Branta
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:69/20
BREAK-BONES — OSPREY PETREL Procellariiformes
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/22
BUCK A male animal
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:36/19; 37/24; 80/12
The Business Man 4:131/27
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:62/12
A Pleasant Peregrination (R) 9:40/8
BUFFALO Bubalus bubalus
A Descent into the Maelstrom 2:228/12 “like the moaning of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie”
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:18/14; 33/18; 39/14; 51/12; 58/6/19/33; 59/1/18; 69/18; 73/17; 80/28/32; 82/8; 89/8; 93/34
The Sphinx 6:240/29
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:168/5
Letters 17:249/7
BULL The Male of any species of cattle
Lionizing 2:39/23
Loss of Breath 2:156/24
King Pest 2:173/17 “bull roaring in basso”
Four Beasts in One 2:207/18
A Predicament 2:283/5
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:170/14
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:71/25 [page 64:]
The Partisan (R) 8:154/10
The American in England 8:221/20/20
Sketches of Switzerland 9:163/31
Night and Morning (R) 10:118/31
Wakondah (R) 11:29/7
Barnaby Rudge (R) 11:60/3
The Drama of Exile (R) 12:6/26; 7/3; 11/11
A Tale of Jerusalem [M] 2:41/9 “A boar, a ram and a bull were offered in the great purification ceremony.”
BULLDOG A breed of Canis familiaris
BULLOCK A castrated bull
BUTTERFLY Lepidoptera
Ligeia 2:252/25
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:209/9
The Island of the Fay 4:197/19
Mesmeric Revelations 5:250/14
The Fairy-Land 7:45/19
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:290/28; 293/34; 299/8
James Russell Lowell (R) 11:248/28
The Poetic Principle 14:278/23
Loss of Breath [M] 2:71/1 “To him a pas de papillon has been an abstract conception.”
BUZZARD Buteo buteo
CALF Young of the cattle breeds
A Tale of Jerusalem 2:219/6 “It is a fatted calf from the pastures of Bashan” said the Pharisee.”
The Man Who Was Used Up 3:261/7
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:63/15 [page 65:]
Camel (Camelus dromedarius)
CAMEL Camelus dromedarius
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:153/6
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:97/9
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:20/14/33
CANARY Serinus canorius
Landor's Cottage 6:267/5 “From arms of this tree hung cages of different kinds. In one a mocking bird, in another an oriole, in a third, the impudent bobolink — while three or four more delicate prisons were loudly vocal with canaries.”
Tales and Sketches (R) 8:161/29
George P. Morris (R) 10:42/31
Zanoni 11:121/24
Marginalia 16:28/29; 138/8 [page 66:]
CAPE PIGEON Daplion capense
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/16
CAPON A castrated Cock
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:280/3
CAT — PUSS — CHAT Felis libyca domestica
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:55/27; 68/17; 69/11; 71/5; 74/32; 78/5; 81/6/7/34
Loss of Breath 2:153/24; 159/3
A Predicament 2:283/7 “Cats they caterwauled”
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:180/7
A Devil in the Belfry 3:250/29; 255/32; 257/8
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling 4:119/24; 120/7
The Business Man 4:132/31; 133/17/8
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:173/7
The Black Cat 5:143/title; 144/18/24/28; 146/5; 148/7/23; 150/12
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:164/4
Diddling 5:210/2
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:80/17/30/30/34; 86/16; 100/8
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:63/30
Mellonta Tauta 6:199/29
Boston and the Bostonians 8:12/29
Stanley Thorn (R) 11:11/19
Wakondah (R) 11:37/26
Flaccus (R) 11:173/14
The Songs of Our Land (R) 13:104/8
A Chapter of Suggestions 14:189/29
Marginalia 16:63/5
A Decided Loss [M] 2:57/25 “Two cats entering at a hole in the wall ...”
Instinct vs. Reason — “A Black Cat” [M] 2:477/title; 479/9/11
“The writer is the owner of one of the most remarkable black cats in the world”; 479/12/18 “Black cats are all of them witches.”
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1095/1/2/3/6/8/11/12/28/29/30/33/35/38/40/40/40; 1096/2/3/5/8/9/12/12/20/22/24/27/32/34/36/36; 1097/1/2/3/6/7 [page 67:]
CATTYMOUNT — CATAMOUNT Felis concolor
The Premature Burial 5:272/2
CATERPILLAR The worm-like lava of a butterfly or moth
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:197/19
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:88/27; 89/35
The Magazine Prison-House 14:162/5
CENTIPEDE Scolopandra cinqualata
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:287/6
CHAMOIS Ripicapra rupicapra
Tamerlane [M] 1:28/43 “when after a day of perilous strife with chamois”
CHICKEN A young fowl, hen, cock — Gallus domesticus
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:279/2/4; 280/1
Diddling 5:210/17/19; 211/5
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:67/20/25; 68/31
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:97/13
The Angel of the Odd 6:107/5/7/98
Paul Ulric (R) 8:204/26
The American in England (R) 8:217/10
Letters 17:245/20
CHIMPANZEE Simia satyrus
CHRYSALIS The pupa of insects, especially of butterflies and moths
Cock (Gallus domesticus)
COCK — CHANTICLEER The male of birds, especially of domestic ones Gallus domesticus
Lionizing 2:39/22
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:214/6
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:66/31/34; 75/34; 76/3
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:80/10; 87/21
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/14
Voices of the Night (R) 10:79/29 [page 68:]
Charles O’Malley (R) 11:94/18/22/27/31/33; 95/13
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:172/4
Thomas Hood (R) 12:215/11
The American Drama 13:65/2
The Philosophy of Furniture 14:103/34
The Philosophy of Composition 14:109/9
COCK-CHAFER Melolontha vulgaris
COCKLE Cardium edule
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:290/31
CODFISH Gadus morrhus
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:192/8 [page 69:]
CONCH Strombus pugilis
Zinzendorff, and Other Poems (R) 8:132/27
A Synopsis of Natural History 10:26/3/18
The Conchologist's First Book 14:95/title/16/18; 96/5/28; 97/2/25/31; 98/11/33; 99/7/16
Letters 17:277/19
CONDOR Vultur gyrphus
The Assignation 2:110/26
Ligeia 2:256/29
Romance 7:40/11
The Conqueror Worm 7:87/15
Introduction [M] 1:157/35 “O, then the eternal Condor years” (1831).
