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1502 IX, 13 | old birds are fed by their grateful progeny. Some tell a similar 1503 VIII, 5 | burrow in a graveyard to gratify this propensity.~The bear 1504 v, 20 | of mud on a wall or on a grave-stone, and there deposit their 1505 VIII, 5 | flesh, and will burrow in a graveyard to gratify this propensity.~ 1506 III, 7 | impossible to grave with a graving tool.~On the upper part 1507 VI, 18 | breeding time begins to graze with the cows, and fights 1508 VI, 18 | other bulls (having hitherto grazed with them), which is termed 1509 IX, 1 | of the field where he is grazing: the bird feeds on grass, 1510 IX, 40 | and suppurating sores. The greasy stuff that comes next is 1511 v, 16 | a lining to helmets and greaves, for the purpose of deadening 1512 VIII, 5 | carnivorous. It devours its food greedily and fiercely, and often 1513 IX, 40 | never observed to be so greedy, but apparently are thrifty 1514 VIII, 3 | the size of a turtle-dove, green-coloured all over, that pecks at 1515 IX, 13 | a depth of six feet.~The greenfinch, so called from the colour 1516 VIII, 3 | food. There is also the greenpie, a bird about the size of 1517 IX, 49B| the hawk’s white wing~He greets the apparition of the Spring.~ 1518 IX, 40 | varieties, of which six are gregarious-the bee, the king-bee, the drone 1519 VIII, 15| summer, as the glaucus or grey-back; this fish hides in summer 1520 IV, 2 | The lobster is all over grey-coloured, with a mottling of black. 1521 I, 10 | some distinctly blue, some greyish-blue, some greenish; and this 1522 III, 11 | and this is a proof that greyness of hair does not, as some 1523 II, 5 | which it munches its food, grinding it like so much barley-meal, 1524 III, 4 | another set run through the groins and the thighs cross-garter 1525 III, 4 | Some of these run to the groins-large hollow veins-and then pass 1526 VIII, 2 | thinness percolates through the grosser parts; in fact, they live 1527 IX, 40 | and the tenthredo (or ground-wasp); three are solitary-the 1528 IX, 40 | material they besmear the groundwork, to provide against attacks 1529 VI, 17 | nickname the "auxids" or "growers", from their growing to 1530 IX, 37 | is much stronger than the grown-up one. Neither does the sepia 1531 VI, 2 | a critical point of its growth-that is, when it is yellow all 1532 I, 5 | others vermiparous or "grub-bearing". Some are viviparous, such 1533 v, 20 | four weeks. With grubs and grub-like creatures the time is usually 1534 VIII, 3 | another bird called the "grub-picker" (or tree-creeper), about 1535 VI, 28 | congener. The sound of the grunt also is similar; only that 1536 IV, 9 | for these fishes make a grunting kind of noise) and the caprus 1537 VI, 28 | similar; only that the sow grunts continually, and the boar 1538 I, 1 | merely have some means of guarding themselves against attack.~ 1539 IX, 37 | in the lagoon the white gudgeon is not a marine fish. Of 1540 VI, 15 | parent fishes: the so-called gudgeon-fry of small insignificant gudgeon-like 1541 VI, 15 | gudgeon-fry of small insignificant gudgeon-like fish that burrow under the 1542 IX, 1 | becomes tame, and obeys guidance. Now when the driver is 1543 IX, 1 | mounts a wild brute and guides him with the application 1544 VI, 2 | mottled, as the eggs of the guinea-fowl and the pheasant; while 1545 IX, 41 | gathering a substance sticky and gumlike. A large number of mother-wasps 1546 IV, 9 | voice", as the lyra or gurnard, and the sciaena (for these 1547 I, 13 | hypochondrium and the flank is the gut-cavity.~Serving as a brace girdle 1548 II, 17 | some cases the stomach is gut-shaped, as with the scarus, or 1549 VI, 16 | from the so-called "earth's guts" that grow spontaneously 1550 IX, 40 | round and round in a kind of gymnastic exercise; when this is over, 1551 VIII, 2 | molluscs. Other fishes feed habitually on mud or sea-weed or sea-moss 1552 v, 18 | the egg, something like a hail-stone; and out of this substance 1553 VI, 2 | another. The so-called "hail-stones", or treadles, that are 1554 IV, 1 | like in appearance to white hailstones. For the disposition of 1555 IX, 3 | of a substance resembling hair-all the companion goats will 1556 II, 1 | thickness or thinness of hair-coating; that is, with animals that 1557 I, 7 | the head is composed the hair-covered portion is called the "skull". 1558 v, 19 | named the bostrychus (or hair-curl).