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2503 VI, 37 | In a certain district of Persia when a female mouse is dissected 2504 IX, 40 | they often recover, if the person stung takes the trouble 2505 IX, 29 | the beauty of the cuckoo. Personal observers agree in telling 2506 v, 15 | the star-fish is a great pest in the Strait of Pyrrha. 2507 v, 8 | that copulate at all. The phalangia-that is to say, such of the species 2508 I, 15 | inflexible is termed the "phalanx". The big finger or thumb 2509 VI, 15 | under the ground. From the Phaleric fry comes the membras, from 2510 VI, 36 | Pharnaces, the father of Pharnabazus, and the animal is there 2511 VI, 36 | into Phrygia in the time of Pharnaces, the father of Pharnabazus, 2512 VIII, 29| bite of an animal. Thus, in Pharos and other places, the bite 2513 III, 21 | For instance, there are in Phasis small cattle that in all 2514 v, 13 | the pigeon species is the phatta or ring-dove; and the next 2515 v, 31 | infested with them; and pheasants, unless they clean themselves 2516 v, 31 | the poet and the Syrian Pherecydes are said to have done. Moreover, 2517 VI, 29 | parturition, and the substance is phlegm-like.~The hind leads the fawn 2518 IV, 2 | In the neighbourhood of Phoenice there are found on the beach 2519 v, 5 | process. On the coast of Phoenicia they take advantage of these 2520 VIII, 20| rivers and ponds; by the Phoenicians it is made use of also in 2521 VIII, 15| this sleep, such as the pholidotes or tessellates, namely, 2522 IX, 37 | the chalcis. The so-called pholis gives out a mucous discharge, 2523 VI, 14 | marshes; as for instance the phoxinus or minnow and the perch.~ 2524 III, 20 | she-ass are mixed in with Phrygian cheese. And there is more 2525 IX, 10 | shells are open, they may pick the flesh out and eat it.~ 2526 VIII, 30| tunny is unfit even for pickling, as a great part of its 2527 IX, 44 | afraid of fire, as Homer pictures him in the line-" and glowing 2528 VIII, 3 | the great and the small pie, which are nicknamed the 2529 IV, 4 | oestrus, or gadfly, can pierce the skin of a quadruped, 2530 VIII, 6 | three days of starvation, pig-breeders feed the animal lavishly. 2531 VIII, 6 | the market in sixty days. Pig-dealers can tell the amount of flesh 2532 v, 13 | peculiarities it is neglected by the pigeon-fancier. The largest of all the 2533 IX, 7 | claws increase in size, and pigeon-fanciers cut the claws; as far as 2534 IX, 36 | kinds are the asterias, the pigeon-hawk, and the pternis; the broaded-winged 2535 v, 19 | smelted, with heaps of the ore piled on day after day, an animal 2536 III, 19 | creature be pricked with a pin, the blood does not issue 2537 VIII, 2 | into its mouth with its pincer-like claws, like the common crab. 2538 VI, 2 | hens get no brooding they pine and sicken. After copulation 2539 v, 10 | colour resembles that of the pine-tree, and the animal has teeth 2540 v, 19 | as the sun goes down it pines away, and dies at sunset 2541 v, 16 | chambered cavities of sponges pinna-guards or parasites are found. 2542 v, 15 | that keep to one spot the pinnae are rooted to the ground; 2543 VI, 18 | extent of a quarter of a pint of liquid or a little less; 2544 IX, 5 | are caught by singing or pipe-playing on the part of the hunters; 2545 VI, 13 | lay their eggs; but the pipefish, as some call it, when the 2546 VIII, 13| conger, the muraena, and the piper or sea-cuckoo are found 2547 IX, 1 | to its nesting-place. The piphinx, the harpe, and the kite 2548 VII, 10 | blood, extremely dark and pitch-like, but later on it becomes 2549 IX, 40 | stuff that comes next is pitch-wax; it has a less pungent odour 2550 VII, 1 | the voices of girls are pitched in a higher key than the 2551 II, 1 | Regarding the tails of the pithecoids we must give their distinctive 2552 I, 13 | the part whereon the thigh pivots is termed the "socket" ( 2553 v, 19 | latter impregnation takes placeduring the change of the yellow~ 2554 v, 17 | then, cannot close, but by placing the end flap on them the 2555 IX, 6 | liking for honey it is a plague to bee-hives; it preys on 2556 III, 3 | in the matter, his best plan will be to allow his animals 2557 IX, 32 | another species called the "plangus"; it ranks second in point 2558 v, 32 | on to fig-trees, and of planting wild fig-trees near domesticated 2559 v, 19 | of Pamphila, daughter of Plateus, being credited with the 2560 IX, 5 | before their eyes sings or plays the pipe, the other keeps 2561 VIII, 7 | mold them to any shape you please, and cattle are less subject 2562 III, 7 | the same is the so-called "plectrum" in those creatures that 2563 v, 5 | the sperm sooner and more plentifully. And, further, at the spawning 2564 v, 19 | kind, as in kitchens and in ploughed fields, for the contents 2565 IX, 41 | underground; for men when ploughing or digging in winter have 2566 IX, 49B| Again his particoloured plumes are worn.