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  1   I,  1  |            animals many, as has been said, derive their subsistence
  2   I,  5  |           feet at all: for there are said to be certain flying serpents
  3   I,  15 |         upper and lower parts may be said to resemble one another
  4   I,  15 |           but man alone, as has been said, has, in maturity, this
  5   I,  17 |          three cavities, as has been said: the right-hand one the
  6   I,  17 |           however, have, as has been said, a small cavity. From this
  7   I,  17 |           our general account of the said organ.~All these organs
  8  II,  1  |           common to all, as has been said, and some are common only
  9  II,  1  |     huckle-bone; for the pig, as was said above, is either solid-hooved
 10  II,  1  |            cases where a creature is said metaphorically, or by a
 11  II,  1  |             one another, as has been said, in this particular, but
 12  II,  2  |             in general; for they are said to shed their canines only.
 13  II,  8  |         their human form-for, as was said above, this characteristic
 14  II,  17 |              way, are those that are said to chew the cud. In these
 15  IV,  2  |           crawfish then, as has been said, has two teeth, large and
 16  IV,  4  |             one another, as has been said, in the way of excess or
 17  IV,  6  |              or sensory, nor, as was said in the case of the others,
 18  IV,  8  |             preserve silence, as was said; but, after hemming the
 19  IV,  9  |              insects; and others are said to sing, as the cicada.
 20  IV,  10 |           sleep. And the same may be said of water animals, such as
 21  IV,  11 |              divided but can only be said in a comparative way to
 22   v,  8  |            greater part, as has been said, pair and breed during the
 23   v,  8  |              Pleiads. The halcyon is said to take seven days for building
 24   v,  11 |              while some, as has been said, are so in summer, in autumn,
 25   v,  16 |           over a smaller area.~It is said that the sponge is sensitive;
 26   v,  17 |       squeezing the eggs towards the said gristly formations and maintaining
 27   v,  22 |            intermediate stage, it is said, of the grub, but the bee
 28   v,  31 |            the Syrian Pherecydes are said to have done. Moreover,
 29   v,  33 |            the life of the animal is said not to exceed six months.