CONGER EEL Conger conger
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/21
CONUS CEDO NULLI A conch
The Conchologist's First Book 14:97/32
CORAL — CORALIFERI — ZOOPHITES Madre poraria
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:198/8
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:49/5
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:173/4
The Conchologist's First Book 14:100/15
Instinct vs. Reason [M] 2:478/20 “of lofty species of instinct the coral-worm affords a remarkable instance”
CORMORANT Phalacrocorax
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:12/8
COURSER A war horse
Metzengerstein 2:188/19
Drake-Halleck 8:288/13; 291/18
Poe's Reply to his Critics 8:336/5/8/9
Spain Revisited (R) 9:11/5/17/20/21
COW The mature female of the genus Bos
Lionizing 2:39/25
A Predicament 2:283/7 “Cows they loved”
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:96/30 [page 70:]
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/10
The American in England (R) 8:117/11
Sheppard Lee (R) 9:127/10
William Ellery Channing (R) 11:188/5/8/26
The American Drama 13:71/5
CRAB A crustacean of the order Decapuda
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:145/14
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:11/3/8/9/19/22/25/30; 12/8; 13/5/18; 14/19; 15/16; 16/31; 18/12; 20/4/15/21/24; 21/1; 22/23; 23/6/10/16/35
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:288/25; 289/7
The Quacks of Helicon (R) 10:189/23
Marginalia 16:173/23
Crane (Grus grus)
CRANE A bird of the family Gruidae Grusgrus
The Partisan (R) 8:152/1 [page 71:]
CREPUSCULARIA A family of Lepidopteria
The Sphinx 6:243/17
CRICKET Gryllus domesticas
The Tell-Tale Heart 5:90/34
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:290/23; 303/13
Voices of the Night (R) 10:79/31
The Longfellow War 12:92/18
CROCODILE Crocodilus nileticus
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym [M] 1:335/18
CROW Corvus brachyrhynchos
Loss of Breath 2:157/17/25
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:101/9
Diddling 5:211/8
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:66/33
The Angel of the Odd 6:112/26; 115/3
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/1
George P. Morris (R) 10:44/33
Powhatan (R) 10:166/19
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:172/10
Thomas Hood (R) 12:215/10
The American Drama 13:65/3
Marginalia 16:140/8
A Decided Loss [M] 2:57/9 “the landlord of the Three Crows”; 58/6 “He lay in the hangman's cart under the windows of THE THREE CROWS.”
CRUSTACEAN Crustacea
The Conchologist's First Book 14:97/5/8
CUCKOO Cuculus canorus
Marginalia 16:83/6/9
CUTTLE-FISH Sepiidae
Eureka 16:204/11
CYGNET A young bird of the family Anatidae
DADDY-LONG-LEGS An arachnid of the order Plalangida
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:17/23/25; 18/3; 19/4/26/29; 20/12
DEATH’S HEAD SPHINX MOTH Crepuscularia lepidoptera
The Sphinx 6:243/26
DEATH WATCH Afropus pulsatorius
The Tell-Tale Heart 5:90/17
DEER A ruminant of the family Cervidae
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:26/32; 33/18; 39/17; 41/32; 43/16; 59/18; 69/19/19; 89/8; 95/1
“Thou Art The Man” 5:300/31
Landor's Cottage 6:263/19/34
Wakondah (R) 11:35/5/8
Wyandotte 11:205/title
Pinakidia 14:41/18
Fifty Suggestions 14:181/17
The Poetic Principle 14:282/19
Sarah Margaret Fuller (R) 15:80/10
Marginalia 16:77/14
DOG-CHIEN Canis familiaris
Bon-Bon 2:129/12/16/31; 132/29; 136/26/31; 142/20
Loss of Breath 2:153/25; 160/17; 162/16; [M] 2:71/5 “In the dog-days his days had been the days of a dog.”
Metzengerstein 2:186/1
The Duc De L’Omelette 2:198/4
A Tale of Jerusalem 2:217/12
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:275/12
A Predicament 2:283/8
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:6/33; 29/20; 34/24; 39/17; 52/12; 58/12; 61/11; 94/11; 95/1; 180/8
The Devil in the Belfry 3:250/13
The Man That Was Used Up 3:270/25
William Wilson 3:324/10
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:18/10; 20/16; 31/10; 32/15; 37/23; 40/25; 41/7; 45/23; 47/30; 52/19 [page 73:]
The Business Man 4:131/14
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:215/8; 226/5
Three Sundays in a Week 4:230/28/34
The Gold-Bug 5:107/30; 116/1; 118/25; 120/26; 129/19
The Black Cat 5:144/6/17; 145/12
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:166/11
Diddling 5:217/26/28/31/34; 222/34
The Premature Burial 5:271/23
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:68/18
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:85/19; 86/16; 100/8
The Angel of the Odd 6:103/18
X-ing a Paragrab 6:333/11
Landor's Cottage 6:268/22
Scenes from “Politian” 7:60/32
The Infidel 8:35/32
Paul Ulric (R) 8:91/9
The Linwoods (R) 8:97/34
The Pirate of the Gulf (R) 9:14/17
Eklswatawa (R) 9:117/2
Sheppard Lee (R) 9:127/9/10; 130/15/23; 131/31
Charles Dickens (R) 10:152/13/24
Joseph Rushbrook (R) 10:199/9/10
Ballads and Other Poems (R) 11:69/32
Drama of Exile (R) 12:14/32; 20/28
Coxe's Saul (R) 12:244/14
Alice Ray (R) 12:261/21
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (R) 13:87/22
Peter Snook (R) 14:85/18
A Chapter of Suggestions 14:89/27
Caroline M. Kirkland (R) 15:86/23
Marginalia 16:7/24; 84/7; 155/17; 159/9; 166/7; 169/26; 173/20
A Dream [M] 2:8/18 “No sound except the yell of the wild dog”
The Bargain Lost [M] 2:91/30 “Our hero kicking the large water-dog asleep under his chair”
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1091/13; 1092/31; 1096/9
Theatrical Rats [M] 3:1244/1/4/8/16
The Light-House [M] 3:1319/8
How to Write a Blackwood Article [M] 2:341/6 “On your way home you may be bitten by a mad dog.” [page 74:]
Mellonta Tauta 6:209/8 “As for Republicanism no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth — unless we except the case of the “prairie dog” which demonstrates that democracy is a very admirable form of government — for dogs.”
A Decided Loss [M] 2:54/25 “The fat water-dog wheezed.”
