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terrestris, forms an angular cell 

 of mud, 131. 



Bo^/3t&amp;gt;Xiof, larva of silk worm, 124; 

 the bumblebee, 260, 271. 



Bo^/3i$, silkworm. 



Bovaffffoc, Antelope bonassus, or 

 Bos Urus, Bison, 26, 28; its 

 country, form, habits, hunting, 

 273. 



Bo&amp;lt;T(cac, Anas boscas, or A. Crecca, 

 203. 



Bo&amp;lt;Trpijx&amp;lt;K , insect, Lampyris noc- 

 tiluoa, Strack, 125. 



Bo /3aXif, Antilope Gnou, 58. 



BoCf, Hos taurus, Ox, 5, 27, 28. 29, 

 30, 41, 62 ; milk, 69 ; dreams, 97 ; 

 lowing of the bull, 100, 112; 

 coition, 103 ; tormented with lice, 

 135; sexual desires, 161, 162; 

 discharges and urine of the cow, 

 163; reproductive powers of bull, 

 168; the castrated aniniiil is taught 

 to lead the herd, ib. ; teeth, milk, 

 and habits, ib. ; veins in the em 

 bryo, 190 ; mode of drinking, 

 205; care of the ox, 206; red 

 cattle of Epirus, 207 ; diseases, 

 219, 222 ; the ox drinks pi:re 

 water, 224 ; Egyptian oxen, 226 ; 

 habits, 236; wild oxen, B. Bu- 

 balus, 26 ; one species of ox hits 

 a bone in its heart, 39 ; oxen in 

 Phrygia which can move their 

 horns, 61 ; small oxen in Pliiisis, 

 71 ; oxen in Epirus, ib. ; in Tor- 

 tona, 72 ; the cow brings forth at 

 a year old, 113; Syrian oxen, 

 226 ; castration of the young, 

 278 ; rumination, ib. 



Boi-c, a cartilaginous fish, Kaia cor- 

 nuta, 104, 152. 



Bpe vflof, a sea-bird, Anas tadorna, 

 hostile to the larus an.i harpa, 

 232 ; makes its nest in hills and 

 woody places, 244. 



Bpvac, a large owl, Stryx bubo, 

 201. 



Bpvov, algae, both fresh-water and 

 marine, 155, 200, 2JO. 



c, an echinite, Scutella, 102. 



w/ioXoxoc, Corvus tnonedula, 248 

 w, a gregarious fish, Sparus 

 hoops, 234 ; contracted from 

 Boa, from the sound it makes. 



FaXac, a kind of smooth shell-fish, 

 mya pictorum, 82. 



TaXtoe, a cartilaginous fish, Squalus 

 galeus and characliias, Struck, or 

 Gadus lota, 8, 41, 49, 108, 149, 

 151; uterus and ova, 150; re 

 ceives its young into itself, ib. ; 

 not found in the Pyrrhamn 

 Euripus, 256. 



raAfiitff/, fish of the shark kind, 87, 

 40, 41 ; placed under the selache, 

 104, 149 ; the males have appen 

 dages, 104 ; the uterus, 149 ; ga- 

 lei and galeodi s, 151. 



PaAjj, wt Hsel, martin, polecat, Mus- 

 tela Faro, II. Erminca, M. vul- 

 garis, 20 ; the wild kind hunts 

 mice, 178; hostile to the crow, 

 232 ; it attacks serpents, 233 ; in 

 Porosclene, 225 ; it fights with 

 serpents, especially with those 

 called myotherae, 238 ; its form 

 compared with the irtis, 239; eats 

 birds eggs, 232 ; mode of attack 

 ing its prey, 238. 



1 tpoj og, crnnc, Ardea grus, 2,4, 64; 

 coition, 102; rigrations ot the 

 male bird, 209 ; they migrate 

 after the quails, ib. ; the fable of 

 the stone they are said to carry, 

 210 ; gregarious, ib. ; migrations, 

 leaders, prudence, 243 ; they fight 

 with each other, the number of 

 their eggs, 245. 



Fii vof, the offspring of a mule wiin 

 a mare or she ass, 11 ; seeii/vc^. 



FXavif, a fresh-water fish, Silurus 

 glanis, Strac/c, 9, 38, 40, 219; 

 conjoined spawn, 155 : two spe 

 cies, the greater and the smaller, 

 the male watches the spawn, ib. ; 

 size of the ova, 156 ; diseases, 219; 

 unfi*. to eat when in spaun, the 