~But evermore, 2567 VIII, 16| moults, but retains its plumpness. Some cushats hide; others, 2568 IX, 48 | in divers, when they have plunged into deep water; that is, 2569 VII, 7 | cast to a distance save by pneumatic pressure. After the seed 2570 VI, 21 | the animal suffers from podagra it does not shed the hoof, 2571 IX, 1 | mutual enmity between the poecilis, the crested lark, the woodpecker (?), 2572 v, 9 | Stesichorus in one of his poems alludes to this peculiarity. 2573 IX, 39 | other species wherewith poison-vendors supply themselves, some 2574 IX, 6 | habit of the hedgehog.~The polecat or marten is about as large 2575 VIII, 24| charms. What is called the "polium" or foal’s membrane, is, 2576 III, 3 | Syennesis and Diogenes. Polybus writes to the following 2577 IV, 1 | and by on dry land. These polypods are small, and are shaped, 2578 v, 18 | eggs burst and the little polypuses creep out, like little spiders, 2579 IX, 50 | ruminate; as, for instance, the Pontic mice, and the fish which 2580 IV, 1 | persons the nautilus or the pontilus, or by others the "polypus" 2581 IV, 4 | rough-shelled, such as the pool-oyster or edible oyster, the pinna, 2582 v, 14 | issue of the younger ewes is poorer than that of the older ones.~ 2583 IX, 40 | Syrian-grass, yellow pulse, myrtle, poppies, creeping-thyme, and almond-trees. 2584 IV, 2 | termed the "mytis", or "poppyjuice".~We must now proceed to 2585 IX, 1 | owl-a practice which is popularly termed "admiring him"-buffet 2586 IX, 40 | numerous in proportion to the population, for the bees work in a 2587 I, 6 | prickly hairs as hedgehogs and porcupines carry; for these spines 2588 VIII, 28| and not on the other. In Pordoselene there is a public road one 2589 I, 17 | and along by every single pore in it go branches from the 2590 v, 16 | their bodies; for vacant pore-spaces intervene. There is a kind 2591 II, 17 | necked birds, such as the porphyrio, and, by the way, in the 2592 VII, 8 | the so-called gates or "portae" are, running in the direction 2593 I, 17 | where are the so-called "portals" of the liver. The spleen 2594 III, 20 | god informed him that the portent foreshadowed the acquisition 2595 VI, 17 | conceives during the month of Poseideon (or December), and carries 2596 VI, 37 | Some people assert, and positively assert, that a female mouse 2597 VIII, 12| winter, or as men of great possessions spend their summer in cool 2598 v, 14 | reason of abnormality, or is postponed by physical injury.~In man, 2599 VIII, 1 | exists some other natural potentiality akin to these. The truth 2600 VI, 18 | women who deal in drugs and potions. About horsing time the 2601 v, 18 | into its hole, or into a potsherd or into any similar cavity, 2602 IX, 44 | behind, he makes a sudden pounce upon it. The two statements 2603 IX, 39 | struggle, when out the spider pounces. The speckled kind makes 2604 VIII, 4 | times men hunt for snakes by pouring wine into saucers and putting 2605 III, 2 | leaves them; for the blood pours out of them in a stream, 2606 IX, 6 | doctors scrape it into powder, and administer it in that 2607 IV, 8 | dwellings be smeared with powdered origanum and brimstone, 2608 IX, 18 | bird that is called the poynx has this peculiarity, that 2609 VIII, 2 | be proved in a thoroughly practical way. Take a thin vessel 2610 IX, 7 | parents will detect, with practised eye, the young one that 2611 v, 19 | cabbageworm, and from the leek the prasocuris or leekbane; this creature 2612 IX, 5 | quadrupeds the hind appears to be pre-eminently intelligent; for example, 2613 VI, 9 | number. They take every precaution, by supplying her with food, 2614 IX, 10 | them inside the crop that precedes the stomach, they spit them 2615 IX, 47 | and hurled himself down a precipice.~ 2616 III, 3 | lay down the law in such precise terms as regards the veins, 2617 IX, 48 | its being devoured by some predaceous fish. Incredible stories 2618 II, 15 | simply the specific name is predicable, as when we say "the serpent," 2619 IX, 39 | species of this animal, preeminently clever and artistic. It 2620 VII, 12 | and constipation too is prejudicial. The majority of deaths 2621 VI, 21 | never lives, however little premature its birth may have been, 2622 VI, 24 | and that the mule owes the prematurity of his decay to his habit 2623 I, 6 | whereby the subjects and the premisses of our argument will afterwards 2624 IX, 40 | kings if they have been prepared, on the ground that these 2625 III, 11 | part of the jaw, in the prepuce, and the eyelid. In all 2626 IX, 1 | all kinds.