DOLPHIN Delphinus dolphis
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/21
DONKEY mulos onikos
Diddling 5:217/18
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:62/15; 75/29
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:89/31
Marginalia 16:19/17
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1092/2
The Bargain Lost [M] 3:1092/2
DOVE Birds of the family Columbidae
Scenes from “Politian” 7:63/15
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:318/2
Fitz-Greene Halleck (R) 11:202/14
Drama of Exile (R) 12:17/20; 18/1/9
The Longfellow War 12:99/20
William W. Lord (R) 12:151/21
The Lost Pleiad (R) 12:206/12
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (R) 13:89/3
The Sacred Mountain (R) 13:204/29
Frances S. Osgood (R) 15:102/29
Autography 15:190/17
Marginalia 16:123/22
Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! [M] 1:11/67
DRAGONFLY Di plax elisa
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:84/16
DROMEDARY Camelus dromedarius
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:133/7
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:101/21
Mellonta Tauta 6:213/10
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:20/14 [page 75:]
DUCK CANVASBACK Nyroca valisineria
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:270/23
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/15/34; 190/16; 195/4
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:12/18; 20/6
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:84/26
Landor's Cottage 6:263/20
The Partisan (R) 8:151/33
George Balcombe (R) 9:264/24
Boston and the Bostonians 13:11/15
Maelzel's Chess Player 14:8/27; 9/3/7
Peter Snook (R) 14:78/23/24
The Magazine Prison-House 14:163/24
EAGLE Aquila
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:108/29
The Assignation 2:121/7
Tamerlane 7:7/15
The Coliseum 7:56/18
To One in Paradise 7:86/18
The Distressed Gentleman (R) 9:9/5; 27/20
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:305/26; 306/2/2
Watkins Tottle (R) 9:46/28
Drama of Exile (R) 12:17/20; 18/10; 27/24
Frances Sargent Osgood (R) 13:110-21; 15:274/1
The Poetic Principle 14:276/15
Eureka 16:190/5
Tamerlane [M] (F)1:51/193 “the eagle that towered”; (F)1:53/234 “the lightning of his eagle eye”; (H)1:59/187 same as 51/193; 61/239; same as 53/234
Politian [M] 1:286/23 “Here where the mimic eagle glared in gold”
Fragment of a Campaign Song [M] (A)1:341/1 “See the white eagle soaring aloft to the sky”; 342/1 “then here's the white eagle, full daring is he.”
A Remarkable Letter [M] 2:1311/32
EEL Anguilla
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/21
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:84/29
X-ing a Paragrab 6:231/17 [page 76:]
EGG An Ovum
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:11/34; 156/14/25/30; 184/7; 195/18
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:216/20
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:21/24/29
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:8/30
Letters 17:166/30/34
ELEPHANT Elephas maximus
Loss of Breath 2:162/3
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:132/19
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:170/8
The Sphinx 6:140/36
ELEPHANT FISH Callorhynchus callorhynchus
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/22
ELK Cervus canadensis
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:17/6; 18/15; 33/18; 42/21; 44/24; 58/19/30; 59/18; 69/19; 79/31; 80/10; 89/9; 94/1
The Elk 5:156/title; 161/14/31; 162/3/18/22/24
ENTOZOA Intestinal worms
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:96/32
EPHEMERON Ephemeridae
Eleonora 4:240/15
ERMINE Mustela erminea
Metzengerstein 2:188/14
FALCON Falco peregrinus
The Hawks of Hawk Hollow (R) 8:65/32; 66/5; 67/15/19/30/33; 63/10/16; 69/1/26/29/32
George P. Morris (R) 10:45/19
Frances S. Osgood (R) 13:23/19
Marginalia 16:140/28
FAUN — FAWN Young of the family Cervidae
The Oval Portrait 4:248/2
The Book of Gems 9:100/25; 102/13/18/24; 103/3
Orion (R) 11:271/31
Old English Poetry (R) 12:143/25; 144/35; 145/4/22 [page 77:]
The Lost Pleiad (R) 12:206/11
FIREFLY Photuris pennsylvanica
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:71/14
FISH Any of numerous cold-blooded, water-breathing vertebrates
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:39/10; 69/21; 85/10; 89/9
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:71/34
Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! [M] 1:11/30/59
The Folio Club [M] 2:205/20 “Member Mr. Solomon Seadrift had every appearance of a fish.”
FISHER Martes pennanti
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:33/18
FLAMINGO Phoenicopterus ruber
Eleonora 4:242/2
FLEA Siphonaptera
FLEECE The coat of wool that covers certain animals
FLOUNDER Pseudopleureneles amerikanus
Fly (Musca)
FLY Any insect of the order Diptera — Musca
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:105/16
The Duc De L’Omelette 2:198/31
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:2/19/24; 3/19; 9/6/31; 10/14; 11/3/8/11/12/21/24/29; 16/3; 19/3/19; 21/2; 22/14
Tamerlane 7:9/4
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:287/10
The Quacks of Helicon (R) 10:186/9
Richard Adams Locke (R) 15:132/19 [page 78:]
Tamerlane [M] (H)1:53/233 “no tiniest fly”; (H)1:61/238 “no mote may shun — no tiniest fly”
Fairy-Land [M] 1:162/35 “the motes, and dust, and flies”
FLYING FISH Cypselurus heterurus
Landor's Cottage 6:262/15
FOWL — WATER FOWL Any large or edible bird
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/6/15; 195/4
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:85/11; 89/9
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:95/4/9/13/17
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/10
Landor's Cottage 6:262/24
William Cullen Bryant (R) 9:297/15
Wakondah (R) 11:34/35
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:176/16
The Philosophy of Composition 14:207/10
Letters 17:202/24
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” (R) 10:8/28
FOX — REYNARD — KITT FOX Vulpis fulva
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:20/15; 33/17; 89/9
Diddling 5:211/9 [page 79:]
The Domain of Arnheim 6:177/24
The Edinburgh Review (R) 8:82/11/21/22/23; 83/1/4
Georgia Scenes (R) 8:265/5
Posthumous Memoirs (R) 9:175/3; 179/21
Astoria (R) 9:224/29
Night and Morning (R) 10:120/7
Orion (R) 11:269/22
Frog (Rana punctata)
FROG Rana punctata
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling 4:118/10; 120/8
Diddling 5:222/33
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:64/26; 75/26
Hop-Frog 6:title/1; 217/19/22/26/32; 218/8/10/13/22/28/32/33; 219/19/24/27/29/31; 220/3/23/28; 222/14; 223/3/13/25; 224/19; 226/26; 228/15
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/12
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:265/18
Flaccus (R) 11:164/14
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:177/4
Boston and the Bostonians 13:5/12; 6/8/17; 7/19/32; 8/3/8/10/15; 9/4; 11/16; 12/33
Big Abel (R) 13:76/32 [page 80:]
The Rationale of Verse 14:265/18
Letters 17:249/10; 271/31; 330/29/31; 333/3; 343/31
Model Verses [M] 1:394/8: Revision of example 8
A Decided Loss [M] 2:54/9 “a spasmodic action of the muscles of the throat — thus the race of frogs”
Loss of Breath [M] 2:78/28 “I was with Aristophanes, a frog.”
