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501 v, 14 | which various animals become capacitated for sexual commerce. The 502 IX, 1 | in man the qualities or capacities above referred to are found 503 v, 16 | sponges found beyond or inside Cape Malea are, respectively, 504 VIII, 12| rogue of a bird, and is a capital mimic; a bird-catcher will 505 IV, 11 | nicknamed the epitragiae, or capon-fish, and, by the way, fish of 506 IV, 9 | grunting kind of noise) and the caprus or boar-fish in the river 507 v, 27 | in a round-shaped case or capsule, and some are only partially 508 IX, 48 | until the fisherman let his captive go free; whereupon the shoal 509 IX, 7 | who keep decoy-birds in captivity. Some declare that the male 510 VIII, 2 | crawfish feeds on little fish, capturing them beside its hole or 511 VIII, 23| soon succumbs, and when the carcase is opened the lungs are 512 IX, 42 | away with the rest of the carcases; they are furthermore fond 513 IV, 4 | when the wind blows the carcinia take shelter against the 514 IV, 4 | on Anatomy.~The so-called carcinium or hermit crab is in a way 515 IX, 1 | admits more readily of caressing, is more apt in the way 516 IX, 1 | the fox, for as being a carnivore, he attacks these other 517 VI, 14 | egg of the carp and of the carp-species as big as a millet-seed.~ 518 VIII, 5 | it first allows to become carrion.~The lion, like all other 519 II, 17 | daw, the raven, and the carrion-crow. The quail also has the 520 v, 32 | the rest of its body is cased in a tunic as it were of 521 VIII, 17| outermost skin, and to the casing that envelops the developing 522 IX, 40 | apt to be spoiled by its cask; consequently, one should 523 v, 33 | eggs. It digs a hole of a casklike shape, and deposits therein 524 VIII, 5 | animals belong the so-called castor, the satyrium, the otter, 525 III, 7 | it. Some animals might on casual observation appear to have 526 VIII, 28| will eat her up, and this casualty is of frequent occurrence.~ 527 VIII, 20| other methods employed for catch-fish. It is a known fact that 528 VIII, 2 | Animals then have been categorized into terrestrial and aquatic 529 v, 2 | to sexual commerce, and caterwauls during the operation. Camels 530 IX, 44 | go again. They invade the cattle-folds and attack human beings 531 III, 5 | submitted to the actual cautery, but sinew, when submitted 532 I, 1 | the elephant; others are cautious and watchful, as the goose; 533 IX, 30 | roofing-under a rock or in a cavern-for protection against animals 534 VII, 3 | the seed falls with oil of cedar, or with ointment of lead 535 IX, 36 | sometimes called that of Cedripolis, men hunt for little birds 536 VII, 6 | case is like that of the celebrated mare in Pharsalus, that 537 IX, 1 | lark, the laedus and the celeus or green woodpecker; the 538 v, 23 | motionless, and the cell is cemented over. In the comb of the 539 II, 17 | oesophagus reaching the stomach centralwise in some cases and sideways 540 VIII, 28| close adjoining; and in Cephalenia there is a river on one 541 III, 1 | extremity of the so-called ceratia, or horns, the wombs of 542 IX, 41 | neither can we speak with certainty, as from observation, as 543 VIII, 3 | including a variety termed the cerylus, is found near the seaside. 544 VII, 5 | procreate in men, and the cessation of these functions in both 545 IX, 34 | consists of mice, lizards, chafers and the like little creatures. 546 IX, 7 | the bird mixes mud and chaff together; if it runs short 547 IX, 7 | places during the winter); chaffinches affect warm habitations 548 IX, 8 | with a counter-note of challenge, pushes forward to attack 549 IV, 9 | others cry or crow when challenging to combat, as the partridge, 550 v, 16 | place to place.)~In the chambered cavities of sponges pinna-guards 551 II, 11 | 11~The chameleon resembles the lizard in 552 IV, 11 | the erythrinus, and the channe; for these fish are in all 553 III, 3 | which the blood broadens its channel as a river that widens out 554 IV, 9 | locality. Vocal sounds are characterized chiefly by their pitch, 555 III, 19 | rapidly, and this property characterizes especially all parts connected 556 II, 14 | by some people used as a charm to bring luck in affairs 557 VIII, 24| wives and to the venders of charms. What is called the "polium" 558 VI, 28 | in with sheer cliffs and chasms and overshadowed by trees. 559 VI, 18 | setting on the new-comers to chastise the others.