~The so-called presbys or "old man" is at war with 2627 VIII, 26| either one or the other prescription will prove a costive. When 2628 v, 30 | again, it will endure the presentation more quietly than if you 2629 VI, 22 | round about its kidneys, presenting the appearance of having 2630 VI, 13 | saved. If all the eggs were preserved, each species would be infinite 2631 VIII, 24| rabies in full force, it preserves a dejected spiritless appearance; 2632 VIII, 18| represents the eagle that presided over the auguries as in 2633 IX, 40 | stung takes the trouble to press the sting out; but once 2634 VII, 7 | distance save by pneumatic pressure. After the seed reaches 2635 VI, 17 | The statements here given pretend only to give the results 2636 IX, 8 | in front of the hunter, pretending to be lame: the man every 2637 I, 17 | organs in an ordinary and not preternatural way; for, be it observed, 2638 VI, 13 | placed low down, as was said previously-and, by the way, all scaly fish 2639 IX, 1 | same food; with the pig for preying on her kind. The merlin 2640 IX, 32 | account of the visit made by Priam to the tent of Achilles. 2641 III, 19 | the sleeping creature be pricked with a pin, the blood does 2642 IV, 7 | insects are furnished with prickers or stings. Some insects 2643 III, 11 | is observed at times in priestesses in Caria, but these cases 2644 IX, 1 | crocodiles are tame to their priestly keeper from being fed by 2645 VI, 3 | the sharp end, where the primal element of the egg is situated, 2646 v, 19 | state, generation is due primarily to the heat of the sun or 2647 VIII, 2 | infer, then, that if in the primary conformation of the embryo 2648 VIII, 15| summer or winter sleep.~The primas-tunny conceals itself in the mud; 2649 v, 1 | formation of some elemental principle similar to a seed; and of 2650 v, 14 | eight months old; but the priority in date is more common with 2651 IX, 41 | provided with stings; in all probability, like the king-bees, they 2652 IX, 44 | some say, three; there are probably not more than three, but, 2653 IX, 40 | all and also whether their procedure is due to pleasure or alarm. 2654 IX, 8 | So much for the sexual proclivities of the partridge, for the 2655 v, 2 | cases organs adapted for procreation, but the sexes do not in 2656 v, 14 | bitches have been respectively procreative and conceptive to the ages 2657 VIII, 3 | well divided into such as procure their food on dry land, 2658 III, 20 | quantity of milk has been procured by the employment of special 2659 VI, 14 | the eggs, the resulting product becomes very sticky or viscous, 2660 VI, 14 | they emit the generative products and discharge the egg in 2661 IX, 50 | animals that ruminate derive profit and pleasure from the process 2662 VI, 21 | conceive, it is looked upon as prognostic of rain and stormy weather. 2663 IV, 10 | occurs in advanced life it prognosticates either actual dissolution 2664 IV, 4 | left-hand one is large, and it progresses chiefly by the aid of this 2665 v, 19 | move in an undulatory way, progressing with one part and then pulling 2666 v, 32 | creature as is known. Its head projects outside its shell, mottled 2667 VII, 2 | from lengthened abstinence, prolapsion of the womb takes place 2668 VI, 22 | considered perfect when such promiscuity of intercourse occurs. Scythians 2669 VI, 28 | but like a forest-clad promontory."~Wild boars become castrated 2670 v, 30 | canes on which husbandmen prop vines, perforating the canes; 2671 VI, 15 | incapable of growth and of propagating its kind; after living for 2672 VIII, 5 | graveyard to gratify this propensity.~The bear is omnivorous. 2673 IX, 48 | together and rise with a speed proportional to their strength. Dolphins 2674 VI, 18 | their greater bulk, but proportionally to the greater bulk it is 2675 IX, 40 | the level surface, and put props underneath the combs to 2676 III, 3 | sudden, and thereupon to prosecute his investigations.~We now 2677 II, 1 | animal goes to war, they protect its feet, when they get 2678 VII, 4 | female children is apt to be protracted and sluggish, while in the 2679 II, 17 | long and black, and can be protruded to a great distance. And 2680 II, 1 | the creatures have merely protuberances on the head sufficiently 2681 IX, 40 | with the lids of the cells protuberant, like those of the anthrene; 2682 IX, 32 | tidy in its habits, too proud for jealousy, fearless, 2683 IX, 40 | commencing work; but when their provender is forthcoming and they 2684 IX, 5 | or discovery, whence the proverbial expression of "the place 2685 I, 1 | under offence; others are provident for defence. Of the former 2686 IX, 34 | lammergeier, is fond of its young, provides its food with ease, fetches 2687 IX, 49 | leading the chickens about and providing them with food, and so intent 2688 IX, 40 | assailed a foreign hive; proving victorious in a combat they 2689 IX, 40 | and the