~Gnats grow from ascarids; 1559 IV, 11 | thin and delicate in the hair-that is, where hair is found; 1560 III, 22 | than any other animal. In hairy-coated animals the sperm is sticky, 1561 VIII, 29| is about an ell long, and hairy-looking; whenever it bites an animal, 1562 VIII, 3 | Moreover, the family of the halcyons or kingfishers live by the 1563 IX, 36 | broaded-winged hawk is called the half-buzzard; others go by the name of 1564 IX, 32 | of "mountain-stork" or "half-eagle". It lives in groves; has 1565 III, 7 | constituted of bone, and are half-way perforated; and the bone 1566 VI, 22 | it be held in check by a halter or some other compulsion 1567 II, 15 | the pipe-fish, and the hammer-headed shark. The callionymus, 1568 VII, 6 | things have been known to be handed down through three generations; 1569 IX, 18 | all-the white heron has handsome plumage, unites without 1570 IV, 8 | possesses a sense of taste hangs by the proof of its sense 1571 IV, 10 | vision (and, by the way, all hard-eyed creatures see but indistinctly), 1572 III, 10 | with good feeding, and with hard-haired or bristly animals it gets 1573 I, 6 | is another genus of the hard-shell kind, which is called oyster; 1574 VI, 2 | case of all birds alike is hard-shelled, if it be the produce of 1575 I, 5 | poulpe or octopus can.~The hard-skinned or crustaceous animals, 1576 VI, 20 | with the female after being hard-worked than when allowed to live 1577 III, 11 | the hair goes on gradually hardening into bristle until it no 1578 VI, 20 | Laconian hound, owing to the hardships to which the male is put, 1579 IX, 32 | the black-eagle" or "the hare-killer"; it is the only eagle that 1580 I, 15 | and "lower" are used in harmony with their natural positions; 1581 IX, 18 | prey; it is at war with the harpy, as the two birds live on 1582 VI, 6 | abstain from food, to avoid harrying the young of wild animals. 1583 VII, 1 | begins to alter, getting harsher and more uneven, neither 1584 I, 9 | in towards the nose, of harshness; such as curve out towards 1585 IV, 8 | may be banished with burnt hart’s horn, or better still 1586 v, 21 | proof that, when the olive harvest is most abundant, the swarms 1587 IX, 39 | any damage done and then hastens again to its quest of prey. 1588 II, 1 | extending from the hoof to the haunch.~Again, in respect to the 1589 VIII, 2 | in motion and quits its haunt, the sargue settles down 1590 VI, 18 | and commit all kinds of havoc. They also state that abundancy 1591 v, 18 | the young sepia grows by a head-attachment, just as young birds grow 1592 IX, 6 | excrement, which is said to heal its pain. This panther’s-bane 1593 III, 15 | cases, for instances of healing have been known to occur. 1594 VII, 10 | where it has been tied it heals up, and the remaining portion 1595 VIII, 24| languor, and heavy breathing. Heart-ache also is incurable, of which 1596 IX, 12 | Chalcis its name with those of heavenly birth,~But called Cymindis 1597 VI, 17 | commencement of the month of Hecatombaeon; they deposit their spawn 1598 IV, 1 | two others, one called the heledone, which differs from its 1599 v, 16 | sponge is used as a lining to helmets and greaves, for the purpose 1600 v, 19 | living animal, like the helminthes or intestinal worms. And 1601 IX, 7 | will take care it is not helped twice over; at first the 1602 IX, 7 | young one that has had a helping, and will take care it is 1603 IX, 1 | fox the raven comes and helps the animal. The vulture 1604 II, 1 | however, has something like a hemiastragal, and the lion something 1605 I, 6 | animals that are called Hemioni in Syria,-from their externally 1606 VI, 28 | inaccessible to intrusion, hemmed in with sheer cliffs and 1607 IV, 8 | as was said; but, after hemming the shoal in, they call 1608 v, 33 | eggs the next year. The hemys, or fresh-water tortoise, 1609 VI, 2 | because at spring-time hen-birds are observed to inhale the 1610 VI, 2 | and be laid by a healthy hen-for some hens lay soft eggs. 1611 VI, 2 | as for instance with the hen-partridge when in heat. The fact is 1612 VI, 4 | destroyed, for many of the hen-pigeons destroy the first brood. 1613 II, 17 | in small numbers, as the hepatus and the glaucus; and, by 1614 VI, 18 | which is termed by graziers "herd-spurning". Often in Epirus a bull 1615 VIII, 7 | wax, pitch, or olive oil. Herded cattle suffer more when 1616 v, 1 | where generation goes by heredity, wherever there is duality 1617 IV, 4 | The so-called carcinium or hermit crab is in a way intermediate 1618 v, 15 | the coast of Caria.)