~Animals that 560 I, 1 | others are inclined to chastity, as the whole tribe of crows, 561 IX, 49B| and in winter a discordant chatter. The thrush also changes 562 IX, 16 | pleasant note. The so-called chatterer has a pleasant note, beautiful 563 VI, 18 | have the sexual feeling checked, and assume a downcast drooping 564 I, 11 | and the hinder part the cheek. All animals move the lower 565 III, 11 | parts are smooth and the cheeks are hairy; and, by the way, 566 III, 20 | milk they can get nineteen cheeses at an obol apiece, and from 567 IX, 45 | like that of the so-called chestnut horse, but rougher. It has 568 II, 1 | another, the sides called Chia outside, and the keraiae 569 v, 15 | number of husks of white chick-peas were all stuck together. 570 VIII, 21| rearing and fattening pigs is chickpeas and figs, but the one thing 571 VII, 1 | conceived, their labour in childbed is apt to be difficult.~ 572 VII, 4 | husbands shortly before childbirth are delivered all the more 573 IV, 7 | as from their minute size chill rapidly; though, by the 574 IX, 41 | combs they mould out of chips and earth, each comb from 575 II, 12 | woodpecker. Its note is a shrill chirp.~Birds are furnished with 576 IX, 24 | three species. One is the chough; it is as large as the crow, 577 IV, 8 | cestreus or mullet, the chremps, the labrax or basse, the 578 IX, 40 | old, after shedding its chrysalis-case, begins to work if it be 579 v, 30 | the city of Cyrene. The cicadae also lay their eggs in the 580 VIII, 28| Miletus, in one district cicadas are found while there are 581 v, 30 | cicada the "tettigonium" or cicadelle. And, by the way, such of 582 VIII, 24| not burst otherwise. The cicigna-called "chalcis" by some, and " 583 v, 19 | the river Hypanis in the Cimmerian Bosphorus, about the time 584 VIII, 3 | also the schoenilus, the cinclus, and the white-rump. Of 585 IV, 10 | asleep to envelop them in a circle of nets; and it is quite 586 IX, 31 | 31~In narrow circumscribed districts where the food 587 II, 17 | perch, the scorpaena, the citharus, the red mullet, and the 588 IX, 32 | in the neighbourhood of cities; some call it the "heron-killer". 589 IX, 49B| to his own distress,~Is clad by Zeus in variable dress:-~ 590 IX, 8 | one or by any other, only clandestinely without the victor’s knowledge; 591 IV, 7 | one another, these are not classified under one common designation, 592 IV, 7 | rarity we are unable to classify. Experienced fishermen affirm, 593 IV, 8 | dolphin-hunter; in other words they clatter stones together, that the 594 IV, 8 | and fishers catch it by clattering stones against the rock, 595 v, 28 | maturity, it comes out of its clayey investiture in the shape 596 IX, 40 | creature is remarkable for its cleanly habits; in point of fact, 597 VIII, 13| particularly careful to cleanse their nets, as the circumstance 598 I, 11 | kind is the best and the clearest in its discrimination of 599 VII, 11 | After parturition and the cleasing flood the milk comes in 600 III, 13 | as it admits neither of cleavage nor of extension. Membrane 601 VIII, 27| honeycomb: it is called the "cleros". It engenders an insect 602 IX, 40 | hives are first of all the clerus-this consists in a growth of 603 IX, 1 | breed of dogs the female is cleverer than the male. Of the Molossian 604 IX, 16 | plumage, makes a living cleverly, and is graceful in form; 605 IX, 32 | inaccessible ledge of a cliff; it does, however, build 606 I, 5 | largest that dwell in milder climates, and those that inhabit 607 III, 12 | Again, owing to special climatic influences, as when unusual 608 IX, 21 | It has large claws, and climbs on the face of the rocks. 609 VI, 18 | be healthy. Mares, when clipt of their coat, have the 610 III, 4 | creatures the passages get clogged, like water-channels choked 611 I, 17 | contain no blood, nor is any clot found therein. The kidneys, 612 v, 32 | spider be shut up in the cloth or wool, for the creature 613 IX, 44 | smooth-haired, in winter he is clothed in fur.~ 614 v, 32 | made of wool, as the ses or clothes-moth. And these animalcules come 615 VI, 18 | in an extraordinary way, clothing themselves with defensive 616 VI, 21 | as hard as stone when it clots; this result ensues unless 617 III, 20 | fatty element, which in clotted milk gets to resemble oil. 618 III, 20 | abundant. The best milk for clotting is not only that where the 619 IX, 10 | extensive view; if they see clouds and signs of bad weather 620 II, 1 | oryx, is single horned and cloven-hooved.~Of all solid-hooved animals 621 IX, 40 | bees inside the hive hang clustering to one another, it is a 622 v, 19 | resembling the seed of the cnecus, with a juice inside it. 623 v, 15 | quasi-liver) and the neck, and the co-attachment of these is an intimate 624 v, 27 | way, he has the habit of co-operating with the mother in the hatching. 