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birds with great cries and impetuosity ; pick out the eyes 

 of sheep and lambs when sick and helpless ; the Romans 

 thought it ominous, and from fear paid it profound venera- 

 tion ; Pliny's account of one kept in the temple of Castor, 

 that flew down into the shop of a tailor ; some have lived 

 near a hundred years ; in clear weather they fly in pairs to 

 a great height, making a deep loud noise different from their 

 usual croaking, iv. 177. The horned Indian raven, 186. 



Ray, (Mr) his method of classing animals, ii. 138. 



Ray, figure of the fish of this kind, and their differences ; 

 amazing dimensions of one speared by negroes at Guada- 

 loupe ; to credit the Norway Bishop, there are some above 

 a mile over ; supposed to be the largest inhabitants of the 

 deep ; chooses its retreat in such parts of the sea as have a 

 black muddy bottom ; the small approach the shores ; their 

 food; they generate in March and April, whentheyswim near 

 the surface of the water, several males pursuing one female ; 

 adhere so fast in coition, that the fishermen frequently draw 

 up both together, though only one was hooked ; three hun- 

 dred eggs taken out of the body of a ray ; in what manner 

 the eggs drop into the womb from the ovary, or egg-bag ; 

 breeding ceases in October, and in May are in highest per- 

 fection ; account of the method of taking them, v. 75. All 

 extremely delicate in their choice of baits ; a piece of her- 

 ring or haddock twelve hours out of the sea, and then used 

 as a bait, they will not touch ; best weather for taking them ; 

 method used by the Italians in the Mediterranean to take 

 this fish ; they bait a line of twenty miles long, with ten or 

 twelve thousand hooks ; no way of seizing the rough ray, but 

 by the little fin at the end of the tail, 82. 



Rays of light moderated, and their violence dissipated by the 

 air, i. 285. 



Rays of the sun, darted directly upon the surface of the water, 

 compared to so many bars of red-hot iron, i. 315. 



Razor-fish, the coryphaena of the prickly-finned thoracic kind ; 

 its description, v. 120. 



Razor-shell, the pivot, its motion and habits ; is allured by salt, 

 v. 240. 



Red-breast, a song-bird, seemingly mild; claims a district, 

 whence it seldom moves, but drives away every one of the 

 same species without pity, iv. 25. Its voice has the deli- 

 cacy of the flute ; places where found ; its nest, and the 

 number of eggs, 269. 



Red-shank, a kind of crane, iv. 340. 



Red-start, a bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 255. 



Red-wing, or field-fare, bird of passage ; its nest and eggs, 

 iv. 262. 



Reed, stuck into the ground in Persia, where the earth is im- 

 pregnated with inflammable vapours, continues to burn like 

 a flambeau, i. 76. 



