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Alphabetical [« »] big 1 bipeds 1 bird 10 birds 115 birth 40 bit 1 bitch 1 | Frequency [« »] 119 kind 118 comes 117 many 115 birds 113 another 113 each 109 much | Aristotle On the Generation of Animals IntraText - Concordances birds |
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1 I, 3 | and having a lung) to all birds and oviparous quadrupeds. 2 I, 3 | the hypozoma (as in all birds and in viviparous fishes). 3 I, 4 | not yet been drawn up. In birds and oviparous quadrupeds 4 I, 4 | is clear in the case of birds, for their testes are much 5 I, 5 | them to have it, but for birds and the footless animals 6 I, 5 | the same reason as with birds, because their union must 7 I, 8 | viviparous quadrupeds), high in birds and all oviparous quadrupeds. 8 I, 8 | to seed.~But the eggs of birds and the quadrupedal ovipara 9 I, 11| most part the same as in birds, for the egg descends and 10 I, 12| scaly animals. The skin of birds also is hard so that it 11 I, 12| in fishes compared with birds and oviparous quadrupeds. 12 I, 21| scoleces.~What occurs in birds and oviparous fishes is 13 I, 21| are anxious to rear fine birds act thus; they change the 14 I, 21| Yet in some animals, as birds, the nature of the female 15 II, 1 | a perfect condition (as birds and all oviparous quadrupeds 16 II, 1 | bipeds are viviparous (for birds are oviparous), nor are 17 II, 1 | egg within themselves. For birds and scaly reptiles because 18 II, 4 | uterus near the hypozoma, as birds and viviparous fishes, it 19 II, 5 | plain in the case of the birds that lay wind-eggs, showing 20 II, 6 | say. This is manifest in birds, fishes, and insects. For 21 II, 7 | seen to take place in those birds that are amative, as partridges 22 II, 7 | partridges and hens. Among birds of prey hawks of different 23 II, 7 | same applies to some other birds. Nothing worth mentioning 24 III, 1 | But among the ovipara (1) birds produce a perfect hard-shelled 25 III, 1 | disease, and the eggs of birds are all two-coloured. (2) 26 III, 1 | and sometimes high, as in birds.~Some embryos are formed 27 III, 1 | Some embryos are formed in birds spontaneously, which are 28 III, 1 | by some; these occur in birds which are not given to flight 29 III, 1 | produce many young, for these birds have much residual matter, 30 III, 1 | residual matter, whereas in the birds of prey all such secretion 31 III, 1 | for this same reason the birds of prey are neither given 32 III, 1 | many eggs, as are the heavy birds and those flying birds whose 33 III, 1 | heavy birds and those flying birds whose bodies are bulky, 34 III, 1 | secreted largely in the heavy birds not given to flying, such 35 III, 1 | produce much material. Of such birds some lay many eggs at a 36 III, 1 | For these are between the birds of prey and the heavy ones; 37 III, 1 | their food, whereas the birds of prey do so with difficulty.~ 38 III, 1 | so with difficulty.~Small birds also tread often and are 39 III, 1 | producing young. And other birds are more fertile than game-fowl, 40 III, 1 | making the former class of birds naturally inclined to tread 41 III, 1 | being added at the other. Birds of prey, on the contrary, 42 III, 1 | it is pursued by all the birds and lays eggs in the nests 43 III, 1 | the facts that with the birds that lay many eggs the nutriment 44 III, 1 | after this. For both the birds the plants become exhausted, 45 III, 1 | have now stated in which birds wind-eggs are found, and 46 III, 1 | found, and also what sort of birds lay many eggs or few, and 47 III, 1 | the female of all animals, birds have no discharge of catamenia 48 III, 1 | same applies to fish as to birds, and so in them as in birds 49 III, 1 | birds, and so in them as in birds is found an embryonic formation 50 III, 1 | of vivipara is formed in birds at the appropriate season 51 III, 1 | size is concerned, but in birds and fishes alike it is imperfect 52 III, 1 | not formed in the flying birds, for the same reason as 53 III, 1 | for the residual matter in birds of prey is small, and they 54 III, 1 | observed, then, that neither birds’ nor fishes’ eggs are perfected 55 III, 1 | speaking in the case of birds even the impregnated eggs 56 III, 1 | so this happens also