625 II, 1 | inside; the sides called Coa turned towards one another, 626 II, 17 | one another, without any coalescence at the root, as is the case 627 v, 19 | threads thus unwound; a Coan woman of the name of Pamphila, 628 IX, 40 | they develop, a kind of cobweb grows over the entire hive, 629 v, 19 | it. It attaches itself by cobweb-like filaments, and is unfurnished 630 VII, 3 | quantity and so to speak cobwebby or interspersed with little 631 IX, 40 | they cannot brood, and the cobwebs come on. When the robber-bee 632 IV, 4 | land-snails, and the so-called cocalia, and, among pelagic animals, 633 v, 2 | covers her, and like the cock-sparrow consumes but very little 634 IX, 5 | the animal has its ears cocked, it can hear well and you 635 IV, 4 | certain kind of clam or cockle, and some are devoid of 636 III, 15 | shaped as closely to resemble cockleshells.~Such are the properties, 637 v, 19 | a caterpillar, then the cocoon, then the necydalus; and 638 v, 19 | unwind and reel off the cocoons of these creatures, and 639 III, 19 | developed out of ichor by coction, and fat in like manner 640 IX, 7 | young ones from the nest he cohabits with them all.) As a general 641 III, 5 | severed parts will not again cohere. A feeling of numbness is 642 VIII, 24| being filtered through a colander. The mare when pregnant 643 IX, 37 | for the narrow waters are colder than the outer sea, and 644 VIII, 14| days, others for only the coldest days, as the bee. For the 645 III, 7 | shins, which are termed colenes or limb-bones, a part of 646 I, 5 | and are bloodless some are coleopterous or sheath-winged, for they 647 III, 2 | upwards to the head, past the collar bones, through the throat. 648 III, 3 | to the sides and to the collarbones, and then pass on, in men 649 VI, 3 | membrane which envelops collectively the membrane wherein the 650 VI, 15 | surface, the so-called froth collects, as grubs swarm in manure; 651 IX, 37 | peculiarly subject to this colliquefaction; it becomes stupid; if tossed 652 IX, 23 | loud and high-pitched. The collyrion (or fieldfare) feeds on 653 IX, 49B| practically limited to the coloration of their plumage. In the 654 IX, 37 | been said, often uses its colouring pigment for concealment; 655 IX, 4 | take up the rearing of the colt. In point of fact, the mare 656 IX, 4 | rest.~When mares with their colts pasture together in the 657 I, 9 | the nostril be fleshy and comb-like, they are a sign of dishonesty.~ 658 IX, 1 | female with female, until one combatant kills the other, or one 659 IX, 32 | strength; it lives in mountain combes and glens, and by marshy 660 IV, 9 | of vowel and consonant in combination.)~Of animals which are furnished 661 I, 1 | gregarious, some are disposed to combine for social purposes, others 662 VIII, 2 | on temperament and diet combined, as well as upon its method 663 I, 6 | sea-urchins.~In the genus that combines all viviparous quadrupeds 664 I, 6 | order and sequence and of combining rational notions with physical 665 IX, 5 | hold its own against all comers. The male when it gets fat, 666 VIII, 12| pair off and manage pretty comfortably; but if a southerly wind 667 IX, 13 | out of the plant called comfrey, pulling it up by the roots, 668 IX, 10 | distance and up in the air, to command an extensive view; if they 669 VII, 4 | though labour has not in fact commenced, what seemed like the commencement 670 II, 17 | still, and the windpipe commences so close to the mouth that 671 VI, 21 | which leads the critics to commend Homer for applying to the 672 VII, 3 | lead or with frankincense, commingled with olive oil. If the seed 673 VI, 18 | constructed as they are, and commit all kinds of havoc. They 674 VIII, 21| the head, and this is the commoner of the two, the other with 675 III, 22 | sometimes it comes out dry and compact. Sperm capable of impregnating 676 IV, 11 | is less muscular and less compactly jointed, and more thin and 677 IX, 3 | resembling hair-all the companion goats will stand stock still, 678 I, 5 | that of the sheatfish, to compare little with great.~Of animals 679 VIII, 4 | squeezes himself into little compass, so that the swallowed mass 680 IX, 48 | their backs, trying out of compassion to prevent its being devoured 681 IX, 1 | perfection. Hence woman is more compassionate than man, more easily moved 682 IX, 44 | fear, but even if he be compelled by the multitude of the 683 VI, 18 | east or west. When this complaint is on them they allow no 684 VII, 2 | intercourse, women of a fair complexion discharge a more plentiful 685 IX, 5 | they go on increasing in complexity until the creature is six 686 v, 19 | assiduously gather up the compost, and this they technically 687 I, 6 | them one species does not comprehend many species; but in one 688 IX, 2 | spawned. To state the matter comprehensively, we may say that the following 689 IX, 39 | There is another kind, comprising the so-called wolf-spiders.) 