hive runs short of provisions; under such circumstances 2690 VII, 1 | those who try by friction to provoke emission of seed are apt 2691 IX, 32 | nothing. If it catch a man prowling about in the neighbourhood 2692 IX, 40 | creature, but in the close proximity of the hive they kill whatever 2693 VIII, 1 | will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically 2694 VIII, 1 | psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for 2695 III, 12 | case with the water of the Psychrus (so-called from its coldness), 2696 IX, 36 | the pigeon-hawk, and the pternis; the broaded-winged hawk 2697 IX, 40 | the doorway of the hive, puffs himself out as he sits on 2698 VIII, 7 | sweet food, such as figs, or pulp from the wine-press, or 2699 VI, 18 | amongst the wild ones, and punish and break them in by setting 2700 IX, 32 | story that the eagle is thus punished because it once was a man 2701 VI, 20 | so when they are out of puppyhood. The bitch squats down when 2702 III, 19 | bones. Blood is finest and purest in man; and thickest and 2703 VIII, 5 | eating grass and thereby purge themselves.~The solitary 2704 VI, 13 | river-waters.~When the Euxine is "purged" a substance called phycus 2705 VI, 29 | time, and waits until his pursuer draws upon him, whereupon 2706 IX, 1 | of spirit. An elephant by pushing with his big tusks can batter 2707 VIII, 5 | It is exceedingly fond of putrefied flesh, and will burrow in 2708 VI, 13 | and females, but one is puzzled to account for the erythrinus 2709 VIII, 12| are said to fight with the pygmies; and the story is not fabulous, 2710 IX, 1 | the turtle-dove with the pyrallis, for they live in the same 2711 VIII, 27| moth, called by some the "pyraustes", that flies about a lighted 2712 IX, 1 | originally born out of a funeral pyre): the cause of warfare is 2713 III, 21 | given in honour of King Pyrrhus.~Some pasture quenches milk, 2714 II, 8 | reversed in man and the quadruped-only that the hair is coarse, 2715 II, 10 | 10~Oviparous and blooded quadrupeds-and, by the way, no terrestrial 2716 VII, 5 | the catamenia: with this qualification that there is a lack of 2717 III, 1 | testicle has its moist content qualified by blood, but to a comparatively 2718 VIII, 1 | in animals, differ only quantitatively: that is to say, a man has 2719 IX, 7 | distance from their nests this quarrelsomeness is less marked, but in the 2720 VIII, 3 | of the sea and seeks its quarry in lagoons.~A great number 2721 v, 15 | runs through it, and this quasi-vein would appear to be in itself 2722 I, 6 | instance, creatures that are qudapedal and unprovided with wings 2723 IX, 7 | only when they have fully quenched their thirst. The turtle-dove 2724 III, 21 | King Pyrrhus.~Some pasture quenches milk, as Median grass or 2725 IX, 50 | excised with the view of quenching in them sexual appetites 2726 IX, 1 | time is more jealous, more querulous, more apt to scold and to 2727 III, 22 | contributes to generation, these questions will be discussed in another 2728 IX, 3 | because the goats will be quieter and will creep up towards 2729 IV, 7 | and the wing is devoid of quill-structure or division of any kind.~ 2730 II, 12 | invariably furnished with quills. They have no tail, but 2731 III, 3 | at the penis."~The above quotations sum up pretty well the statements 2732 VIII, 24| for several days and turns rabid, it may be of service to 2733 I, 1 | does not deflect from its racial characteristics.~Further, 2734 IX, 24 | little daw, called the "railer". There is another kind 2735 IX, 49B| selfsame bird.~The spangled raiment marks his youthful days,~ 2736 VI, 16 | sustenance is derived from rain-water.~There is no doubt, then, 2737 v, 22 | constellations or when a rainbow is in the sky: and as a 2738 IX, 2 | gar-fish, (the squid,) the rainbow-wrasse, the pelamyd, the mackerel, 2739 VIII, 28| meet, on account of the rainless climate, at the watering-places, 2740 VIII, 2 | is troubled and the mud raised up by contrary winds; unless 2741 IX, 37 | conceals itself therein, it raises the filaments, and, when 2742 VI, 19 | repose but frisky and apt to ramble. If at the appointed season 2743 III, 4 | these parts there is a great ramification of branch veins.~As far 2744 III, 9 | are solid throughout, and ramify into branches (or antlers). 2745 IX, 45 | making a kind of circular rampart around them; for the animal 2746 IV, 8 | creature is enticed by baits of rancid meat, which it perceives 2747 IV, 11 | progeny attached, make only random assertions from not having 2748 VIII, 12| the intervening mountain range, the birds in the rear lose 2749 IX, 40 | double-doored; for two cells are ranged about a single base, one 2750 VI, 29 | the deer is unsavoury and rank, like the flesh of the he-goat. 2751 v, 19 | leaves, chiefly leaves of the raphanus, which some call crambe 2752 VI, 37 | were found inside it.