~The hermit-crab grows spontaneously out 1619 III, 22 | white in all cases, and Herodotus is under a misapprehension 1620 IX, 32 | cities; some call it the "heron-killer". It is bold enough to fly 1621 VIII, 18| to drink at all, though Hesiod appears to have been ignorant 1622 v, 23 | Their combs are in all cases hexagonal like the comb of the bee. 1623 v, 9 | such, I mean, as do not hibernate, as the fly and the ant. 1624 VIII, 15| hibernation a few tunnies or other hibernating fishes are caught while 1625 VIII, 15| rest of the year they are hid and enjoying immunity. About 1626 I, 1 | noble and courageous and high-bred, as the lion; others are 1627 VI, 29 | young by the side of the high-road. The young fawn grows with 1628 I, 1 | by the way, an animal is highbred if it come from a noble 1629 III, 3 | the right-hand side and highest up; the least one is on 1630 IX, 47 | the king of Scythia had a highly-bred mare, and that all her foals 1631 VIII, 3 | its habitat is called the hill-titmouse; the third resembles the 1632 VIII, 21| will be unable to keep its hind-feet at rest. Pigs never take 1633 II, 1 | both its fore-limbs and hind-limbs backwards; but in the case 1634 IV, 11 | better that may be termed hinder-parts or underparts. And this 1635 VI, 23 | genital sperm unless it be hindered, and for this reason it 1636 v, 5 | the selachia copulating hindways, dog and bitch. In the cartilaginous 1637 IV, 4 | and the bivalves at the hinge connecting the two valves. 1638 III, 7 | the haunch-bone, comes the hip-socket; then the leg-bones, those 1639 IV, 9 | faint cry; in others, a low hiss, like the tortoise. The 1640 VIII, 10| vigorous sheep are covered with hoar-frost while the weakly ones are 1641 IV, 9 | produced is like that of a hoarse trumpet.~ 1642 IX, 36 | others go by the name of hobby-hawk, or sparrow-hawk, or "smooth-feathered", 1643 I, 1 | oysters and the so-called holothuria. Some can swim, as, for 1644 v, 8 | temperate interlude~Men call the Holy Season, when the deep~Cradles 1645 IX, 37 | call these signal-fishes "holy-fish". It is a sort of perpetual 1646 VIII, 29| snake, by some entitled the "holy-snake", which is dreaded by even 1647 VII, 6 | that got the name of the Honest Wife.~ 1648 v, 15 | caught before producing this honey-comb, they sometimes go through 1649 III, 21 | the name being given in honour of King Pyrrhus.~Some pasture 1650 II, 1 | strong looking, with a hook-nosed muzzle, and with horns lying 1651 v, 19 | furnished with wings, which can hop or crawl through the fire. 1652 IX, 1 | to despondency and less hopeful than the man, more void 1653 III, 10 | furnished with feet have horn-like tessellates; fishes, and 1654 II, 1 | the upper jaw; and some hornless animals, also, are not double 1655 III, 17 | coagulate, as is found with horse-flesh and pork; but soups made 1656 IX, 2 | sea-gudgeon, the bogue, the horse-mackerel, the coracine, the synodon 1657 VI, 22 | previously formed embryo.~(Horse-trainers do not appoint a horse as 1658 VIII, 28| where it was landed. The horseman-ant is not found in Sicily; 1659 IV, 2 | that are nicknamed the "horsemen", from their running with 1660 VI, 18 | drugs and potions. About horsing time the mares huddle closer 1661 II, 15 | is so bitter that even hounds refuse to eat it unless 1662 IX, 40 | the manner of a double (or hour-glass-shaped) goblet. The cells that 1663 VIII, 12| just as men seek shelter in houses in winter, or as men of 1664 IV, 8 | on hearing the noise and hubbub the fish are sure to tumble 1665 II, 1 | is the position of the hucklebone in the case of all animals 1666 VI, 18 | About horsing time the mares huddle closer together, are continually 1667 VI, 18 | stallion approaches, he huddles his mares into a close ring, 1668 v, 33 | the original egg and the huge size of the full-grown animal. 1669 IV, 10 | are at rest and cease to hum. But the fact that insects 1670 IX, 7 | likeness to the ways of humankind. In pairing the same male 1671 IX, 43 | 43~Humble-bees produce their young under 1672 VI, 16 | spontaneously in mud and in humid ground; in fact, eels have 1673 IV, 9 | But some of them make a humming noise, like the bee and 1674 VII, 4 | burthened with superfluous humours. Nausea also and sickness 1675 IV, 2 | In the case of both the hump-backed carid and the squilla the 1676 v, 17 | eggs in a lump. With the humped carids or prawns the time 1677 IV, 2 | claws. Of the carids, the hunch-backed, or prawns, have five feet 1678 IV, 2 | the so-called cyphae, or "hunch-backs", the crangons, or squillae, 1679 v, 20 | from the grubs come the hunter-wasps. Some of the coleoptera 1680 IX, 45 | pungent that the hair of hunting-dogs is burnt off by it. It is 1681 IX, 47 | young horse ran way and hurled himself down a precipice.~ 1682 VIII, 12| an animal is the greater hurry will it be in to migrate 1683 IV, 8 | faculty is manifested by their hurrying off to a great distance 1684 IX, 44 | defence. It is susceptible of hurt from a wound in the flank, 1685 IX, 44 | hunter hit him, without hurting him, then if with a bound 1686 v, 30 | eggs in the canes on which husbandmen prop vines, perforating 1687 VII, 4 | have connexion with their husbands shortly before childbirth 1688 v, 15 | slippery mucus, and of this the husklike formations are composed. 