690 IV, 2 | passage is attached to the concave surface of the flesh in 691 II, 1 | ones backwards, and the concavities of the two pairs of limbs 692 IV, 2 | convexity and this duct to the concavity, pretty much as is observed 693 VII, 4 | animal, the mare after once conceiving cannot be rendered pregnant 694 VIII, 1 | their interests and life concentrate. Their food depends chiefly 695 v, 22 | weather their attention is concentrated on the brood; and this will 696 IX, 40 | the extent of two or three concentric circular rows, are small 697 IX, 36 | it is said, wolves act in concert with the fishermen, and 698 v, 15 | it feeds, and perforates conchylia and the shells of its own 699 v, 14 | ground, and the pair will conclude the operation side by side 700 v, 19 | indication the physician concludes that his patient is troubled 701 III, 2 | attenuation have arrived at conclusions regarding the origin of 702 VI, 2 | that is if there be no concomitant pathological circumstances. 703 III, 11 | circumstances the hair hardens concomitantly with its growth, and the 704 III, 19 | pus may turn into a solid concretion.~Blood in the female differs 705 III, 15 | instances have been known of concretions in the bladder so shaped 706 VII, 2 | watery and pungent diet conduces to this phenomenon.~ 707 VI, 12 | kids are forthcoming. It conducts its young ones, when they 708 v, 24 | humble-bee that builds a cone-shaped nest of clay against a stone 709 IX, 5 | at a signal given by the confederate. If the animal has its ears 710 IX, 49B| twofold form and colour are conferred,~In youth and age, upon 711 v, 14 | this statement is made more confidently in respect to the she-goat 712 VI, 21 | often gets the better of the conflict. The bull and the cow are 713 VI, 2 | whereas the white instead of congealing is inclined rather to liquefy. 714 IX, 7 | rule these birds show this conjugal fidelity, but occasionally 715 III, 6 | 6~The ines (or fibrous connective tissue) are a something 716 IX, 1 | dreads the sound of his conqueror’s voice. These animals differ 717 IX, 29 | the mother cuckoo is quite conscious of her own cowardice and 718 VII, 3 | parts, it having hitherto consisted of a fleshlike substance 719 IV, 9 | or a sound of vowel and consonant in combination.)~Of animals 720 IV, 9 | vowel sounds; non-vocal or consonantal sounds are made by the tongue 721 VI, 9 | other times, and this is conspicuously the case with the more salacious 722 VI, 29 | another. The stag is not constant to one particular hind, 723 VII, 12 | flatulency are also bad, and constipation too is prejudicial. The 724 VIII, 2 | water dissolves into its constituents, the fresh water from its 725 VII, 1 | and women are liable to constitutional change, growing healthier 726 VI, 21 | even more, if their bodily constitutions be sound. The herdsmen tame 727 IV, 2 | adapted for apprehension and constriction. Above the two large claws 728 III, 19 | adventitious part, but it is a consubstantial part of all animals that 729 III, 1 | species, the reader should consult my treatise on Anatomy, 730 v, 2 | and like the cock-sparrow consumes but very little time in 731 III, 11 | diseases, especially in consumption, and in old age, and after 732 VIII, 12| migration from cold countries is contemporaneous with the close of the hot 733 II, 2 | are entertained, as some contend that they shed no teeth 734 III, 1 | the testicle has its moist content qualified by blood, but 735 VII, 4 | acute, and they are less contented when they have got what 736 IX, 37 | spawn is most abundant, contenting himself with keeping off 737 VI, 13 | diminutive size and thin contexture. The pairing of fishes has 738 VII, 1 | a man, but not so in the continent. For if a lad strive diligently 739 VII, 10 | her wits about her in all contingencies, and especially in the operation 740 I, 1 | inarticulate; some are given to continual chirping and twittering 741 v, 16 | detach it. It makes a similar contractile movement in windy and boisterous 742 VIII, 4 | the very tip, and then he contracts and squeezes himself into 743 II, 1 | parts as these move them contrariwise to man.~Birds have the flexions 744 VIII, 1 | to vegetables, if they be contrasted with such animals as are 745 VII, 10 | other animals there is no contrasting difference between one bone 746 I, 6 | particular, on analogy, or on contrasts of the accidental qualities.~ 747 III, 22 | As to what, and how, it contributes to generation, these questions 748 VI, 18 | rearing of the young at a convenient season.