GANDER An adult male goose
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:21/24
Zinzendorff and Other Poems (R) 8:123/15
Georgia Scenes (R) 8:258/4; 262/32/34; 263/10/16/23; 264/2
Marginalia 16:19/18
GANNET Movis bassana
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/17
GANZA — GOOSE Anserinae
GAZELLE Gazella dorcas
Ligeia 2:251/12
GLOW-WORM Lampyrus noctiluca
GNAT Simulicum
Marginalia 16:18/1/3/4
GOAT Capra hircus mambrica
Four Beasts in One 2:208/13
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:161/1; 162/10
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:69/19/20; 79/32
The Gold-Bug 5:128/23/24/26
Philothes (R) 9:147/3/6
Literary Small Talk 14:92/19/25/26
GOLDFISH Upeneus maculatus
The Black Cat 5:144/17 [page 81:]
Goose (Branta ruficullis)
GOOSE — GEESE Anserinae
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:85/31
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling 4:116/12
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:1/1; 6/10/17; 7/3/16; 8/33; 10/14; 12/6; 14/11; 15/5; 16/20; 17/32; 24/22/28/33/34; 25/6/13/16/17/30; 26/21
The Angel of the Odd 6:106/3
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/18
The Heroine (R) 8:81/13
Norman Leslie (R) 8:57/8
Georgia Scene (R) 8:258/4
A Pleasant Peregrination (R) 9:40/21
Rufus Dawes (R) 11:137/25
Boston and the Bostonians 13:3/9
Literary Small Talk 14:92/20/25/27
GOSLING A young goose
A Pleasant Peregrination (R) 9:40/22
GRAMPUS Orcinus orca
GRASSHOPPER Melanoplus spretus
The Man That Was Used Up 34:263/26 [[3:263/26]]
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling 4:116/27
GRIZZLY BEAR Ursus horrililis
Astoria (R) 11:231/6
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:52/12
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:63/30; 64/14/16; 65/20/23; 66/27
GROUSE Galliformes
GUDGEON Gobio gobio
Three Sundays in a Week 4:229/13
GULL Larus
Ms. Found in a Bottle 2:12/12
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:112/27; 154/18
The Light-House [M] 3:1391/18
GURNARDS Trigla hirundo
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/23
HAKE Phycis chuss
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/22
HALIBUT Hippoglossus hippoglossus
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:80/4
HAM Meat from the buttocks of an animal, especially the pig
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:24/2; 34/28; 42/23; 44/5; 131/20; 134/17; 136/17; 192/10
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:63/32
Letters 17:166/20
Hare (Lepus syriacus)
HARE Lepus syriacus
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:63/19
Barnaby Rudge 11:42/8/12/16; 43/19/27/29; 44/4/25/30; 45/3/9/24/30; 46/2/6/22/34; 47/4/31; 48/2/13/28/31; 49/10/16; 50/6; 52/15; 54/14; 56/4/18/25; 57/12; 61/13/28 [page 83:]
HAWK Falco peregrinus
King Pest 2:169/15
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:58/13
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:19/20/22/27/29/30/34; 21/7/22; 22/24
The Hawks of Hawk Hollow (R) 8:63/title/4/13/16; 64/24; 65/2/3/11/11/21; 66/1/3; 67/15/20/25; 68/4/13; 70/17/17; 72/15/15; 73/9
Ecclesiastical History (R) 8:239/19; 240/10/22/31; 241/10; 242/9; 243/5; 244/12; 250/18/24
William Cullen Bryant (R) 9:282/25; 13:135/26
Charles Anthon (R) 15:36/29
Lewis Gaylord Clark (R) 15:115/28
Autography 15:180/20
HEN A female fowl
Diddling 5:211/5
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:97/7/13
New Comedy and Mrs. Mowatt 12:116/21
HERRING Clupea harengus
Cardinal de Richelieu (R) 9:168/9 [page 84:]
Twice Told Tales (R) 11:102/24
HIND A female deer
A Remarkable Letter [M] 3:1313/16
HIPPOPOTAMUS Hippopotamus amphibius
Silence — A Fable 2:223/4
HOG A domestic pig
A Tale of Jerusalem 2:219/14
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:162/9; 189/33; 193/6; 195/19
Diddling 5:222/32
The Angel of the Odd 6:111/4
Mellonta Tauta 6:202/1/7/16/26; 203/2/17
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/11
Wyandotte (R) 11:213/28
Peter Snook (R) 14:80/4/13
Eureka 16:189/5/12/26; 190/6/17/34; 191/15/26; 195/33; 197/28; 219/22/23
Letters 17:249/1
A Remarkable Letter [M] 3:1311/10/21/33; 1312/6/21/34; 1316/14; 1317/29
HOMO-CAMELEOPARD A giraffe — Giraffa camelopardalis
Four Beasts in One 2:203/sub-title/8; 210/13; 211/16/29; 212/19/22
HORNET Vespa
Horse (Equus caballus)
HORSE — CHEVAL — MARE Equus caballus
Lionizing 2:39/22
Metzengerstein 2:186/1/10; 187/3; 188/31/33; 190/10/11/21/30/34; 192/28; 194/1; 196/6
A Predicament 2:283/7 “Horses they neighed”
The Man That Was Used Up 3:271/22
The Fall of the House of Usher 3:273/7; 277/10
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:32/3/7; 40/15/16; 52/14; 62/9
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:154/30
Diddling 5:217/14
The Premature Burial 5:259/29 [page 85:]
“Thou Art The Man” 5:290/15/19; 293/11/25; 296/6; 302/12; 307/11
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:54/19
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:89/24; 96/29; 97/11
Mellonta Tauta 6:200/7; 204/13
Horse Shoe Robinson (R) 8:4/title/15; 8/6/7; 11/23
Norman Leslie (R) 8:54/18/25; 59/34
The Partisan (R) 8:149/17
Paul Ulric (R) 8:197/30
Georgia Scenes (R) 8:258/5; 260/25/27; 262/34; 263/4/21; 264/1
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:290/30
Poe's Reply to his Critics 8:335/26/30/31/34; 336/3/4/14/16/20/26/31
Spain Revisited (R) 9:5/11; 11/3/7/8/15/16/19/24; 12/4/6/9
A Pleasant Peregrination (R) 9:38/6
The Doctor (R) 9:69/10
A Year in Spain (R) 9:82/14/21/23; 83/14
Sheppard Lee (R) 9:127/11
Astoria (R) 9:229/24/32; 230/13/18; 232/21; 233/3; 237/31
George Balcombe (R) 9:255/18
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” (R) 10:23/2
Undine (R) 10:39/4
The Damsel of Darien (R) 10:54/31
Visits to Remarkable Places 10:112/19
Night and Morning 10:125/2
Stanley Thorn (R) 11:11/15
Charles O’Malley (R) 11:91/33
Fitz-Greene Halleck (R) 11:194/26
Drama of Exile 12:25/8
The Longfellow War 12:94/8
The Drama 12:212/25/28
Thomas Hood (R) 12:222/16
The American Drama 13:57/28; 64/3; 65/6
Maelzel's Chess Player 14:6/26; 7/4/16
Street Paving 14:165/27; 167/6/8
Prosper M. Wetmore (R) 15:89/26
Autography 15:184/25
Marginalia 16:135/10
Letters 17:27/28 [page 86:]
Loss of Breath [M] 2:81/5 “I could hear the solemn breathing of the horses of death.”