1689 v, 15 | looks as though a number of husks of white chick-peas were 1690 VIII, 5 | called "glanus" by some and "hyaena" by others is as large as 1691 VI, 23 | mother than the sire. If such hybrid connexions be continued 1692 IX, 12 | by the sons of earth.~The hybris, said by some to be the 1693 VI, 32 | said that out of eleven hyenas he had caught, only one 1694 v, 19 | in doing so.~On the river Hypanis in the Cimmerian Bosphorus, 1695 v, 19 | forth. The insects named the hypera and the penia are derived 1696 VI, 35 | days from the land of the Hyperboreans to the island of Delos, 1697 I, 17 | attached to the ribs, the hypochondria and the backbone, with a 1698 I, 14 | thigh and buttocks is the "hypoglutis".~The front parts of the 1699 v, 21 | generation of bees different hypotheses are in vogue. Some affirm 1700 III, 1 | parts one is termed the hystera or delphys, whence is derived 1701 IX, 27 | 27~Of the Egyptian ibis there are two kinds, the 1702 III, 4 | fact, the organs are not identically situated in them all; and, 1703 IX, 40 | field they pass the time in idleness, and no good at all but 1704 IX, 40 | expel from the hive all idlers and unthrifts. As has been 1705 | ie 1706 II | Book II~ 1707 III | Book III~ 1708 IX, 12 | this name; Homer in the Iliad mentions it in the line:~ 1709 IX, 20 | another species called the Illas; it is the smallest species 1710 VIII, 24| abscesses. Another painful illness afflicts them called the " 1711 VIII, 22| immunity from all other illnesses, is occasionally subject 1712 v, 18 | first seem very large. To illustrate this by way of a figure, 1713 IV, 4 | shape, to give a simple illustration, it resembles a spider, 1714 IV, 7 | organ such insects taste and imbibe their food. In some insects 1715 III, 2 | Blood is thickest when it is imbibed by the fleshy parts; when 1716 IX, 40 | the flight of a swarm is imminent, a monotonous and quite 1717 v, 19 | and again relapses into immobility; it then comes out a perfect 1718 I, 11 | like the ear, intrinsically immovable. A part of it, composed 1719 IX, 37 | about by waves, it submits impassively; a man, if he dived, could 1720 IX, 3 | you; for the goat is more impatient of cold than the sheep.~ 1721 IX, 37 | to the greatest distance, impelled along by some internal energy; 1722 IX, 7 | afraid on account of the impending parturition to enter the 1723 II, 10 | and strong nails, and an impenetrable skin composed of scaly plates. 1724 III, 19 | supervene, the menses are imperfectly discharged.~Blood differs 1725 VII, 4 | the orifices of the body imperforate, for instance the ears or 1726 IX, 45 | like the bull. Its skin is impervious to blows. Owing to the savour 1727 VII, 2 | arising either from youthful impetuosity or from lengthened abstinence, 1728 III, 11 | believe to be the case, imply withering or decrepitude, 1729 IX, 10 | when he sees anything of importance signals it with a cry.~Pelicans 1730 III, 22 | compact. Sperm capable of impregnating or of fructification sinks 1731 VIII, 10| herbage. Sheep are much improved in condition by drinking, 1732 IV, 9 | capable of modification and of improvement. Men have the same voice 1733 III, 21 | ambidentals, the hare. Rennet improves in quality the longer it 1734 I, 10 | the latter kind indicates impudence, and the former indecision.~ 1735 IX, 1 | mischievous, less simple, more impulsive, and more attentive to the 1736 VIII, 24| horse; for if the water be impure or cold, or mixed up with 1737 IV, 9 | cases the term "voice" is inappropriate; the more correct expression 1738 VI, 34 | young ones are even more inarticulately formed. Before parturition 1739 IV, 8 | fresh-water carp, so that by an inattentive observer it might be mistaken 1740 VII, 1 | may suffer from congenital incapacity. Both men and women are 1741 IX, 40 | weather is fine they work incessantly.~The bee, when quite young 1742 v, 17 | breadth, or seven-tenths of an inch, in length. The animal, 1743 II, 17 | but no animal that has not incisors in both jaws has a straight 1744 v, 13 | first brood is killed by inclemency of weather (for it is the 1745 IX, 46 | that they are sensitive to inclement weather and frost. The elephant 1746 II, 1 | backwards, with just a slight inclination inwards, and his legs frontwards. 1747 I, 9 | central part of the eye includes the moist part whereby vision 1748 IX, 49B| seen with the change as yet incomplete. It is not so very strange 1749 VII, 9 | seen to suffer but moderate inconvenience. In women, however, the 1750 VI, 10 | it gets small and becomes incorporated, as was described in the 1751 VIII, 2 | species, but this statement is incorrect; it is doubtless founded 1752 IV, 1 | the internal parts, and incorrectly designated by some writers 1753 III, 19 | blood.