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 1   I,  6  |            that they mate with and breed from one another. For all
 2 III,  21 |           of the so-called Pyrrhic breed, the name being given in
 3   v,  8  |     pairing. Some animals pair and breed in autumn also and in winter,
 4   v,  8  |          and with those birds that breed frequently. Many animals
 5   v,  8  |            has been said, pair and breed during the spring and early
 6   v,  9  | hiding-place.~Insects copulate and breed in winter also, that is
 7   v,  9  |           great majority of fishes breed only once a year, like the
 8   v,  9  |       trichias and the rock-fishes breed twice a year; the red mullet
 9   v,  10 |           the spotted dog, seem to breed twice a month, and this
10   v,  10 |         the same time.~Some fishes breed at all seasons, as the muraena.
11   v,  10 |          The pelamys and the tunny breed in the Euxine, and nowhere
12   v,  10 |           and the labrax or basse, breed best where rivers run into
13   v,  11 |          11~Fish for the most part breed some time or other during
14   v,  11 |           middle of June. Some few breed in autumn: as, for instance,
15   v,  11 |        such others of this sort as breed shortly before the autumn
16   v,  11 |           angel-fish. Other fishes breed both in winter and in summer,
17   v,  11 |         The ryades or shoal-fishes breed in summer.~Of the grey mullets,
18   v,  11 |        causing the same species to breed oftener in one place and
19   v,  12 |               12~The molluscs also breed in spring. Of the marine
20   v,  12 |       molluscs one of the first to breed is the sepia. It spawns
21   v,  13 |            a general rule pair and breed only once a year. The swallow,
22   v,  13 |         however, and the blackbird breed twice. With regard to the
23   v,  13 |           earliest of all birds to breed), but the second brood it
24   v,  13 |           capable of domestication breed frequently, just as the
25   v,  13 |           the turtle-dove. Pigeons breed and hatch at all seasons,
26   v,  13 |        they are so furnished, they breed only in the summer. The
27   v,  14 |            grows old, continues to breed, but the sexual desire abates.
28   v,  31 |        from ticks. Sheep and goats breed ticks, but do not breed
29   v,  31 |            breed ticks, but do not breed lice. Pigs breed lice large
30   v,  31 |            do not breed lice. Pigs breed lice large and hard. In
31  VI,  2  |     previous copulation can change breed, if before the change of
32  VI,  2  |        impregnated eggs follow the breed of the impregnator; but
33  VI,  2  |           egg does not take on the breed of the latter impregnator.
34  VI,  9  |           about twenty-five years, breed about the third year, and
35  VI,  20 |          The bitch of the Laconian breed generally bears eight. The
36  VI,  20 |            The dog of the Laconian breed lives ten years, and the
37  VI,  22 |         The male of the horse will breed at all seasons and during
38  VI,  24 |            and bear young; but the breed, though it resembles the
39  VI,  33 |       animal is opisthuretic. They breed and bear at all seasons,
40  VI,  37 |          There is also a different breed of mice that walk on their
41  VI,  37 |          their hind-legs long; the breed is exceedingly numerous.
42 VIII,  2 |       although they inhale air and breed on land, yet derive their
43 VIII,  2 |      breathe atmospheric air: they breed and rear their young on
44 VIII,  12|          Strymon to the Ister, and breed on the banks of this river.
45 VIII,  28|         that such pairs will often breed if they be nearly of the
46 VIII,  28|          the bitch will couple and breed; and the Laconian hound
47 VIII,  30|         Fishes, when they begin to breed, are nearly all good for
48 VIII,  30|         the female is beginning to breed the male turns black and
49  IX,  1  |          instance, in the Laconian breed of dogs the female is cleverer
50  IX,  1  |         the male. Of the Molossian breed of dogs, such as are employed
51  IX,  1  |             but sheep-dogs of this breed are superior to the others
52  IX,  1  |           that are born of a mixed breed between these two kinds
53  IX,  6  |            as large as the smaller breed of Maltese dogs. In the