NATURAL HISTOKV. 



Found in Greece, 



20. C. Aureus -"Qa.v.uy.r,;, 



21. Phoca Vitulina (puKix. 



22. V^espertilio Rapes- iv;:7-£fi<'(?«. 

 tris 



23. Felis Lynx 



24. Felis Catus sjlv. 



25. Mustela Martes 



26. M. Lutra 



27. Ursus Arctos 



28. U. Meles 



29. Talpa Europtta 



30. Sus Scropa dom. 



31. Sorex Europceus zrsiTiXo; txc y%:- 



32. Lepus Cuniculus y.:meXr,. 



33. Sciurus Glis l2iv!ze^iT^«. 



34. Cervus Elaplius Aaip*. 



35. C. Capieolus ^a^v.dSi 



36. Bos Bubalus !2cvlcxXi. 



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Najites in jmrts of Greece. 



Id. in Tlicssal. 

 Id. in Tliessal. 



Id. in Thessal. 



Xa(pou in Thessal. 

 Id. in Thessal. 



Notes by the Editor. 



21. Phoca Vitulina, the >paixr] of Aristotle and Oppian. — Pennant, B. Z. ii. 



'2G. Mustela Lutra, the svuS^i.- of the ancient Greeks, as is evident from the Mosaic of 

 Prsneste. " The Kxtu^ of Aristotle, lib. viii. c. 5. (says Pennant), is possibly a larcfe 

 variet}' of otter." B. Z. ii. One of the Romaic names of the otter, /S/Sca, is very similar 

 to the Poli!.li Wydra. 



28. Ursus Meles. " The badger (says BulFon) was not known to the Greeks, and is 

 not mentioned by Aristotle. Le blaireau n'a jias meme de nom dans la lano-ucGrecque. 

 This species of quadruped, an original native of the temperate climates of Europe, has 

 never spread beyond Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Poland, Sweden." Bad- 

 gers' skins are mentioned in the Pentateuch; and it was not only seen in Thessaly and 

 other parts of Greece by Dr. Sibthorp, but Mr. Hawkins found it in Crete, where it bears 

 also the name aa/3o;. As we now know to what animal this Greek word is applied, we 

 may explain Du Cange in v. 'Aj/Soc, p. 137. "Animal Fuchsio incognitum," he says. 



35. Cervus Capreol us, ^apxaSi, corruptetl from the ancient Jopxaj, the Caprea of Pliny. 



36. Bos Bubalus, " unknown to the Greeks and Romans; the bubalus of the ancients 

 is a different animal." — Buffon. 



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