~A fat substance is incorruptible, but blood and all things 1754 IX, 40 | hive, as their presence increases the industry of the workers. 1755 IX, 48 | by some predaceous fish. Incredible stories are told regarding 1756 VI, 8 | goose tribe the female alone incubates, and after once sitting 1757 I, 10 | impudence, and the former indecision.~ 1758 IV, 2 | crab, the varieties are indefinite and incalculable. The largest 1759 v, 1 | spontaneous, and in others is not independent of the male; and the method 1760 v, 1 | it is their nature to be independently capable of generation up 1761 VI, 23 | before the shedding of the index-teeth, she will bear all her life 1762 IX, 1 | extent in the way of courage. Indians employ these animals for 1763 I, 10 | others, the latter kind indicates impudence, and the former 1764 IX, 5 | but only an excrescence indicating where horns will be, this 1765 IX, 40 | sheer laziness look with indifference on damage done to their 1766 III, 1 | all these parts are more indistinct.~The properties of the womb 1767 v, 17 | whole appears to be one and indivisible. And the largest are not 1768 IX, 49 | as to cease crowing and indulging his sexual propensities. 1769 VII, 11 | there continue to be certain indurated parts of the breast called 1770 IX, 40 | their presence increases the industry of the workers. Bees can 1771 VIII, 4 | creatures are caught when inebriated. Serpents are carnivorous, 1772 VII, 1 | further impulse beyond that inevitable one which their bodily development 1773 IX, 40 | young bees that act so from inexperience; and the bees of the current 1774 VIII, 5 | leg to void its urine. It infects the food it eats with a 1775 IX, 7 | the female, taking their inference from the statements of persons 1776 IX, 40 | is inferior, and owes its inferiority to the comb in which it 1777 VI, 13 | preserved, each species would be infinite in number. The greater number 1778 VIII, 2 | conformation of the embryo an infinitesimally minute but absolutely essential 1779 I, 11 | pillar gets relaxed and inflamed it is called "uvula" or " 1780 IX, 50 | to suppurating matter; if inflammation ensues, they cauterize the 1781 I, 15 | knuckle", the part that is inflexible is termed the "phalanx". 1782 IX, 40 | disposed to show anger or to inflict a sting. Bees that die are 1783 IV, 3 | the lids as a check to the inflow, and discharges the water 1784 III, 12 | owing to special climatic influences, as when unusual frost prevails, 1785 III, 20 | inquired of the oracle, the god informed him that the portent foreshadowed 1786 IX, 37 | also, one may observe many ingenious devices adapted to the circumstances 1787 II, 17 | enters and where it lies ingested. Just where the crop leaves 1788 III, 4 | either from natural and inherent causes or from a prevalence 1789 VII, 6 | generally, children often inherit anything that is peculiar 1790 IX, 7 | beaks of the fledglings, and inject these pieces, thus preparing 1791 IX, 6 | it makes no attempt to injure its little friend, but, 1792 VIII, 13| the large fishes of this inland sea are smaller than the 1793 VI, 29 | refuge, a cave with a single inlet, inside which she shelters 1794 III, 20 | Lemnian owner of the animal inquired of the oracle, the god informed 1795 VIII, 2 | is the most voracious and insatiable, and in consequence its 1796 VIII, 4 | Serpents, by the by, have an insatiate appetite for wine; consequently, 1797 III, 3 | actually choked, become insensible, shut their eyes, and fall 1798 IV, 8 | has held pickles, after inserting a "weel" in the neck thereof. 1799 VI, 22 | attrition caused by the insertion of the bit; in the case 1800 IV, 1 | structure it may happen to have, inside-in this respect resembling 1801 VIII, 26| costive. When they suffer from insomnia, they will be restored to 1802 III, 2 | animals it is impossible to inspect these parts, for of their 1803 III, 2 | those who have narrowly inspected bodies of living men reduced 1804 I, 11 | owing to the fact that the inspiration and respiration take place 1805 VIII, 29| elsewhere-in Caria, for instances-where scorpions are venomous as 1806 IX, 6 | animal.~In regard to the instinct of hedgehogs, it has been 1807 IX, 1 | capable of giving or receiving instruction-of receiving it from one another 1808 IV, 10 | being speared with pronged instruments. The basse, the chrysophrys 1809 IV, 2 | emptiness may be put down to insufficiency of nutriment. (There is 1810 IX, 8 | hand, then to keep the eggs intact she refrains from visiting 1811 VI, 3 | of the two circumjacent integuments); and a membrane carrying 1812 VII, 1 | and ages quickly in men of intemperate lusts and in women who become 1813 IX, 40 | grubs, and a swarm is not intended to take place; under these 1814 VIII, 24| bite or, at all events, intense pain; it is like a small 1815 VI, 36 | animals of this species interbreed with one another; and a 1816 IX, 32 | birds-are all spoilt by the interbreeding of different species. The 1817 I, 11 | or chattering. The part intercepted between the eye, the ear, 1818 IX, 1 | blood of the anthus will not intercommingle with the blood of the aegithus. 