~Domesticated swine 749 v, 3 | organ in which the ducts converge, and with which they perform 750 II, 17 | like fishes, has two ducts converging into one, and an ovary long 751 VII, 2 | particular superfluity being converted into bodily substance; and 752 IV, 2 | the gut is related to the convexity and this duct to the concavity, 753 I, 17 | and one of the passages conveys it to the right cavity, 754 IV, 2 | unlike flesh. Off from the convolute organ at the chest branches 755 IV, 2 | properties of the egg and of the convolutes in the carid.)~The male, 756 VII, 12 | very commonly subject to convulsions, more especially such of 757 IX, 49B| the ring-dove ceases to coo in winter, and recommences 758 IX, 10 | smooth mussel-shells: after cooking them inside the crop that 759 VIII, 20| insert a weel; they then coop the fish in towards this 760 II, 11 | through like a thin ring of copper. Membranes extend well nigh 761 v, 19 | Cyprus, in places where copper-ore is smelted, with heaps of 762 IX, 5 | the flies, hide in thick copses; during this time, until 763 v, 7 | of the residuum. In the copulative process of these animals 764 II, 10 | have they breasts, nor a copulatory organ, nor external testicles, 765 VIII, 15| notably, the hippurus and coracinus in winter time; for, whereas 766 VIII, 2 | is known, the so-called cordylus or water-newt; this creature 767 II, 1 | derived from the skin, but the core round which this is wrapped-the 768 VIII, 3 | size-and the water-raven or cormorant. This bird is the size of 769 VI, 37 | that but very little of the corn-crop is left to the farmer; and 770 II, 12 | over the eye from the inner corner; the owl and its congeners 771 I, 9 | eyelid is a pair of nicks or corners, one in the direction of 772 VIII, 1 | life as compared with other corporeal entities. Indeed, as we 773 VII, 2 | moist habit and not over corpulent, and fair men in greater 774 VII, 1 | other take place at the cost of natural healthy conditions.~ 775 VIII, 26| prescription will prove a costive. When they suffer from insomnia, 776 IV, 8 | small river-fish called the cottus or bullhead; this creature 777 VIII, 9 | five mareis of wine-six cotylae going to the maris. An elephant 778 v, 19 | The tick is generated from couch-grass. The cockchafer comes from 779 I, 16 | pain until you shall have coughed up whatever may have gone 780 IV, 8 | spot so far off that they count upon no noise being likely 781 I, 11 | there is a part of the countenance that serves as a passage 782 IX, 8 | of the wild birds, with a counter-note of challenge, pushes forward 783 I, 1 | movement to detach it be not covertly applied.~Other creatures 784 v, 28 | is they lay their eggs in cracks of the soil. During the 785 v, 8 | Holy Season, when the deep~Cradles the mother Halcyon and her 786 IV, 8 | Furthermore, when engaged in their craft, fishermen are particularly 787 I, 1 | characteristics.~Further, some are crafty and mischievous, as the 788 IX, 11 | its nest on inaccessible crags, and is found only in a 789 IX, 17 | 17~The crake is quarrelsome, clever at 790 v, 19 | raphanus, which some call crambe or cabbage. At first it 791 IV, 2 | very different with the crangon, or squilla; it has four 792 IV, 2 | cyphae, or "hunch-backs", the crangons, or squillae, and the little 793 IV, 1 | close after that a crop or craw, large and spherical, like 794 IV, 2 | deposits her spawn.~The crawfishes have five feet on either 795 IV, 4 | resembling those little crayfish that are also found in fresh 796 VII, 1 | associated with former indulgence creates a longing for its repetition.~ 797 v, 22 | nine years, or ten, great credit is considered due to its 798 v, 19 | daughter of Plateus, being credited with the first invention 799 IV, 8 | testaceans, of the walking or creeping species the urchin appears 800 IX, 40 | pulse, myrtle, poppies, creeping-thyme, and almond-trees. Some 801 I, 1 | and others not, some have crests and others not; but as a 802 VIII, 28| galley and set upon the crew. Again, lions are more numerous 803 v, 14 | hind. Moreover, the male cries chiefly at rutting time, 804 IX, 12 | complete domestication; it is a cripple, as being weak in its hinder 805 II, 1 | is a kind of imperfect or crippled quadruped; for just behind 806 VII, 6 | few; for the children of cripples are mostly sound, and there 807 v, 20 | of interval at which the crises recur in intermittent fevers.