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billy-goat 1
biped 7
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bird 109
bird-catcher 2
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Aristotle
The History of Animals

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bird

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1 I, 1 | genus" I mean, for instance, Bird or Fish, for each of these 2 I, 1 | what the feather is in a bird, the scale is in a fish.~ 3 I, 1 | called Apodes. This little bird is powerful on the wing; 4 I, 1 | general rule, it is a rare bird.)~Again, some animals move 5 I, 1 | swan; and, by the way, no bird furnished with crooked talons 6 I, 5 | genus under the name of "bird"; the other two genera, 7 II, 12 | analogous to the chest. The bird is remarkable among animals 8 II, 12 | the wryneck.~This latter bird is somewhat bigger than 9 II, 12 | additionally with spurs, but no bird with crooked talons is found 10 II, 16 | animal, whether fish or bird, provided with these organs. 11 III, 12 | crane. The wings of this bird are ash-coloured at first, 12 III, 20 | milk, as the fish and the bird.~All milk is composed of 13 IV, 1 | spherical, like that of a bird; then comes the stomach, 14 IV, 4 | in the snail resembles a bird’s crop. Underneath come 15 IV, 9 | season every species of bird becomes particularly vocal. 16 IV, 9 | lessons in singing to a young bird, from which spectacle we 17 IV, 9 | infer that the song of the bird was not equally congenital 18 v, 8 | is almost periodical. The bird lays about five eggs.~ 19 v, 14 | and in the case of the bird, the egg.~For animals that 20 v, 22 | it broods over it like a bird. The grub when it is small 21 VI, 1 | except the kestrel: this bird is the most prolific of 22 VI, 1 | sheltered places; but the bird called merops in Boeotia, 23 VI, 2 | are put under the mother bird, the liquid contents never 24 VI, 4 | twenty days; and the mother bird pecks a hole in the egg 25 VI, 5 | is the only carnivorous bird that builds a nest twice. 26 VI, 6 | nest. At the same time the bird is said to abstain from 27 VI, 6 | crow is an exception. This bird for a considerable time 28 VI, 7 | of the hawk tribe, which bird disappears as a rule about 29 VI, 7 | young of the cuckoo. The bird eggs, but does not build 30 VI, 7 | in the nest of a smaller bird after first devouring the 31 VI, 7 | devouring the eggs of this bird; it lays by preference in 32 VI, 7 | about this time that the bird becomes fat and palatable. ( 33 VI, 8 | the whole period; the male bird supports the female, bringing 34 VI, 9 | immediately after pairing. The bird moults when the earliest 35 VIII, 3 | beautiful and graceful little bird. Then the anthus, a bird 36 VIII, 3 | bird. Then the anthus, a bird about the size of a finch; 37 VIII, 3 | that the note of the larger bird is the louder of the two; 38 VIII, 3 | is also the greenpie, a bird about the size of a turtle-dove, 39 VIII, 3 | Peloponnese. There is another bird called the "grub-picker" ( 40 VIII, 3 | up on the beach, for the bird is omnivorous. There are 41 VIII, 3 | the grebe, and the teal-a bird resembling the duck but 42 VIII, 3 | water-raven or cormorant. This bird is the size of a stork, 43 VIII, 3 | prey feed on any animal or bird, other than a bird of prey, 44 VIII, 3 | animal or bird, other than a bird of prey, that they may catch. 45 VIII, 12| untrue: to wit, that the bird, so the story goes, carries 46 VIII, 12| southerly winds, when the bird from the violence of the 47 VIII, 12| bulkiness of its body that the bird always screams while flying: 48 VIII, 12| birdcatchers hear the croak of the bird in the nighttime they know 49 VIII, 12| landrail is like a marsh bird, and the glottis has a tongue 50 VIII, 12| It is a great rogue of a bird, and is a capital mimic; 51 VIII, 12| before it and, while the bird is mimicking his gestures, 52 VIII, 12| disposed to mimicry. The Indian bird, the parrot, which is said 53 VIII, 16| whether the talons of a bird be crooked or straight; 54 IX, 1 | the oriole (of this latter bird, by the way, the story goes 55 IX, 1 | special grounds, though, as a bird of prey, it carries on a 56 IX, 1 | the horse will drive the bird out of the field where he 57 IX, 1 | where he is grazing: the bird feeds on grass, and sees 58 IX, 1 | but the horse drives the bird away, and whenever he catches 59 IX, 1 | catches it he kills it: this bird lives beside rivers or on 60 IX, 1 | acanthis are enemies; for the bird lives on thistles, and the 61 IX, 6 | should accidentally bite the bird.