 30  VI,  3  |            birth differ, as has been said. With the common hen after
 31  VI,  4  |              The pigeon, as has been said, lays at all seasons; the
 32  VI,  4  |              hen-pigeon, as has been said, occasionally lays three
 33  VI,  6  |        hatches two of them, as it is said in the verses ascribed to
 34  VI,  6  |            the same time the bird is said to abstain from food, to
 35  VI,  6  |              own young. The phene is said to rear the young one that
 36  VI,  6  |           birds of prey, as has been said, also act in this manner,
 37  VI,  7  |                      7~The cuckoo is said by some to be a hawk transformed,
 38  VI,  8  |              most birds, as has been said of the pigeon, the hatching
 39  VI,  13 |              placed low down, as was said previously-and, by the way,
 40  VI,  14 |             it be the carp, which is said to remain on guard, if it
 41  VI,  15 |             Cnidos. This pond, it is said, at one time ran dry about
 42  VI,  15 |        intervals excepted, it may be said to last the whole year through.
 43  VI,  18 |            cow. In fact, the mare is said to go a-horsing; and the
 44  VI,  18 |      observed in the sow when she is said to go a-boaring. The mare
 45  VI,  18 |            go a-boaring. The mare is said also about this time to
 46  VI,  18 |              copulation, as has been said, is sufficient. It is as
 47  VI,  18 |          grow in age and size. It is said that a sow, if she have
 48  VI,  22 |           several young.~The mare is said to suckle a mule-foal for
 49  VI,  22 |            their age; hence they are said to carry their mark before
 50  VI,  22 |             foal to full term; it is said to be an indication of this
 51  VI,  23 |           mare destroys, as has been said, the embryo previously begotten
 52  VI,  32 |             hyena. At least a hunter said that out of eleven hyenas
 53 VII,  3  |             as indeed I have already said.~
 54 VII,  6  |              and seventy children is said to have begotten but one
 55 VIII,  2 |        female; and also that, if the said organ be obliterated altogether,
 56 VIII,  2 |             constituted; for, as was said above, what is in conformity
 57 VIII,  5 |           will bite a man, and it is said that whenever it bites it
 58 VIII,  9 |             hundred. The elephant is said by some to live for about
 59 VIII,  12|          hand, in others they may be said to come from the ends of
 60 VIII,  12|            by the way, that they are said to fight with the pygmies;
 61 VIII,  12|               the crane, as has been said, migrates from one end of
 62 VIII,  12|           bird, the parrot, which is said to have a man’s tongue,
 63 VIII,  17|         fourteen of these days it is said not to move at all, but
 64 VIII,  17|              quite empty. It is also said that from no food being
 65 VIII,  17|        soft-shelled crabs, and it is said to be the case with the
 66 VIII,  18|              may in a general way be said never to drink at all, though
 67 VIII,  19|             a general rule it may be said that places abounding in
 68 VIII,  20|            during this period, it is said to be done not to keep them
 69 VIII,  21|            change of diet; and it is said that one kind of food blows
 70 VIII,  24|               in which the animal is said to stand still and droop
 71 VIII,  26|          inside of an elephant it is said that it will pass out if
 72 VIII,  28|           the same length. For it is said that they are tamed down
 73 VIII,  29|             which a certain stone is said to be a cure: a stone that
 74 VIII,  30|           the only sea-fish which is said make a bed for itself, and
 75  IX,  1  |           fight together. Thus it is said that seals which inhabit
 76  IX,  1  |          during the union, and it is said drips blood from its eyes;
 77  IX,  1  |              with one another; it is said that the blood of the anthus
 78  IX,  2  |        periods: that is, as has been said, when they are heavy with
 79  IX,  3  |              stupidity.~The sheep is said to be naturally dull and
 80  IX,  3  |           its setting, the goats are said to lie no longer face to
 81  IX,  5  |            approach, and there it is said to hold its own against
 82  IX,  5  |            conceal themselves, it is said, during the daytime, and,
 83  IX,  5  |           crabs and eats them; it is said to be a good thing for man
 84  IX,  6  |             cuckoo-pint, as has been said, and chew sticks of wood
 85  IX,  6  |              Wild goats in Crete are said, when wounded by arrows,
 86  IX,  6  |            human excrement, which is said to heal its pain. This panther’
 87  IX,  6  |           genital organ, as has been said, consists of bone: the organ
 88  IX,  8  |             of the bird.~As has been said, quails and partridges build
 89  IX,  9  |           nest on trees, as has been said, on olive trees amongst
 90  IX,  9  |        search for maggots that it is said sometimes to hollow a tree
 91  IX,  11 |       seasons.~Of the vulture, it is said that no one has ever seen
 92  IX,  12 |           sons of earth.~The hybris, said by some to be the same as
 93  IX,  15 |              birds. (The titmouse is said to lay a very large quantity
 94  IX,  15 |       ostrich the blackheaded tit is said by some to lay the largest
 95  IX,  15 |              more than twenty; it is said always to lay an odd number.
 96  IX,  18 |      ashen-coloured one, as has been said, unites with the female
 97  IX,  18 |          nicknamed "the skulker", is said in folklore stories to be
 98  IX,  29 |              The cuckoo, as has been said elsewhere, makes no nest,
 99  IX,  30 |              derives its name; it is said that, after it has sucked
100  IX,  32 |           from its high flight it is said to be the only bird that
101  IX,  34 |               and feeds, as has been said, on sea-birds; when in pursuit
102  IX,  36 | neighbourhood of Lake Maeotis, it is said, wolves act in concert with
103  IX,  37 |               The sepia, as has been said, often uses its colouring
104  IX,  37 |        alarmed. By some the sepia is said to perform the same trick;
105  IX,  37 |             the mollusca.~It is also said that they make a thin rough
106  IX,  40 |           seek out its leader. It is said that if he is unable to
107  IX,  40 |             is alive, the drones are said to be produced apart by
108  IX,  40 |              longer living, they are said to be reared by the bees
109  IX,  40 |         species of bees, as has been said; two of "kings", the better
110  IX,  40 |              to do so, the combs are said to go bad and to get covered
111  IX,  40 |         malodorous; and, as has been said, they are annoyed by all
112  IX,  40 |             little bees, as has been said, are more industrious than
113  IX,  40 |           and unthrifts. As has been said, they differentiate their
114  IX,  40 |               Sheep and, as has been said, wasps are enemies to the
115  IX,  42 |        uncertain whether that can be said of them all, In the hives
116  IX,  42 |           certain wasps, as has been said; but anthrenae appear to
117  IX,  48 |           land; at all events, it is said that they do so at times,