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1089/30; 1090/19; 1093/9/10/11/11/12/16/20/38
A Remarkable Letter [M] 3:1314/??
Letter dated May 27, 1844 [G] :43/17
Letter dated June 4, 1844 [G] :47/24
Editorial in The Public Ledger [G] :79/30 to page 88
Eureka 16:193/3
HOUND Breed of Canis familiaris
HUMMINGBIRD Trochillidae
Hyena (Hyæna striata)
HYENA Hyaena striata
IBIS Threskiornis aethiopica
Some Words with a Mummy 6:129/16
JACKASS A male donkey
JACK-DAW Corvus monedula
Paul Ulric (R) 8:181/17
JAY Garrulus glandarius
The Devil in the Belfry 3:254/27 [page 88:]
KATY-DID Locusitidae
KID A young goat
The Gold-Bug 5:128/17/26
Letter dated May 27, 1844 [G] :43/17
Letter dated June 4, 1844 [G] :47/24
Editorial in The Public Ledger [G] :79/30
KITTEN A young cat
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:74/21; 75/1; 78/5; 81/10; 82/12
Alice Ray (R) 12:261/12
The American Drama 13:64/12; 65/15
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1095/19; 1096/20
LADY-BUG Ceratomegilla fuscilabris
LAMB — LAMBKIN A young sheep
Four Beasts in One 2:208/13
A Tale of Jerusalem 2:215/8
The Heroine (R) 8:81/2/5
William Hazlitt (R) 9:140/13
Barnaby Rudge (R) 11:60/30
Twice Told Tales (R) 11:105/22
N. P. Willis (R) 12:36/7
Henry Cary (R) 15:67/16
Thomas Dunn Brown (R) 15:269/16/19
Marginalia 16:61/15
LANCE-FLY A type of diptera
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:293/26
LAP-DOG A pet dog small enough to hold on the lap
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:282/22
LARK A laudidae
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:47/8 [page 89:]
Astoria (R) 9:239/22; 241/26/34; 243/17
James Russell Lowell (R) 11:247/3
LEECH Hirudinea
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:175/32; 176/2/7/10
Stanley Thorn 11:15/4
Leopard (Felis pardus)
LEOPARD Felis pardus
Four Beasts in One 2:207/11
LEPIDOPTERA Genus of the butterfly and moth
The Sphinx 6:243/18
LICE — LOUSE Anoplara
Some Words with a Mummy 6:133/13
LINNET Carduelis cannabina
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:171/10
A Chaunt of Life (R) 12:200/28 [page 90:]
LION Felis Leo
Lionizing 2:35/16; 38/18; 41/31
Four Beasts in One 2:207/11
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:28/21
The Elk 5:158/20
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:92/25
Tamerlane 7:6/18
Ulalume 7:103/19
Journal (R) 8:31/3
The Linwoods (R) 8:97/7
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:308/6/12/12/16
A Pleasant Peregrination 9:38/7
Ballads and Other Poems (R) 11:83/2
Rufus Dawes (R) 11:137/28
Drama of Exile (R) 12:10/4
Songs of Our Land (R) 12:258/18; 259/16; 13:105/1
Fifty Suggestions 14:171/21
The Rationale of Verse 14:243/10
Thomas Dunn English 15:64/27
Autography 15:155/29
Mary E. Hewitt (R) 15:290/14/28
Letters 17:11/14; 30/24/26; 31/13; 249/8
Tamerlane [M] (B):44/252 “Among men Lion ambition is chain’d down”; (F):50/172; (H):58/160
LIZARD Lacertitia
LOCUST Pachytylus migretorius
A Tale of Jerusalem 2:216/26
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:294/21
Pinikidia 14:69/4
Anna Cora Mowatt (R) 15:30/2
LYNX Lynx canadensis
Silence — A Fable 2:224/26
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:33/16
“Thou Art The Man” 5:295/30 [page 91:]
The Purloined Letter 6:31/23
Marginalia 16:161/12
MACKEREL Scomber scomber
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/21
MAGPIE Pica pica
Autography 15:171/8
MAMMOTH — BEHEMOTH Mammonteus
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:166/title; 167/25/27; 168/23; 169/2/10/13/15/31
MARSH-HEN Rallidae
MARTIN Martes
MASTIFF Breed of Canis Familiaris
Landor's Cottage 6:263/21
MASTODON Mastodon americanum
Diddling 5:211/28
MINK Mustela visioni
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:33/17
MOCKINGBIRD Mimus polyglottos
Mole (Spalax ehrenbergi)
MOLE spalax ehrenbergi
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:16/10/14; 17/13/20/23; 19/23
Mellonta Tauta 6:205/23; 206/5 [page 92:]
MOLLUSC Shell fish other than crustacea
The Conchologist's First Book 14:95/10/12; 99/21/27
MONKEY Any Primate except man
The Business Man 4:132/4
The Man of the Crowd 4:139/7
The Black Cat 5:144/17; 145/12
Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! [M] 1:10/36 “The monkeys made me swear.”