~ 808 VIII, 10| shaggy-fleeced; and sheep with crisp wool stand the rigour of 809 VI, 2 | resembling the egg at a critical point of its growth-that 810 IX, 40 | a hive by rattling with crockery or stones; it is uncertain, 811 IX, 49B| and the sparrow; of the crooked-taloned birds the greater part take 812 IX, 32 | alight upon rock, as the crookedness of their talons prevents 813 I, 5 | other words, they all move cross-corner-wise. And animals in general 814 III, 4 | the groins and the thighs cross-garter fashion, from right to left 815 VII, 1 | like manner, so Alcmaeon of Croton remarks, as plants first 816 v, 10 | fishes, with the coracine or crow-fish: it spawns, by the way, 817 IV, 8 | when they want the fish to crowd together, they adopt the 818 IX, 49 | these duties as to cease crowing and indulging his sexual 819 I, 7 | say, some men are double crowned, not in regard to the bony 820 II, 1 | interlock but have flat opposing crowns, as the horse and the ox; 821 I, 1 | chastity, as the whole tribe of crows, for birds of this kind 822 IX, 14 | your hand, it will soon crumble to pieces, like the halosachne. 823 VI, 13 | of the goby is flat and crumbly. Fish in general so deposit 824 VIII, 2 | seizes, stone or other, it crunches into bits, but when it leaves 825 IV, 3 | organs of the malacostraca or crustacea.~ 826 I, 5 | can.~The hard-skinned or crustaceous animals, like the crawfish, 827 VIII, 28| and in India, according to Ctesias-no very good authority, by 828 VI, 18 | she-bear is fierce after cubbing, and the bitch after pupping.~ 829 VIII, 30| the span of its tail two cubits and a palm broad.~River-fish 830 IX, 6 | they at once take to eating cuckoo-pint, as has been said, and chew 831 IX, 42 | Anthrenae do not subsist by culling from flowers as bees do, 832 IX, 40 | progeny of bees that inhabit cultivated land and of those from the 833 v, 22 | furnished with a calyx or cup, and from all other flowers 834 III, 20 | and rennet are employed to curdle milk. The fig-juice is first 835 III, 20 | mixed with other milk it curdles Rennet is a kind of milk, 836 VIII, 24| cleans the foal. All the curious stories connected with the 837 III, 10 | inclined to be soft, and curly hair to be bristly.~ 838 IX, 44 | species of lions, the plump, curly-maned, and the long-bodied, straight 839 VI, 35 | give it merely as it is currently told. There is no more of 840 VIII, 13| swim in shoals with the currents, or congregate in shoals 841 III, 17 | of limiting their food by curtailment of the hours of pasture.~ 842 IX, 40 | pass it on to the hollow curves of the hind-legs; when thus 843 v, 17 | the gristly formations by curving the flap of its tail, and 844 II, 11 | up this aperture with the cutaneous envelope. It keeps twisting 845 IV, 6 | hide and shell, so that it cuts like a piece of hard leather. 846 IV, 4 | just described is named the cyllarus.)~The nerites has a smooth 847 IX, 19 | This latter is found on Cyllene in Arcadia, and is found 848 v, 31 | peculiar to the animal, the Cynoroestes. In all animals that are 849 VI, 2 | that are called by some cynosura and uria are produced chiefly 850 IV, 2 | there are the so-called cyphae, or "hunch-backs", the crangons, 851 III, 21 | in Epirus yield each one daily some nine gallons of milk, 852 IX, 43 | slices of fish and the like dainties. The tenthredon brings forth, 853 VIII, 13| swims northwards into the Danube, and then at the point of 854 VI, 10 | which is called by some the "dappled shark", the young are born 855 v, 2 | and none but their keeper dare approach them. And, be it 856 VII, 1 | and all the more among the dark-complexioned than the fair.~At the outset 857 VII, 4 | experience a sensation of darkness in front of the eyes and 858 VIII, 2 | makes its escape backwards, darting off to a great distance. 859 IV, 8 | bewildered at the noise, darts out of its hiding-place. 860 VIII, 2 | mullet feeds on mud, the dascyllus on mud and offal, the scarus 861 III, 12 | lower side.~The hare, or dasypod, is the only animal known 862 v, 14 | no more. So much for the dates in time at which these animals 863 VII, 6 | blackamoor.~As a rule the daughters have a tendency to take 864 IX, 24 | 24~Of daws there are three species. 865 I, 5 | motion; as, for instance, the dayfly moves with four feet and 866 v, 16 | greaves, for the purpose of deadening the sound of the blow; and 867 VIII, 29| gecko is fatal. But the deadliest of all bites of venomous 868 IV, 9 | good. Men that are born deaf are in all cases also dumb; 869 v, 15 | extract the organ; but in dealing with the larger ones they 870 VIII, 1 | them and have no further dealings with them; other animals 871 VII, 1 | respective organs has been dealt with heretofore. When twice 872 VII, 12 | prejudicial. The majority of deaths in infancy occur before 873 VII, 5 | it they grow relaxed and debilitated.~The beginning of child-bearing 874 v, 14 | less impotent from age or debility, finding itself unable to 875 v, 19 | off of water. This slime decays, and first turns white, 876 IX, 8 | bird has mischievous and deceitful habits. In the spring-time, 877 IX, 1 | more false of speech, more deceptive, and of more retentive memory. 