~The tortoise, when it has 62 IX, 7 | same way as men do, the bird mixes mud and chaff together; 63 IX, 7 | take food. (When the male bird is about to expel the the 64 IX, 8 | As has been observed, the bird has mischievous and deceitful 65 IX, 8 | lecherous nature of the bird, and from a dislike to the 66 IX, 8 | nickname of "widowers". The bird who is beaten follows his 67 IX, 8 | him only; and the beaten bird is covered by a second one 68 IX, 8 | that sometimes the male bird, when he approaches the 69 IX, 8 | general nasty habits of the bird.~As has been said, quails 70 IX, 11 | charadrius, or stone-curlew; this bird is in no way noteworthy 71 IX, 11 | places. Although a ravenous bird, it will never eat the heart 72 IX, 11 | never eat the heart of any bird it catches; this has been 73 IX, 11 | The reason is that the bird has its nest on inaccessible 74 IX, 11 | the brenthus; this latter bird finds his food with ease 75 IX, 12 | sea-shore, as the wagtail; the bird is of a mischievous nature, 76 IX, 12 | rivers; the plumage of this bird is pretty, and it finds 77 IX, 12 | form. The Ionians call the bird by this name; Homer in the 78 IX, 13 | nest. The under part of the bird’s wing is pale yellow; the 79 IX, 13 | People who live where the bird comes from say that there 80 IX, 13 | there exists a cinnamon bird which brings the cinnamon 81 IX, 14 | then, is the look of the bird. Its nest is like sea-balls, 82 IX, 14 | gar-fish; for, by the way, the bird lives on fish. Besides living 83 IX, 15 | A peculiarity of this bird and of the nightingale is 84 IX, 16 | living as easily as any other bird, sits in summer in a shady 85 IX, 17 | in other ways an unlucky bird. The bird called sitta is 86 IX, 17 | ways an unlucky bird. The bird called sitta is quarrelsome, 87 IX, 17 | tree-creeper is a little bird, of fearless disposition; 88 IX, 18 | implies, it is the laziest bird of the three species. Such 89 IX, 18 | the habits of herons. The bird that is called the poynx 90 IX, 18 | more prone than any other bird to peck at the eyes of an 91 IX, 21 | 21~There is a bird that lives on rocks, called 92 IX, 29 | as they say, this mother bird, when the young cuckoo has 93 IX, 29 | nest. The truth is, this bird is pre-eminent among birds 94 IX, 30 | stated that the footless bird, which some term the cypselus, 95 IX, 32 | sea-eagle" or "osprey". This bird has a large thick neck, 96 IX, 32 | and more crooked, and the bird dies eventually of starvation; 97 IX, 32 | it is said to be the only bird that resembles the gods. 98 IX, 32 | ease. It is a long-lived bird, and this fact might be 99 IX, 33 | Scythia there is found a bird as large as the great bustard. 100 IX, 34 | young from the nest, this bird catches them up as they 101 IX, 34 | watching the moment when the bird rises to the surface from 102 IX, 34 | until he either drowns the bird or catches him on the surface. 103 IX, 35 | by means of sea-foam; the bird snaps at the foam, and consequently 104 IX, 50 | hot irons, then, if the bird be full-grown, his crest 105 IX, 50 | but if you cauterize the bird when young, none of these 106 IX, 49B| the former is a winter bird, the latter a summer one, 107 IX, 49B| very stormy weather, this bird has been known to give its 108 IX, 49B| the rise of this star the bird called by some oenanthe 109 IX, 49B| and age, upon the selfsame bird.~The spangled raiment marks


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