~The rate of propagation of field 2753 II, 1 | the hind legs are to be rated as the lower part in our 2754 I, 6 | sequence and of combining rational notions with physical perception, 2755 IX, 11 | of these birds build in ravines and clefts, and on cliffs, 2756 VI, 10 | angel-fish and the electric ray-and, by the way, a large electric 2757 I, 5 | Selachia, the sharks and rays.)~What we term an egg is 2758 v, 15 | grow. Cockles and clams and razor-fishes and scallops row spontaneously 2759 VIII, 1 | spot, and the solen (or razor-shell) cannot survive withdrawal 2760 III, 20 | is secreted in all cases ready-made, is the milk; sperm, on 2761 VIII, 24| the name of "sandarace" or realgar, is extremely injurious 2762 VI, 37 | morning, when he takes his reapers afield, he finds his entire 2763 VI, 37 | observe that it is time for reaping, and on the following morning, 2764 VI, 31 | lion and lioness copulate rearwards, and that these animals 2765 I, 1 | creature except man can recall the past at will.~With regard 2766 I, 10 | sometimes protrude, sometimes recede, sometimes are neither protruding 2767 I, 13 | enlargement; and it protrudes and recedes in the reverse directions 2768 I, 15 | seven-ribbed Ligyans we have not received any trustworthy evidence.~ 2769 I, 5 | its existence, whence it receives its name, but also because 2770 VIII, 13| breeding; for there are recesses there favourable for spawning, 2771 VI, 18 | appearance. The stallion recognizes by the scent the mares that 2772 IV, 8 | at a distance; and do so recognizing it by smell. Many insects 2773 VII, 1 | running, and besides this the recollection of pleasure associated with 2774 IX, 40 | most from hunger when they recommence work after winter. They 2775 III, 21 | cytisus in flower is not recommended, as it has burning properties, 2776 VI, 21 | kind: instances have been recorded of copulation in both sexes 2777 VI, 32 | along the spine. What is recounted concerning its genital organs, 2778 I, 16 | consequence is that we must have recourse to an examination of the 2779 VIII, 30| is, when they have fully recovered from the exhaustion of such 2780 VI, 9 | when the same trees are recovering their foliage. People that 2781 II, 17 | and at what is termed the "rectum". However, animals present 2782 II, 1 | simultaneously, but falls into a recumbent position on one side or 2783 v, 20 | interval at which the crises recur in intermittent fevers.~ 2784 VI, 37 | and for the rapidity of recurrence in the births. On one occasion 2785 VII, 3 | the menstrual discharge recurs for some time after conception 2786 IV, 2 | the male. The female has red-coloured eggs, which are adjacent 2787 v, 13 | is also black, and small, red-footed and rough-footed; and in 2788 IX, 49B| period. The erithacus (or redbreast) and the so-called redstart 2789 II, 14 | land congeners they are redder in colour, are furnished 2790 IX, 49B| redbreast) and the so-called redstart change into one another; 2791 II, 17 | simple, and if it have a reduplication or kink it loosens out again 2792 IX, 16 | 16~The reed-warbler makes its living as easily 2793 VI, 14 | overflowing of rivers, and near to reedy places in marshes; as for 2794 v, 16 | other lives on smooth flat reefs, free and detached, and 2795 I, 15 | the sense of touch more refined than any animal, and so 2796 IX, 8 | keep the eggs intact she refrains from visiting them. If she 2797 IX, 32 | because it once was a man and refused entertainment to a stranger. 2798 I, 15 | in order that a due and regular sequence may be observed 2799 v, 19 | then moves again, and again relapses into immobility; it then 2800 VI, 20 | The preceding statements relate to the female, and not one 2801 IV, 4 | on the left. Such are the relations of the anal vent in most 2802 VIII, 26| earth-mould it suffers from relaxation; but if it go on taking 2803 III, 4 | forearm, the patient is relieved of certain pains in the 2804 IX, 1 | first mentioned submits with reluctance to the duties of incubation, 2805 v, 19 | circumstance that he gives over reluctantly, all this has already been 2806 I, 2 | is taken, the belly; the remainder of the alimentary system 2807 VIII, 24| constitution, but no formal remedies are of any avail.~There 2808 VIII, 29| animal, and is the only remedy known for the bite of the 2809 VII, 10 | long afterwards before it remembers what it dreams.~In other 2810 VI, 3 | open the chick, a small remnant of the yolk is still left 2811 VIII, 5 | its prey entire without rending it at all; it will then 2812 III, 3 | chine, the eager javelin rends.~From this vessel there 2813 II, 1 | of two years, and again renews them. All other animals 2814 v, 8 | pull; this operation they repeat until they are drawn in 2815 VII, 1 | creates a longing for its repetition.