1819 IX, 31 | birds have some means of intercommunicating with one another.~ 1820 III, 7 | one single bone, and are interconnected, like the veins, in one 1821 III, 3 | but, if any one be keenly interested in the matter, his best 1822 VIII, 1 | these two acts all their interests and life concentrate. Their 1823 VIII, 27| which creature the bee never interferes. Bees suffer most when flowers 1824 IX, 7 | an examination of their interiors. Ring-doves are long-lived; 1825 v, 8 | are drawn in together and interlaced at the hinder ends; for, 1826 v, 6 | unite at the mouth, by an interlacing of their tentacles. When, 1827 VI, 18 | bites and drives away the interlopers. He feeds apart, accompanied 1828 v, 8 | winter; and this temperate interlude~Men call the Holy Season, 1829 III, 17 | furnished with fat, either intermingled with their flesh, or apart. 1830 VI, 22 | breeds on and on without intermission. Of mares some are absolutely 1831 VI, 2 | egg-substance is small copulation be intermitted, the previously existing 1832 VI, 23 | connexions be continued without intermittence, the female will soon go 1833 VIII, 2 | embryonic condition there got intermixed into them some portion of 1834 VIII, 2 | this differentiation may be interpreted in two different ways. Thus, 1835 IV, 4 | and in it are nicks or interruptions, as in the egg-mass of the 1836 VII, 3 | so to speak cobwebby or interspersed with little threads. And 1837 VIII, 4 | and putting them into the interstices of walls, and the creatures 1838 IX, 13 | the nests, and from the intertexture collect the cinnamon sticks.~ 1839 v, 6 | calamaries swim about closely intertwined, with mouths and tentacles 1840 v, 16 | for vacant pore-spaces intervene. There is a kind of membrane 1841 VI, 3 | thin partition of white intervenes to prevent the yolks mixing 1842 VI, 37 | become pregnant without the intervention of the male.~Mice in Egypt 1843 v, 15 | co-attachment of these is an intimate one. In colour it looks 1844 IX, 49B| before, nor so deep, nor so intricately modulated, but simple; it 1845 I, 11 | and is not, like the ear, intrinsically immovable. A part of it, 1846 VI, 18 | the males. They further introduce other elephants amongst 1847 I, 11 | takes hold of them, and introduces its food into its mouth, 1848 IV, 4 | itself, but by its habit of introducing itself into a shell and 1849 VI, 28 | district inaccessible to intrusion, hemmed in with sheer cliffs 1850 IX, 44 | will let him go again. They invade the cattle-folds and attack 1851 v, 14 | The ages, however, are not invariable; now and then the boar and 1852 VIII, 5 | and chase him, and will inveigle a dog within its reach by 1853 VI, 31 | pure fable, and was merely invented to account for the scarcity 1854 v, 19 | credited with the first invention of the fabric. After the 1855 III, 2 | visible externally. Of these investigators, Syennesis, the physician 1856 v, 28 | comes out of its clayey investiture in the shape of a little 1857 VIII, 13| exceptionally sweet water has an invigorating effect upon the spawn. After 1858 IX, 12 | and slender in form. The Ionians call the bird by this name; 1859 VII, 4 | the legend, in the case of Iphicles and Hercules. The following 1860 IX, 50 | twice or thrice with hot irons, then, if the bird be full-grown, 1861 IV, 8 | thorough confidence or on irrefutable evidence. However, the solen 1862 VIII, 5 | about every other day or at irregular intervals, and the substance 1863 I, 11 | ones indicate a tendency to irrelevant talk or chattering. The 1864 IX, 1 | animals for war purposes, irrespective of sex; the females, however, 1865 VI, 35 | the Hyperboreans to the island of Delos, she assumed the 1866 I, 13 | for it is symmetrical (isophues) in appearance; of the fundament 1867 VIII, 12| from the Strymon to the Ister, and breed on the banks 1868 VIII, 3 | split-footed live by the edge of it-and, by the way, water-birds 1869 VI, 10 | about eighty embryos inside it-but the spiny dogfish is an 1870 VI, 28 | become castrated owing to an itch befalling them in early 1871 IX, 1 | furze-bush, rubs its sore and itching parts against the prickles; 1872 VIII, 28| The hare cannot live in Ithaca if introduced there; in 1873 IV, 1 | are wingless, such as the iulus and the centipede; some 1874 IV | Book IV~ 1875 v, 22 | year, and it is from the ivy-flower that they derive their honey. 