Letter dated June 12, 1844 [G] :61/7
MOTH Lepodoptera Tineola pellionella
MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKEN Hydro bates pelagicus
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/17
MOTHER CAREY’S GOOSE Macronecies giganteus
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/17 [page 93:]
MOUSE — MICE Mus musculus
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:57/14
The Business Man 4:133/16
Three Sundays in a Week 4:231/17/18
The Tell-Tale Heart 5:90/34
Diddling 5:215/26
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:93/38
A Year in Spain (R) 9:83/25
The Sacred Mountains (R) 13:203/2/4
Marginalia 16:63/5
Mule (Equus asinus mulus)
MULE A hybrid between a horse and an ass
MULLET Mugilidae
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/22 [page 94:]
MUSQUASH — MUSKRAT Ondatra zibethica
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:33/17
MUSQUITO — MOSQUITO Culex pungens
MUTTON Meat of adult sheep
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:24/2; 26/10; 30/32
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” (R) 10:20/19
Charles O’Malley (R) 11:92/18
Poets and Poetry of America 11:224/28
The Longfellow War 12:56/20
Marginalia 16:38/13/16
NELLY Macronecies giganteus
NEWFOUNDLAND DOG Breed of Canis Familiaris
NEWT Tritarus
Dream-Land 7:90/1
NIGHTINGALE Luscinia megarhyncha
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:299/33
Undine 10:32/30
Wakondah (R) 11:33/16
Orion (R) 11:268/9
The Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:176/10; 177/24
The Rationale of Verse 14:242/24; 245/6
The Poetic Principle 14:269/26
OISEAU Ayes
The Duc De L’Omelette 2:198/5
OPOSSUM Didelphis virginiana
The Business Man 4:130/25
Powhatan (R) 10:165/28 [page 95:]
ORIOLE Oriolus oriolus
ORTOLAN Emberiza hortulana
OSPREY Pandion haliaetos
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/24
OTTER Lutra canadensis
OURANG-OUTANG — ORANGUTAN Pongo pygmaeus
The Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:182/18/20; 183/12/31; 184/26/28; 185/13; 186/6; 188/8/33; 189/19; 190/23; 191/14
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:76/10
Hop-Frog 6:223/18/26; 225/15; 227/4
OWL Strigiformes
Von Kempelen and His Discovery 6:247/1
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:14/1/3/25; 17/23; 19/23
The Angel of the Odd 6:107/10
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/5/10
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:12/9/15; 13/1/2
Green-Halleck (R) 8:303/11
Sheppard Lee (R) 9:129/14/21; 136/27
Flaccus (R) 11:173/31/32/34/34; 174/4
The Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:177/13/21
The American Drama 13:43/15
Henry B. Hirst (R) 13:209/22; 210/3/17
Letters 17:251/10
OX Bos taurus
OYSTER Ostreidae
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:195/16
The Business Man 4:133/9
A Distressed Gentleman (R) 9:27/16
Damsel of Darien (R) 10:56/15/29 [page 96:]
The Conchologist's First Book 14:98/26
PANTHER — PAINTER Felis concolor
PARACUTA Apparently a misspelling of Barracuda
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/23
PARAQUET — PAROQUET — PARAKEET Palacornithinae
Romance 7:40/5
Romance [M] (G)1:128/5 “To me a painted paroquet” Introduction [M] 1:156/5 “To me a painted paroquet”
The Bargain Lost [M] 2:87/10 “The paraquet resembled ... Pedro, the metaphysician.”
PARROT Psittaciformes
Hop-Frog 6:222/2
PARROT FISH Scaridae
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/22
PARTRIDGE Perdix
Drama of Exile (R) 12:29/20
PEACOCK Pavo muticus
Mellonta Tauta 6:209/1 “He (MOB) was a giant in stature with the brains of a peacock.”
Paul Ulric (R) 8:181/18
William Ellery Channing (R) 11:175/2
PELICAN Pelicanus conspicillatus
PENGUIN Spheniscidae
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:11/1; 15/2; 16/3/12; 153/28; 154/10/13/14; 155/3/8; 156/9/10/12/31; 166/30
PETREL Procellariformes
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/17/20/21/23; 166/30; 174/18 [page 97:]
PHOEBE Sayornis phoebe
PHOLAS Eulamellibranchia
Zinzendorff, and Other Poems 8:132/25/27
PIG — SWINE Sus scrofa
A Tale of Jerusalem [M] 2:41/11 “Biblical injunction against pigs, the swine is unclean unto you.”
A Predicament 2:283/6 “The pigs were whistling.”
The Devil in the Belfry 3:250/34; 251/7; 255/33
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling 4:118/17
The Business Man 4:127/21
The Spectacles 5:204/17
Diddling 5:211/29
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:14/19; 18/34; 23/1/4
The Angel of the Odd 6:105/13
Paul Ulric (R) 8:196/30
The American in England (R) 8:217/11
Sheppard Lee (R) 9:126/22
Powhatan (R) 10:165/27
Flaccus (R) 11:174/1
William Ellery Channing (R) 11:176/15/18
The Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:169/20
Mr. Hudson (R) 13:27/23
The American Drama 13:64/18
Nathaniel Hawthorne 13:155/17
Pinakidia 14:49/4
Marginalia 16:7/24
Letters 17:249/9
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1096/9
PIGEON Colombidae
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:55/27; 68/18; 73/3; 74/8/11; 106/3
The Devil in the Belfry 3:255/2
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:221/2; 224/3
The Spectacles 5:206/17
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:/95/30/33/34
Autography 15:190/17 [page 98:]
PLOVER Charadriidae
The Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:171/13
POLECAT Mephetis
POLL An animal from which the horns have been removed
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/10/18
PONY Equus pullus
POODLE A breed of Canis familiaris
PORCUPINE Erethizontidae
PORGY Pagrus pagrus
The Partisan 8:151/8/17; 152/3/7/19; 157/17
PORKER A pig Sus scrofa
A Tale of Jerusalem 2:219/17
PORPOISE Phocaena
PORT EGMONT HEN Catharacta skua antartica
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/16
POULTRY Domesticated birds that serve as food
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:162/9
PRAIRIE DOG Cynomys ludoviciarius
Mellonta Tauta 6:207/34; 209/9 [page 99:]
PRAWN Pandalus or Peneus
PUPPY A young domesticated dog
A Predicament 2:294/31
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:30/12
The Devil in the Belfry 3:250/2; 251/13
The Angel of the Odd 6:107/15
X-ing a Paragrab 6:231/14
William Ellery Channing (R) 11:187/15/18
Boston and the Bostonians 13:5/15
Quail (Coturnix coturnix)
QUAIL Coturnix communis
QUARL Scuphozoa
RABBIT Oryctolagus cuniculus
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:162/9 [page 100:]
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:63/22/24/30/31; 64/1/2
Some Words with a Mummy 6:116/9/18
Ballads and Other Poems 11:69/32
RACOON Procyonlotor
RAM A male sheep Ovis laticaudata
A Tale of Jerusalem [M] 2:41/8 “A boar, a ram and a bull were offered in purification ceremony.”
Mellonta Tauta 6:203/21/22
Astoria (R) 9:235/19/22; 237/16
Marginalia 16:123/27
Eureka 16:190/18; 192/7; 195/33; 197/28
A Remarkable Letter [M] 3:1313/20/21; 1316/15; 1317/30
RAT Rattus
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:48/33
A Predicament 2:286/22/25/28/30; 294/26
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:180/6/31/34/34
The Pit and the Pendulum 5:78/8; 80/3; 82/25
Diddling 5:212/14
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:80/17
The Angel of the Odd 6:110/27
Letters 17:249/5
The Bargain Lost [M] 2:90/15 “Persons ... have been frightened under certain dispensations of Providence (such as visitation of a spider, a rat, or a physician).”
