X CONTENTS. 



Chap. Page 



5. When the eagle was first used as the standard of the Roman 



legions 485 



6. An eagle which precipitated itself on the funeral pile of a girl. . 486 



7. The vulture ib. 



8. The birds called sangualis and immusulus 487 



9. Hawks. The buteo ib. 



10. In what places hawks and men pursue the chase in company 



with each other 488 



11. The only bird that is killed by those of its own kind. — A bird 



that lays only one e^g 489 



12. The kite 490 



13. The classification of birds ib. 



14. Crows. Birds of ill omen. At what seasons they are not inauspi- 



cious ib. 



15. The raven 491 



16. The horned owl .. 492 



17. Birds, the race of which is extinct, or of which all knowledge has 



been lost 



18. Birds which are born with the tail first 493 



19. The owlet 494 



20. The wood-pecker of Mars ib. 



21. Birds which have hooked talons .. 495 



22. The peacock ib. 



23. Who was the first to kill the peacock for food. "VSTio first taught 



the art of cramming them 496 



24. The dunghill cock ib. 



25. How cocks are castrated. A cock that once spoke .... . . 498 



26. The goose ib. 



27. Who first taught us to use the liver of the goose for food . . . . 499 



28. The Commagenian medicament 500 



29. The chenalopex, the cheneros, the tetrao, and the otis . . . . ib. 



30. Cranes 501 



31. Storks 502 



32. Swans ib. 



33. Foreign birds which visit us ; the quail, the glottis, the cychramus, 



and the otus 503 



34. Swallows 505 



35. Birds which take their departure from us, and whither they go ; 



the thrusli, the blackbird, and the starling— birds which lose 

 their feathers during their retirement — the turtle-dove and the 



ring-dove — the flight of starlings and swallows ib. 



36. Birds which remain with us throughout the year; birds which 



remain with us only six or three months ; whitwalls and hoopoes 506 



37. The Memnonides lb. 



38. The Meleagrides 507 



39. The Soleucides ib. 



40. The ibis ib. 



41. Places in which certain birds are never found ib. 



42. The various kinds of birds which afford omens by their note. 



Birds which change their colour and their voice 509 