~Some men are congenitally 2816 VII, 4 | the child is found to be replete with food of which the mother 2817 IX, 40 | inside the hive and feed to repletion ravenously. The kings never 2818 v, 18 | by way of a figure, let A represent the ovum, B and C the eyes, 2819 VI, 20 | consider that Homer did well in representing the dog of Ulysses as having 2820 v, 1 | parent-species is never reproduced, nor is any animal produced 2821 III, 12 | river Scamander also has the reputation of making lambs yellow, 2822 IX, 6 | Byzantium got into high repute for foretelling a change 2823 VIII, 22| The elephant, which is reputed to enjoy immunity from all 2824 III, 5 | of physical strength is required; that is to say, the epitonos 2825 v, 13 | with a sunny place and all requisites; unless they are so furnished, 2826 VI, 2 | affirm that wind-eggs are the residua of eggs previously begotten 2827 IX, 40 | and is a sort of dross or residual by-product of wax; it has 2828 IX, 20 | feeds only on mistletoe and resin; it is about the size of 2829 v, 22 | wax they gather from the resinous gum of trees, while honey 2830 VII, 3 | period the embryo begins to resolve into distinct parts, it 2831 IV, 8 | has a loud and alarming resonance to creatures that hear under 2832 IX, 12 | pools, as they naturally resort to places adapted to their 2833 IX, 38 | are more skilful and more resourceful than others. The way in 2834 VIII, 2 | furnished with this organ and respires thereby, and accordingly, 2835 VI, 3 | though the creature were respiring. So much as to generation 2836 IX, 40 | settling down, the bees restore the level surface, and put 2837 VIII, 26| from insomnia, they will be restored to health if their shoulders 2838 IX, 40 | fluttering about within a restricted space, and the bee-keeper 2839 VI, 14 | mingled with the eggs, the resulting product becomes very sticky 2840 VI, 17 | visible from day to day.~To resume, we must bear in mind that 2841 IX, 44 | to open ground, when he resumes his leisurely retreat. When, 2842 VIII, 5 | noise that resembles the retching noise of a man vomiting. 2843 VIII, 24| which is accompanied by a retention of urine and a drawing up 2844 IX, 1 | more deceptive, and of more retentive memory. She is also more 2845 I, 16 | brain-caul around it is reticulated with veins; and this brain-caul 2846 VI, 30 | parturition about the time for retiring into winter quarters; about 2847 IV, 4 | horns two long eyes, not retreating inwards, nor turning sideways 2848 II, 1 | but all female animals are retromingent: even the female elephant 2849 VII, 3 | pulled to bits the embryo is revealed, as big as one of the large 2850 IV, 9 | is produced by rubbing or reverberating with their long hind-legs.~ 2851 VII, 6 | impotent, and then again to revert to their former powers.~ 2852 IV, 2 | We must now proceed to review their several differentiae.~ 2853 IX, 47 | completed and could not be revoked, still by and by he bit 2854 III, 11 | increase of moisture or rheum. The eyelashes do not grow 2855 VI, 11 | there is a fish called the rhinobatus, with the head and front 2856 III, 3 | small blood-vessels at each rib and each vertebra; and at 2857 IV, 4 | shells; and of these some are ribbed, such as the scallop and 2858 II, 13 | case with the fish called Ribbon-fish. Some of the lanky fishes 2859 III, 21 | fair ones. Milk that is richest in cheese is the most nutritious, 2860 VI, 19 | and goats may be due to richness of pasturage, or to the 2861 VI, 18 | one another, throw their riders, and chase them. Wild boars, 2862 VI, 22 | Scythians use pregnant mares for riding when the embryo has turned 2863 v, 17 | for about twenty days it rids itself of them all in one 2864 I, 9 | black parts of the eyes rightly situated, and all the place 2865 VIII, 24| to tetanus: the veins get rigid, as also the head and neck, 2866 VIII, 10| with crisp wool stand the rigour of winter very poorly. Sheep 2867 VI, 4 | months old. Some assert that ringdoves and turtle-doves pair and 2868 III, 20 | wool is then washed and rinsed, and the rinsing put into 2869 VI, 10 | womb are simultaneously ripened and completed in growth.~ 2870 VIII, 8 | or bad. Green corn, while ripening, will give a smooth coat; 2871 VIII, 2 | for, when once they have risen to the surface, they find 2872 v, 22 | deposited chiefly at the risings of the constellations or 2873 v, 33 | to exceed six months. The river-crocodile lays a number of eggs, sixty 2874 VIII, 2 | seven or eight years. The river-eel feeds on his own species, 2875 VI, 14 | 14~Marsh-fishes and river-fishes conceive at the age of five 2876 VIII, 24| constitution of the hippopotamus or river-horse. In regard to water the 2877 v, 2 | places, and especially by river-sides in their usual haunts; the 2878 VIII, 13| owing to the amount of fresh river-water that discharges into the 2879 VI, 13 | up to full growth by the river-waters.