1876 VII, 4 | some folks call this the "ivy-sickness"; and with the mothers of 1877 IX | Book IX~ 1878 III, 3 | Along the chine, the eager javelin rends.~From this vessel 1879 III, 6 | but not into a stiff or jelly-like substance, like the blood 1880 I, 6 | the ass, the mule, the jennet, and the animals that are 1881 IX, 40 | large one, it will shift to join this large one, and if the 1882 VIII, 13| moonlight, they continue their journey without resting at all. 1883 v, 11 | of June to the middle of July, the female tunny, about 1884 IV, 7 | them as have the power of jumping have the hinder legs the 1885 IV, 2 | granular seminal bodies in juxta-position with the gut. These are 1886 VI, 14 | little one, and bring into juxtaposition the ducts-which some writers 1887 IV, 8 | sense of smell remarkably keen. It is manifest, then, that 1888 IX, 34 | but the sea-eagle is very keen-sighted, and before its young are 1889 VI, 18 | sexual appetites are all the keener if the weather warm and 1890 VI, 18 | appetites of animals are keenest in spring-time; the time 1891 III, 3 | difficulties; but, if any one be keenly interested in the matter, 1892 IX, 34 | eagle, however, owing to its keenness of vision, keeps flying 1893 VI, 18 | topsy-turvy the dwellings of their keepers, lightly constructed as 1894 IX, 5 | and you cannot escape its ken; if its ears are down, you 1895 II, 1 | called Chia outside, and the keraiae or "horns" on the top. This, 1896 IX, 9 | fruit, and then ate the kernel.~ 1897 VII, 1 | are pitched in a higher key than the elder women’s, 1898 VI, 2 | shake themselves, and often kick rubbish about all round 1899 IX, 45 | against an assailant by kicking and projecting its excrement 1900 VI, 12 | the time when the earliest kids are forthcoming. It conducts 1901 IX, 1 | fact is they are tamed by kindness, and in some places crocodiles 1902 v, 1 | spontaneously and not from kindred stock; and of these instances 1903 IX, 40 | gregarious-the bee, the king-bee, the drone bee, the annual 1904 II, 17 | have a reduplication or kink it loosens out again into 1905 VIII, 19| vegetation-for, by the way, kitchen vegetables, though artificially 1906 III, 1 | from the aorta; the letters KK mark the heads of the testicles 1907 I, 15 | the sliding part of the "kneecap", the double-boned part 1908 IX, 46 | instance, it can taught to kneel in presence of the king. 1909 II, 1 | above, on which, when it kneels, the weight of the whole 1910 IX, 49B| gay mountain-bird, with knightly crest,~Now in the white 1911 IV, 11 | texture of flesh, and more knock-kneed, and the shin-bones are 1912 VI, 18 | she have one of her eyes knocked out, is almost sure to die 1913 VII, 11 | called strangalides, or "knots", which occur when it so 1914 IX, 17 | living with ease, and for its knowingness is regarded as uncanny; 1915 I, 15 | finger that bends is termed "knuckle", the part that is inflexible 1916 VIII, 24| size of the sphondyle or knuckle-beetle. The bite of the shrewmouse 1917 VI, 22 | intercourse with horses is not laborious as it is with oxen. In both 1918 II, 1 | resembling the sculptor’s "labyrinth". All the animals that have 1919 III, 19 | the marrow. When flesh is lacerated, blood exudes, if the animal 1920 IX, 40 | the hind-legs; when thus laden, they fly away home, and 1921 VII, 1 | thus, after puberty some lads who were thin before grow 1922 v, 34 | on to one another like a lady’s necklace; after the dam 1923 IX, 19 | found nowhere else. The laius, or blue-thrush, is like 1924 VIII, 10| with salted food as the lambing season draws near they will 1925 IV, 2 | more or less provided with lamellae, or little flaps, and the 1926 v, 5 | already named, the bos, the lamia, the aetos, the narce or 1927 IX, 37 | Amongst other large fish, a lamia-shark, after falling in amongst 1928 II, 17 | many-plies), rough inside and laminated, and of about the same size 1929 IV, 9 | shine through the jaw like lamps; for, by the way, the commerce 1930 VIII, 21| repeated warm baths, and to lance the under part of the tongue.