Unsigned Contributions to The Public Ledger [M] 3:1095/32; 1096/27
Theatrical Rats [M] 3:1244/title/1
Editorial in the Public Ledger [M] 3:1096/26/29
RATTLESNAKE Veratalis v. virivis
Raven (Corvidæ)
RAVEN Corvidae korax
Berenice 2:18/10
A Descent into the Maelstrom 2:247/14
Ligeia 2:250/18; 268/19 [page 101:]
The Raven 7:94/title; 96/14/28/32; 97/13; 98/1/32; 99/11/22; 100/3/4
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:12/10
Drama of Exile 12:18/1
The Longfellow War 12:49/27; 50/28; 52/9; 66/16/29; 67/17; 68/6/12; 67/17; 68/6/12; 69/7; 73/2; 74/33; 76/18; 79/2/5
Achilles’ Wrath (R) 12:136/20
William W. Lord (R) 12:158/1
Coxe's Saul (R) 12:244/5
Boston and the Bostonians 13:11/1/2
The Sacred Mountains (R) 13:204/30
Brook Farm (R) 13:28/title; 29/25/27; 31/22; 32/6
A Fable for Critics (R) 13:172/28
The Philosophy of Composition 14:195/27; 200/29/32; 201/16/21; 202/30; 203/25; 204/3/12; 205/5/19; 206/9/11/20; 208/10
The Rationale of Verse 14:229/11
Marginalia 16:155/8
Letters 17:205/5/7; 206/22; 207/20/22; 209/10/19; 330/21; 347/9; 351/23; 359/13
A Reviewer Reviewed [M] 3:1380/15/22
REINDEER (REIN-DEER, sic) Gangifer
The Rationale of Verse 14:232/19
Model Verses [M] (C) 1:393/4 “see the delicate footed rein-deer.”
REPTILE Reptilia An animal that crawls or moves on its belly
RHINOCEROS Rhinocerotidae
Loss of Breath 2:162/4
RING DOVE Columba palumbus
William W. Lord (R) 12:151/17
ROBIN Reithacus rubecola
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:214/6
Horse-Shoe Robinson (R) 8:8/17
Letters of S. T. Coleridge (R) 9:52/10
The Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:171/9
ROCK COD Epinephelus daemelii
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/20
ROOK Corvus frugilegus
SABLE Martes sibellina
Voices of the Night (R) 10:74/31/33
A Dream [M] 2:8/27 “The heavens were clothed in the sables of mourning.” [page 103:]
Loss of Breath [M] 2:81/11 “the flapping to and fro of the sable hangings”
The Bargain Lost [M] 2:89/16; 90/4 “placing them on the sable-bound volume on the alabaster stand”; 91/10 “let fall his hand upon the sable volume”
SALAMANDER Salamandra maculosa
SALMON Salmo salar
SANGSUE — LEECH Hirudinea
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:176/9
SCALLOP Vela jacobaea
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:289/29
SCARABAEUS Scarabaeus sacer
The Gold-Bug 5:97/23/28; 99/9/29/29/32; 105/14/17/31; 106/3; 108/6; 114/12; 115/13; 123/1; 124/1/13/29; 126/29; 127/1
Some Words with a Mummy 6:119/31; 128/22/24/26/27/32/33/34; 129/5/8/15/23/26
SCORPION Androcienus occitanus
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:231/12
SCREECH-OWL Otus asio
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:13/1
SEA ELEPHANT Mirounga lionina
SEA GULL Larus argentatus
SEA HEN Catharacia skua
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/16 [page 104:]
SEAL Phoca vitulina
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:132/10; 153/25; 157/23/33; 158/4; 160/22
A Committee on Naval Affairs (R) 9:86/28
Astoria (R) 9:239/29/31
Songs of Our Land (R) 12:257/7; 13:102/11
The American Drama 13:46/5
Marginalia 16:9/25
Eureka 16:292/13
SEA LION Eumetopias jubata
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:160/21
SEA MEW Laras canus
SEA OTTER Enhydra lutris
SEA SWALLOW Sterna hirundo
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/18
SERPENT Serpens A creeping animal
Ligeia 2:260/1
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:28/6; 132/32; 190/30
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:29/22
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:172/26
The Spectacles 5:206/20
The Cask of Amontillado 6:171/8
Ideals and Other Poems (R) 11:115/16
Orion (R) 11:269/27
Marginalia 16:147/16
SHAG Phalaerocoreae aristotetis
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/17
SHARK Clasmobranch fish
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:137/4/28; 138/14; 140/4; 141/9/30; 145/17 [page 105:]
Sheep (Ovis laticaudata)
SHEEP — MOUTON Orvis
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:44/21
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:162/9
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:223/29
Landor's Cottage 6:263/17; 264/2
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:8/29; 20/20;
Wakondah (R) 11:34/5
The Philosophy of Furniture 14:103/23
Marginalia 16:3/3
Letters 17:252/32
Revivals [B] :69/16
SHREW Soricidae
SHRIMP Crago vulgari
SILK WORM Bombyx mori
The Magazine Prison House 14:162/8
SKATE Raja
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/21 [page 106:]
SKYLARK Alauda arvensis
SNAIL Haplotrema concava
SNAKE A limbless reptile
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:176/13
The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 6:70/5
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:288/9
Astoria (R) 9:233/17; 234/3/7; 235/34
Orion (R) 11:265/34
William Gilmore Simms (R) 12:249/20
Marginalia 16:175/13
To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter [M] 1:399/8
SOLE Solea solea
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:190/22
SOW An adult female pig
X-ing a Paragrab 6:233/10
SPARROW — SONG SPARROW Melospiza melodia
SPIDER A raheida
The Tell-Tale Heart 5:91/13
The Sphinx 6:244/6
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:287/8
The Bargain Lost [M] 2:90/15 “Persons have been frightened ... at the visitation of a spider, a rat or a physician.”
Instinct vs. Reason [M] 2:478/14 “The habits of the lion-ant, of many kinds of spiders have in them a wonderful analogy to the usual operations of the reason of man.”