~When the Euxine is "purged" 2880 VIII, 5 | the aspens that fringe the riversides. The otter will bite a man, 2881 VIII, 28| Pordoselene there is a public road one side of which the weasel 2882 IX, 3 | Even bulls, when they are roaming by themselves apart from 2883 IV, 6 | species of the sea-nettle roams freely abroad. The sea-nettle 2884 VI, 2 | the boiling than from the roasting of the egg. The yolk and 2885 v, 22 | to the hive.~Swarms are robbed of their honey on the appearance 2886 v, 22 | and is nick-named the "robber"; a fourth kind is the drone, 2887 IX, 40 | doors also. The so-called robber-bees spoil their own combs, and, 2888 VIII, 3 | black-cap, the bull-finch, the robin, the epilais, the midget-bird, 2889 VIII, 2 | excrement-as for instance the rock-crab-and are also carnivorous. The 2890 IV, 8 | the approach of the iron rod (for the animal, be it observed, 2891 VIII, 12| night-raven. It is a great rogue of a bird, and is a capital 2892 I, 15 | their feet, are prone to roguery. The joint common to thigh 2893 IX, 44 | nervous fear, is fond of romping with animals that have been 2894 I, 11 | Parts of the mouth are the roof or palate and the pharynx.~ 2895 IX, 14 | they vary in size; they are roofed over, and great part of 2896 IX, 30 | build under cover of some roofing-under a rock or in a cavern-for 2897 IX, 19 | lives on cliffs or on tile roofings; it has not a red beak as 2898 VIII, 3 | lastly the wren and the rook. The above-enumerated birds 2899 VIII, 3 | whatever; they live and roost also on the plants from 2900 VIII, 3 | its plumage is black. It roosts on trees, and is the only 2901 VI, 37 | turn up the mouse-holes by rooting with their snouts. Foxes 2902 IX, 1 | tie their front-legs with ropes to keep them quiet. The 2903 VIII, 21| neighbouring parts also soon rot, and the decay goes on until 2904 IV, 2 | elongated, that of the crab is rotund.~In the crawfish the male 2905 v, 8 | them in consequence of the rotundity of their stomachs.~So much 2906 VI, 13 | of the phycus, from which rouge is made; it comes at the 2907 v, 13 | and small, red-footed and rough-footed; and in consequence of these 2908 IV, 4 | milkshells", while others are rough-shelled, such as the pool-oyster 2909 IX, 40 | constructing its combs so roughly, some bee-keepers say that 2910 VI, 10 | again in consequence of the roughness of the tails of the young. 2911 IV, 2 | five fins on it; and the round-backed carid has a tail and four 2912 I, 16 | proportion, as is the case with round-faced animals; some have little 2913 IX, 1 | shrinking, more difficult to rouse to action, and requires 2914 IX, 40 | will turn back upon its route and by the aid of scent 2915 IV, 8 | as would be made by the rowing of a galley, so as to become 2916 IX, 1 | in passing a furze-bush, rubs its sore and itching parts 2917 IX, 37 | its feelers alongside as rudder-oars. If it be frightened it 2918 IX, 39 | and the large weaves a rude and poorly built one on 2919 IX, 6 | a snake, first eats wild rue, the smell of which is noxious 2920 VIII, 18| their plumage, which is ruffled when they are sickly instead 2921 VIII, 29| habits also: for instance, rugged highlands will not produce 2922 VIII, 27| grub that spins a web and ruins the honeycomb: it is called 2923 v, 21 | appears even when there is no ruler-bee in the hive, but that the 2924 v, 21 | cells of the comb, but the ruler-bees in cells down below attached 2925 VII, 2 | there occur spasms and rumbling noises within the womb until 2926 IX, 50 | habit is by some called "the Ruminant", (as well as other fish).~ 2927 IX, 50 | pleasure from the process of rumination, as they do from the process 2928 II, 12 | the belly; but the small rumped or short-tailed birds fly 2929 VI, 2 | laying-whereas pigeons trail their rumps on the ground, and geese 2930 VI, 17 | such fish as are nicknamed "runners". Latest in order of the 2931 VI, 2 | into the ground under his rush-mat and to keep on drinking 2932 v, 14 | thus drop, it may have to rut a second time before impregnation 2933 v, 11 | number of small eggs. The ryades or shoal-fishes breed in 2934 IX, 40 | the melilot-clover, king’s-spear, myrtle, flowering-reed, 2935 v, 11 | solstice; and the tunny lays a sac-like enclosure in which are contained 2936 v, 19 | stream what look like little sacks rather bigger than grapes, 2937 IV, 1 | head. The sepia has two sacs, and inside them a number 2938 VII, 1 | of boys, unless they be safeguarded from one temptation and 2939 IX, 12 | out to sea, and men, when sailing past the coast of Libya, 2940 VIII, 28| is something appalling; sailors spin a yarn to the effect 2941 v, 19 | other from the snow. Now the salamander is a clear case in point, 2942 VI, 15 | neighbourhood of Athens, at Salamis and near the tomb of Themistocles 2943 v, 24 | and this a wax is much sallower in hue than the wax in the 2944 IV, 8 | the labrax or basse, the salpe or saupe, the chromis or 2945 VII, 5 | The first of the milk is saltish, as it is likewise with 2946 IX, 40 | simple; it is good as a salve for sore eyes and wounds. 