~ 1931 VI, 12 | and brings forth on dry land-only close to the shore-as being 1932 IX, 37 | sea-scolopendra, like the land-scolopendra, will come to a savoury 1933 VIII, 28| of the beach where it was landed. The horseman-ant is not 1934 VIII, 24| projection of them, great languor, and heavy breathing. Heart-ache 1935 IV, 5 | so, but looks like a horn lantern with the panes of horn left 1936 VIII, 6 | Jag-toothed animals drink by lapping, as do also some animals 1937 VIII, 6 | the ox; the bear neither laps nor sucks, but gulps down 1938 I, 1 | instance, blood, serum, lard, suet, marrow, sperm, gall, 1939 VII, 1 | especially if their diet be largely of a fluid nature; and this 1940 IX, 25 | 25~Of larks there are two kinds. One 1941 v, 9 | aithyia, or diver, and the larus, or gull, lay their eggs 1942 VII, 1 | three children. Women of a lascivious disposition grow more sedate 1943 IX, 40 | condition is indicated in a lassitude on the part of the bees 1944 VI, 3 | This condition of the eyes lat on for a good while, as 1945 VIII, 5 | otter, and the so-called latax, or beaver. The beaver is 1946 IX, 50 | mutilate them in boyhood, the later-growing hair never comes, and the 1947 I, 15 | and the anklebones lie laterally, earwise. The arms are situated 1948 VI, 17 | are nicknamed "runners". Latest in order of the shoal fish 1949 VII, 10 | forty days old it neither laughs nor weeps during waking 1950 VIII, 6 | pig-breeders feed the animal lavishly. Breeders in Thrace, when 1951 v, 8 | phenomenon, there are definite laws followed as regards the 1952 VIII, 17| sloughing of the skin an inner layer comes to the surface, for 1953 IX, 42 | bees do, but successive layers of young anthrenae keep 1954 VI, 2 | they do sometimes after laying-whereas pigeons trail their rumps 1955 IX, 18 | nickname implies, it is the laziest bird of the three species. 1956 IX, 40 | the other bees from sheer laziness look with indifference on 1957 IX, 13 | that the inhabitants attach leaden weights to the tips of their 1958 VI, 12 | the back; its colour is leaden-black. Many people are of opinion 1959 v, 30 | though that were a moving leaf.~ 1960 IX, 7 | turtle-dove is that they do not lean the head back when they 1961 I, 17 | little to the left-hand side, leaning a little way from the division 1962 VII, 1 | or altering in the way of leanness, stoutness, and vigour; 1963 I, 5 | the other two genera, the leathern-winged and membrane-winged, are 1964 IX, 37 | wonted prey. The male becomes leathery and clammy. As a proof that 1965 VIII, 2 | The sargue feeds on the leavings of the trigle or red mullet. 1966 VIII, 28| Orchomenus, but there are none in Lebadia though it is in the immediate 1967 v, 15 | those found off Sigeum and Lectum; others are small, as those 1968 IX, 32 | generally on an inaccessible ledge of a cliff; it does, however, 1969 v, 19 | cabbageworm, and from the leek the prasocuris or leekbane; 1970 v, 19 | the leek the prasocuris or leekbane; this creature is also winged. 1971 III, 7 | the hip-socket; then the leg-bones, those in the thighs and 1972 VII, 4 | happened, according to the legend, in the case of Iphicles 1973 III, 21 | milk in plenty. Some of the leguminous plants bring milk in abundance, 1974 v, 15 | attend to them at their leisure. Fishermen in past times 1975 IX, 44 | ground, when he resumes his leisurely retreat. When, in the open, 1976 III, 20 | in point of fact when the Lemnian owner of the animal inquired 1977 III, 20 | male; for instance, once in Lemnos a he-goat was milked by 1978 v, 20 | days, corresponding to the lengths of interval at which the 1979 I, 16 | substance, and is elastic both lengthways and breadthways.~The stomach 1980 III, 17 | overfeeding, as is found at Leontini in Sicily; and consequently 1981 IX, 37 | In the neighbourhood of Lesbos, the fishes of the outer 1982 IV, 9 | has been observed to give lessons in singing to a young bird, 1983 IX, 6 | shakes its neck in warning, lest it should accidentally bite 1984 VI, 35 | that when they transported Leto in so many days from the 1985 III, 1 | accompanying diagram; wherein the letter A marks the starting-point 1986 III, 1 | extend from the aorta; the letters KK mark the heads of the 1987 IX, 1 | green wood pecker and the libyus; and so with kite and the 1988 VI, 3 | navel-string, towards the yolk. The life-element of the chick is in the white 1989 IX, 39 | be hungry, sucks out the life-juices—for that is the way it feeds; 1990 VI, 35 | once and only once in her lifetime.~The cat and the ichneumon 1991 VI, 22 | his fore legs had to be lifted up for the operation.~Mares 1992 II, 1 | For it eats and drinks by lifting up its food with the aid 1993 I, 16 | the windpipe by membranous ligaments, and at last finds its way 1994 VII, 10 | cut away within after the ligaturing of the cord.~It often happens 1995 VI, 18 | dwellings of their keepers, lightly constructed as they are, 1996 VIII, 21| like animals in general lights in a change of diet; and 1997 I, 15 | the so-called seven-ribbed Ligyans we have not received any 1998 v, 5 | ray, the trygon, and the like-copulate not only in this way, but 1999 VIII, 21| and that acorns, though liked by the animal, render the 2000 IX, 7 | phenomena with a similar likeness to the ways of humankind. 2001 IX, 6 | is easily tamed; from its liking for honey it is a plague 2002 IV, 8 | suited to their several likings, and these baits they distinguish