SQUIRREL Sciuridae
STAG Cervus elephus
Orion (R) 11:265/12; 266/1/6/16
STARFISH Asteria vulgaris
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:288/24
STEED A spirited riding horse
Metzengerstein 2:189/21; 190/13; 194/6/18; 196/3
The Partisan (R) 8:148/4
Georgia Scenes (R) 8:260/30
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:287/26
Alice Ray (R) 12:261/29/21
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (R) 13:87/23
STORK Circoniidae
STUD HORSE A horse kept for breeding
STURGEON Acipenser sturio
SWALLOW Hurundo erythrogasler
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:197/15
The Devil in the Belfry 3:254/6
Horse-Shoe Robinson (R) 8:4/5; 9/31
Paul Ulric (R) 8:204/27
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:288/28
Undine (R) 10:38/28
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:171/17
Richard Adams Locke (R) 15:128/10
Autography 15:184/25; 185/3; 193/19
Marginalia 16:50/26
SWAN Chenopsis atraia
Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfaall 2:107/6
Metzengerstein 2:188/22 [page 108:]
The Domain of Arnheim 6:193/17
Mrs. Ellet (R) 8:139/5
Undine (R) 10:34/22
Sketches of Living Characters (R) 10:138/32
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:179/9
Boston and the Bostonians 13:3/7
Eureka 16:288/18/21/34; 289/7/12/14
Fanny [M] 1:225/2 “The dying swan by northern lakes sings its wild death song.”
SWIFT Chaetura pelagica
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:171/6
TARANTULA Lycosa tarantula
The Gold-Bug 5:95/2
TEAL Netlion crecca
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/17
TERN Sterna hirundo
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:154/8
TERRAPIN Testudinidae
THROSTLE Turdus musicus
Coming of the Mammoth (R) 13:171/12
TIGER Fells tigris
Four Beasts in One 2:207/11
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:29/21; 30/29; 31/16; 34/13; 37/16; 39/16; 41/31; 58/10; 59/28; 60/3; 67/27; 73/10; 74/12; 75/16; 94/5; 102/34; 128/27
Landor's Cottage 6:268/20
Elkswatawa (R) 9:123/2
TOAD Bufo vulgaris
Never Bet the Devil Your Head 4:218/13
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:14/31; 16/1/8; 17/23; 19/23
Dream-Land 7:90/1 [page 109:]
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:288/10/13; 293/25
Spain Revisited (R) 9:3/21
A Few Words about Brainard (R) 11:24/26/33
William Cullen Bryant (R) 13:128/15/21
The Literati of New York City 15:2/11
Letters 17:274/30
TORTOISE Chelonia
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:132/7/13/19; 134/21; 136/19; 137/33; 138/24; 140/33; 141/34; 177/10; 184/12; 190/28; 194/14; 219/28; 238/9
The Premature Burial 5:289/22
Marginalia 16:70/15
Eureka 16:190/4
TROUT Salvelinus fontinalis
TURKEY — TURKEY-COCK — GOBLER Meleagris gallopavo silvestris
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:39/8
Mellonta Tauta 6:213/10
Wakondah (R) 11:34/1
Marginalia 16:174/13
Letters 17:256/5
TURTLE Chelonia
King Pest 2:169/28
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:144/16; 231/16; 233/16
The Business Man 4:133/19
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. 6:24/13/27/30; 25/20
A Pleasant Perigrination (R) 9:42/5
Drama of Exile (R) 12:27/27
The Rationale of Verse 14:242/17/34
Marginalia 16:70/18
TURTLE-DOVE Streptopelia turtur
The Bells 7:119/23
Frances Sargent Osgood 13:110/20; 15:273/35 [page 110:]
VAMPIRE BAT Vampyrus spectrum
Tamerlane [M] (F)1:46/27 “the fabled vampire bat”
VEAL Meat of a calf
VENUS DIONE CONCH A variety of conch
The Conchologist's First Book 14:98/2
VERMICULAR SANGSUE Hirudinea
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 5:176/9
VIPER Vipera
Vulture (Aquila chrysætus)
VULTURE Vulturidae gyps fulvus [page 111:]
Ligeia 2:253/21
The Tell-Tale Heart 5:88/16; 91/15
Sonnet — To Science 7:22/4
Stephen's “Arabia Petraea” 10:13/4
Flaccus (R) 11:172/8
Songs of Our Land (R) 12:258/31
WASP Hymenoptera
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:164/29; 168/27
The Edinburgh Review (R) 8:84/10
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:290/30; 291/24; 294/4
Flaccus (R) 11:173/31
WATER FOWL Any bird that frequents the water
WATER SPIDER Tipula pennicornis
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:93/34
WEASEL Mustela noveborucensis
WHALE Cetacea
A Descent into the Maelstrom 2:230/29
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:5/23; 11/1; 14/12; 18/13; 38/26; 62/19; 72/32; 133/19; 150/24; 155/25; 160/23; 168/1; 170/7; 179/17
“Thou Art The Man” 5:308/34
Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs 9:89/1
Astoria (R) 9:241/23
Address on the Subject of Surveying, etc (R) 9:306/6; 311/7
The American Drama 13:46/5
Marginalia 16:9/25
Eureka 16:292/13
WHIPPOORWILL Antrostomus vociferus
The Hawks of Hawk Hollow (R) 8:73/8
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:303/16
The Coming of the Mammoth (R) 12:177/5 [page 112:]
WILDCAT Felis catus
Georgia Scenes (R) 8:258/2
Wolf (Canis lupus)
WOLF Canis lupus
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:33/18; 69/22; 80/24/30; 86/20; 94/1
The Gold-Bug 5:127/15
Orion (R) 11:269/13
The Longfellow War 12:59/30
Thomas Dunn Brown (R) 15:269/16
Letters 17:334/17
WOLVERINE Gulo luscus
The Journal of Julius Rodman 4:33/17
WOODCOCK Scolopax rusticoia
A Distressed Gentleman (R) 9:27/24
WOOD TICK Ixododae
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:286/24 [page 113:]
WORM a soft-bodied, elongated, creeping, naked, limbless creature
Ms. Found in a Bottle 2:11/1
Morella 2:32/31
Bon-Bon 2:138/11
Ligeia 2:257/20
How to Write a Blackwood Article 2:277/8
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 3:140/30; 197/19
The Man of the Crowd 4:144/9
The Colloquy of Monos and Una 4:211/4
Mesmeric Revelations 5:250/14/16
The Premature Burial 5:263/25; 266/7; 267/3
The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade 6:89/36; 93/11; 96/32
Mellonta Tauta 6:198/24/25
The Sleeper 7:52/20
The Conqueror Worm 7:87/title; 88/16
Ulalume 7:103/18
Drake-Halleck (R) 8:287/4; 305/11
Flaccus (R) 11:172/10
Elizabeth Oakes Smith (R) 13:91/9
The Rationale of Verse 14:217/16
Irene [M] 1:185/62
A Dream [M] 2:9/14 “I saw the grave-worm twining itself.”
The Worm [B] :69-70
WREN Nannus traglodytes aedon
Flaccus (R) 11:172/2
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Notes:
Dr. Woolfson consitently renders “Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!.” as “Oh, Tempore, Oh, Mores!.” This error has been corrected in the current presentation.
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