878 VIII, 19| vessel and falls back on the deck. The tunny delights more 879 VI, 5 | father of Bryson the Sophist, declares that vultures belong to 880 IX, 47 | 47~The male camel declines intercourse with its mother; 881 IX, 8 | pushes forward to attack the decoy-bird, and after he has been netted, 882 IX, 7 | blinded by fanciers for use as decoys, live for eight years. Partridges 883 VIII, 20| During dry weather they decrease in size and degenerate in 884 VI, 24 | in consequence a public decree was passed forbidding any 885 III, 11 | existence in a withered or decrepit condition.~In the eruptive 886 III, 11 | case, imply withering or decrepitude, for no part is brought 887 IX, 8 | where cocks are set apart as dedicate without hens, they all as 888 VIII, 13| consistent, whereas the flesh of deep-water fishes is flaccid and watery.~ 889 VI, 18 | much tinged with blood, but deeply dyed with it by and by. 890 IX, 5 | technically termed its "defenders"; with these the patriarchs 891 IX, 45 | thoroughly exhausted. It defends itself against an assailant 892 III, 17 | consequently in this district they defer driving out sheep to pasture 893 III, 6 | animals; and, owing to this deficiency of the fibrous tissue, the 894 IX, 40 | especially when the hive is deficient in grubs, and a swarm is 895 VIII, 2 | accordingly supplement our definition of the term "aquatic" or " 896 I, 1 | thorough-bred if it does not deflect from its racial characteristics.~ 897 VII, 4 | they be born subject to deformity, in these places the eight-months’ 898 VIII, 16| notorious of all, for we would defy any one to assert that he 899 VIII, 20| they decrease in size and degenerate in quality; and it is during 900 VIII, 24| full force, it preserves a dejected spiritless appearance; some 901 III, 1 | the fish, the wombs are delicately formed, membranous, and 902 v, 14 | no good. The bitch, after delivering a litter, submits to the 903 VI, 35 | Hyperboreans to the island of Delos, she assumed the form of 904 III, 1 | is termed the hystera or delphys, whence is derived the word 905 IX, 32 | is that a pair of eagles demands an extensive space for its 906 VIII, 1 | determine the exact line of demarcation, nor on which side thereof 907 IX, 39 | superfluity or excretion, as Democritus avers, but off their body 908 III, 11 | smoothness on the eyebrows is denoted by a special term which 909 VI, 14 | spawns in deep water in dense shoals of fish; and the 910 VIII, 16| often found in holes, quite denuded of their feathers, and the 911 IX, 48 | free; whereupon the shoal departed. A shoal of young dolphins 912 v, 29 | matter of accident and to depend on luck.~ 913 III, 18 | and are beginning to grow depthways.~ 914 VIII, 19| exceptional among fishes in deriving benefit from drought, and 915 III, 1 | testicles and the ducts descending thereunto; the ducts extending 916 III, 1 | called the "penis".~All these descriptive particulars may be regarded 917 IV, 8 | if they are anxious to descry the size of the fish and 918 IX, 40 | fair, they fly away and desert the hive. They feed on honey 919 III, 12 | reason, they say, why Homer designates it the "Yellow River." Animals 920 IX, 12 | fight the eagle with such desperation that the two combatants 921 IX, 29 | to the alien to devour, despising her own young owing to the 922 IX, 1 | furthermore, more prone to despondency and less hopeful than the 923 I, 1 | alleged that the difficulty in detaching it from its moorings is 924 v, 18 | not yet to be discerned in detail, but their general outline 925 I, 6 | the investigation of the details is complete is the proper 926 III, 19 | best, before it undergoes deterioration from either natural decay 927 VII, 11 | For, speaking generally, a determination of moisture does not take 928 IX, 41 | sexually united, but it was not determined whether both, or neither, 929 IX, 45 | distance of eight yards; this device it can easily adopt over 930 VII, 1 | as some do of those who devote themselves to music, the 931 VIII, 18| Sickness in birds may be diagnosed from their plumage, which 932 II, 1 | multiped, are crosswise, or in diagonals, and their equilibrium in 933 IV, 2 | to review their several differentiae.