with birds; the residual matter corresponding 57 III, 1 | a slight touch. And such birds are of a lascivious and 58 III, 1 | that lay eggs externally birds produce their egg perfect, 59 III, 1 | passage. While the eggs of birds are two-coloured, those 60 III, 1 | is what we find in lake birds, for they are of a moister 61 III, 1 | are colder than the land birds, so that the so-called " 62 III, 1 | yolk in the eggs of such birds is large and less yellow 63 III, 1 | white. Even the wind-eggs of birds have this distinction of 64 III, 1 | therefore at first the egg in birds appears white and small, 65 III, 2 | breasts, Nature does this for birds in the egg. The opposite, 66 III, 2 | incubation, both those of birds and those of oviparous quadrupeds. 67 III, 2 | the same way as those of birds, for they are hard-shelled 68 III, 2 | hypozoma as are those of birds, and in all other respects 69 III, 2 | their strength, those of birds are more exposed to destruction 70 III, 2 | and some quadrupeds; with birds we find it till they have 71 III, 2 | should be the case with the birds that lay many eggs, for 72 III, 2 | happens none the less with the birds of prey though they lay 73 III, 2 | hatched in all those, whether birds or quadrupeds, which lay 74 III, 3 | circumference, being colder than birds), the egg of the frog-fish 75 III, 3 | partly different from that in birds’ eggs. In the first place 76 III, 3 | attached to the uterus, as in birds, for the chick is developed 77 III, 3 | reason is that the egg of birds is separated from the uterus 78 III, 3 | consumed by it just as in birds and the other animals detached 79 III, 3 | asked why the development of birds and cartilaginous fishes 80 III, 3 | respect. The reason is that in birds the white and yolk are separate, 81 III, 3 | fishes differs from that of birds, but otherwise it takes 82 III, 3 | in like manner as that of birds connecting with the yolk,— 83 III, 5 | fish-eggs differ from those of birds in one circumstance. Birds 84 III, 5 | birds in one circumstance. Birds and all oviparous quadrupeds, 85 III, 5 | For just as the class of birds in some cases has eggs without 86 III, 5 | fluid upon them. Now in birds this must take place while 87 III, 6 | also of the generation of birds. For there are some who 88 III, 6 | consideration. Concerning the birds, they are deceived by a 89 III, 6 | their beaks, as do all the birds of the raven family; this 90 III, 6 | with domesticated jackdaws. Birds of the pigeon kind do the 91 III, 6 | not amorous, for they are birds that produce few young, 92 III, 6 | the nutriment; and these birds have a uterus like others, 93 III, 7 | discussions, the eggs of birds are perfected internally 94 III, 7 | perfection of the egg both of birds and of fishes, only in the 95 III, 7 | the same in both cases.~In birds the wind-eggs become fertile, 96 III, 7 | with them as with those of birds. This fact is what we should 97 III, 7 | off from one another, the birds egg already contains the 98 III, 7 | male sex in the class of birds, the egg would have been 99 III, 7 | both sexes exist in all birds, so that, considered as 100 III, 9 | being by copulation, like birds and vivipara and most fishes, 101 IV, 4 | with one another. But in birds, he says, since copulation 102 IV, 4 | producing many, most of all in birds and among birds in the common 103 IV, 4 | of all in birds and among birds in the common fowl. For 104 IV, 5 | this intercourse. And among birds the hens are less disposed 105 IV, 5 | that, if any kind of such birds has much semen naturally, 106 IV, 6 | plants.~The young of some birds also are hatched imperfect, 107 IV, 6 | this applies to all small birds which lay many eggs, as 108 IV, 6 | their sight again, for the birds are still developing, not 109 IV, 6 | with aquatic animals and birds. If it ever happens that 110 V, 3 | to it, as the feathers of birds and scales in the class 111 V, 3 | others are deciduous, and birds which hibernate shed their 112 V, 6 | condition exists also in birds, fish, and the other classes 113 V, 6 | cattle and goats and, among birds, pigeons; the same applies 114 V, 6 | applies also to other kinds of birds. The whole-coloured change 115 V, 6 | also vari-coloured.~Some birds and some wild quadrupeds