2947 II, 1 | when they get sore, with sandals.~The legs of all quadrupeds 2948 VIII, 3 | is also the trochilus (or sandpiper). The halcyon also, including 2949 III, 8 | In terrestrial viviparous sanguinea the gristle formations are 2950 IX, 40 | and the "tears" or exuding sap of trees, such as willows 2951 VIII, 30| the breeding time, as the saperdis, and some bad, as the sheat-fish. 2952 IV, 8 | or pain from the touch of sapid juices.~With regard to sight 2953 IX, 2 | eleginus, the atherine, the sarginus, the gar-fish, (the squid,) 2954 v, 11 | instance, the saupe and the sargus, and such others of this 2955 IX, 37 | from observation is not yet satisfactory; the shell, however, does 2956 VIII, 5 | the so-called castor, the satyrium, the otter, and the so-called 2957 VI, 2 | whites and pour them into a sauce pan and boil them slowly 2958 VIII, 4 | snakes by pouring wine into saucers and putting them into the 2959 VIII, 12| the parrot becomes more saucy than ever.~Of birds, the 2960 IX, 3 | the most foolish: it will saunter away to lonely places with 2961 II, 17 | scutes, and resembles the saurian in its back and belly; only, 2962 VI, 13 | on the spawning beds are saved. If all the eggs were preserved, 2963 IX, 45 | impervious to blows. Owing to the savour of its flesh it is sought 2964 VI, 11 | mentioned, (as are also the saw-fish and the ox-ray.)~ 2965 II, 1 | any animal possessed of "saw-teeth". The front teeth are usually 2966 III, 10 | fishes, and fishes only, have scales-that is, such oviparous fishes 2967 VIII, 3 | wag-tails". Then there is the scalidris, with plumage ashen-grey, 2968 IV, 1 | separate valve of a deep scallop-shell. This polypus lives very 2969 III, 12 | the other black. The river Scamander also has the reputation 2970 VII, 3 | of milk in the breasts is scant in quantity and so to speak 2971 v, 19 | the ass. The cantharus or scarabeus rolls a piece of dung into 2972 IX, 40 | called bee-bread; this is scarcer than honey and has a sweet 2973 VI, 31 | invented to account for the scarcity of the animal; for the animal 2974 VII, 6 | marks, such as pimples or scars. Such things have been known 2975 IX, 45 | dropping their young they scatter their dung in all directions, 2976 III, 7 | are found delicate spines scattered here and there throughout 2977 VI, 14 | while spawning, the spawn scatters, or so much of it as is 2978 IV, 8 | can detect the presence of scented objects afar off, as for 2979 VIII, 3 | ashen-coloured. There is also the schoenilus, the cinclus, and the white-rump. 2980 VI, 21 | month of Thargelion or of Scirophorion; some, however, are capable 2981 IX, 1 | more querulous, more apt to scold and to strike. She is, furthermore, 2982 IX, 45 | body. It tosses up dust and scoops out the ground with its 2983 VIII, 2 | of the water exposed to a scorching sun; for, when once they 2984 VI, 17 | from the egg what some call scordylae, but what the Byzantines 2985 v, 10 | or large-sized tunny, the scorpis, and many other species 2986 IX, 40 | bees soon die out.~Bees scramble up the stalks of flowers 2987 IX, 6 | cure for strangury; doctors scrape it into powder, and administer 2988 VI, 15 | dredges and the ground is scraped up fairly often, the fishes 2989 II, 11 | flesh anywhere except a few scraps of flesh on the head and 2990 IX, 32 | strike him with its wings and scratch him with its talons. The 2991 IX, 34 | good appetites, and so it scratches them with its talons. The 2992 IX, 8 | the spring-time, a noisy scrimmage takes place, out of which 2993 IV, 8 | overboard, are observed to scud off to a distance, from 2994 II, 1 | something resembling the sculptor’s "labyrinth". All the animals 2995 VI, 15 | matter that rises thence as a scum; for instance, the so-called 2996 IV, 8 | the shoal will be seen to scurry away in alarm. Again, there 2997 VI, 22 | promiscuity of intercourse occurs. Scythians use pregnant mares for riding 2998 IX, 14 | the bird. Its nest is like sea-balls, i.e. the things that by 2999 v, 16 | attached to a rock or on sea-beaches, and they get their nutriment 3000 IX, 34 | surface from its dive. When a sea-bird, emerging from the water, 3001 IX, 34 | feeds, as has been said, on sea-birds; when in pursuit of them 3002 VIII, 15| that very often, when the sea-bottom is dredged, more fish will