~The crawfish then, as has 934 VIII, 6 | some animals with teeth differently formed, as the mouse. Animals 935 VI, 29 | keep each one to himself, dig a hole in the ground, and 936 IV, 11 | subjected to the process of digestion like ordinary food. When 937 VII, 3 | also difficult. But if on digital examination the lips feel 938 VII, 1 | continent. For if a lad strive diligently to hinder his voice from 939 VI, 21 | unless it be previously diluted with water. Oxen younger 940 II, 7 | neigh of a horse, and the dimensions of an ass. The hide is so 941 VI, 3 | only by degrees that they diminish in size and collapse. At 942 VI, 3 | inside). By and by the yolk, diminishing gradually in size, at length 943 IX, 1 | feeds on grass, and sees too dimly to foresee an attack; it 944 IV, 10 | rest at night-time from dimness of vision (and, by the way, 945 I, 5 | exception, devoid of stings; the diptera have the sting in front, 946 IX, 5 | juice, but the taste is disagreeable. The hinds after parturition 947 VI, 37 | entire crop devoured. Their disappearance is unaccountable: in a few 948 IX, 49B| But evermore, in sullen discontent,~He seeks the lonely hills, 949 IX, 40 | production of young bees is discontinued only for the forty days 950 VI, 9 | her going off the eggs and discontinuing the brooding.~With male 951 IX, 49B| musical note and in winter a discordant chatter. The thrush also 952 III, 2 | dissecting room have failed to discover the chief roots of the veins, 953 IX, 8 | under their wings. Not to be discovered, as might be the case if 954 IX, 5 | places difficult of access or discovery, whence the proverbial expression 955 VI, 27 | for three years; and the discrepancy in the assigned periods 956 IX, 7 | suffer no other perceptible disfigurement by their increase in age. 957 IX, 40 | water near at hand, they disgorge their honey as they drink 958 III, 3 | Transpierc’d his back with a dishonest wound;~The hollow vein that 959 I, 9 | comb-like, they are a sign of dishonesty.~All animals, as a general 960 IX, 40 | of kings should lead to a dismemberment of the hive. They kill them 961 IX, 1 | tractable, but after he has dismounted, some are tame and others 962 IX, 40 | become idle also, as being dispirited, if the hive be too big. 963 VIII, 24| of the flanks; and so is displacement of the bladder, which is 964 IX, 49B| The argent his maturity displays;~And when the fields are 965 VIII, 19| will, because it is warm, disport itself on the surface of 966 IV, 8 | fish feeding at a distance, disporting themselves in calm bright 967 IX, 29 | shows great sagacity in the disposal of its progeny; the fact 968 VI, 1 | in nests, but such as are disqualified for flight, as the partridge 969 III, 2 | investigations on dead bodies in the dissecting room have failed to discover 970 I, 9 | the temples, of humour and dissimulation; such as are drawn in towards 971 IX, 1 | at war with one another "dissociates", and those that dwell in 972 IV, 10 | prognosticates either actual dissolution or a general break-up of 973 IV, 8 | they come at once from long distances and swim into it. And all 974 IX, 11 | that it belongs to some distant and elevated land. The reason 975 VIII, 17| the view of opening up and distending the gut.~The dormouse actually 976 v, 22 | of trees, while honey is distilled from dew, and is deposited 977 VI, 11 | actual breeding time their distinctness is not obvious to a non-expert. 978 I, 8 | ones, they are apt to be distraught; when they have foreheads 979 VIII, 12| prevail they are greatly distressed owing to the difficulties 980 III, 5 | ones-whereas the sinews are distributed about the joints and the 981 VIII, 2 | when fishing for eels, they disturb the water. In the river 982 IX, 6 | arrows, to go in search of dittany, which is supposed to have 983 III, 4 | great vein at the points of divarication there branch off other veins. 984 IX, 37 | impassively; a man, if he dived, could catch it with the 985 III, 1 | serpent genus also present divergencies either when compared with 986 IX, 49B| sing most loudly and most diversely in the pairing season. The 987 IX, 8 | to be trodden by him and divert him from the decoy. The 988 IX, 34 | sea-eagle, he in terror dives under, intending to rise 989 IX, 6 | be a cure for strangury; doctors scrape it into powder, and 990 v, 10 | eight young. Certain of the dog-fishes, for example the spotted 991 II, 8 | and its teeth are more dog-like and more powerful.~Apes 992 v, 19 | caterpillars found on the dog-rose; and the cantharis takes 993 II, 15 | close to the liver, as the dogfishes, the sheat-fish, the rhine 994 IV, 8 | adopt the stratagem of the dolphin-hunter; in other words they clatter 995 VIII, 17| distending the gut.~The dormouse actually hides in a tree, 996 I, 15 | part of the "kneecap", the double-boned part the "leg"; the front 997 IX, 40 | also for the grubs, are double-doored; for two cells are ranged 998 I, 15 | leg". Of this limb the double-knobbed part is termed the "thigh-bone", 999 IV, 7 | insects are dipterous or double-winged, as the fly; others are 1000 VII, 4 | months are held to be in doubtful case; inasmuch as with them 1001 VIII, 2 | statement is incorrect; it is doubtless founded on the fact that