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INDEX. 



Vitex agnus castus, a tree | 

 like a willow, the branches of 

 which the matrons strewed on their 

 beds at the Thesmophoria, 266. 



ASpiavicai dXtKrOfjifoe, a small 

 kind of domestic fowl, 138. 



A(T&amp;lt;cw*/&amp;gt;, a kind of owl. Stryx 

 aluco, Struck, 249. Brown Owl. 

 There is also another migratory 

 kind mentioned, 2-19, which does 

 not hoot. 



At po;//, the Boeotian name of the 

 Merops, M. apiaster, 138. 



Afr6e, or aitroe. Eagle, hence the 

 Latin avis, 9, 61 ; its eggs and 

 young, 146 ; two species, the Py- 

 gargus haliaetus, and the black 

 eagle, Aquila anutaria or Falco nae- 

 vius, ib. ; several species, 201, 250 ; 

 used in augury, 217 ; eats serpents, ; 

 231 ; food and manners, 251 ; true 

 eagles, Falco chrysaetos, ib. ; the 

 sagle kills the heron, 233 ; it fights 

 with the vulture and the swan. ib. ; 

 a kind of eagle in Scytbia 252. 



A lSiJv, nightingale, Sylvia luscinia, 

 its song, 95, 96 ; reproduction, 

 108 ; its tongue, 246 ; changes 

 its song and colour, 276. 



APepivt], Atheriua presbyter, Spratt s 

 Lycia, or A. vera, in modern 

 Greek atherno, 159 ; its reproduc 

 tion, 160, 234. 



, Par us, Tit or Titmouse, 



eats worms, 202 ; three species, 

 ib. ; lays many eggs, 246 ; an 

 enemy to bees, 265 ; airi^irr)s t 

 parus major, Struck, opeivos, 

 Parus ater, Strack, or P. caudatus. 

 VTOQ, Parus coeruleus. 

 , Bunting, Einberiza, Strack, 

 or hedge sparrow or Parus cceru- 

 leus, dislikes the ass, builds in 

 hedges, 232 ; hostile to the anthus 

 and acanthis, 233; its food and 

 young, 246. 



Aiyo0/ jXac, goat sucker, Caprimul- 

 gus Europseus, 250. 



Aiyo 0aXo, Stryx otUs, Struck, 

 39. 



Aiyvirtbg, the Vulture, it is hostile 

 to the jEsalon (small hawk), 9, 

 23 ; and fights with the eagle, ib. 



AiyuTTTOf, Egypt, the Egyptians 

 hatch eggs in manure, 139; two 

 kinds of Egyptian mice, one with 

 stiff hair (Hierax, or Aulacodus 

 Swinderianus), another with long 

 hind legs (Jerboa, or Cavia), 178 ; 

 the care of animals among the 

 Egyptians, 231 ; a large kind of 

 oxen in Egypt, 226 ; asp and ich 

 neumon, 238 ; white and black 

 ibis, 242. 



Aiyw\io, a night bird of prey, 

 Stryx passerina, Strack. or 8. 

 flummea. Camus. La chouette, 

 little owl, 201 ; kills the calaris, 



