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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. 



Adpun'iKai dXiKTOpidt^, a small 

 kind of domestic fowl, 138. 



Aeitncwift, a kind of owl. Stryx 

 aluco, Strack t 249. Brown Owl. 

 There is also another migratory 

 kind mentioned, 249, which does 

 not hoot. 



'A'poi//, the Bosotian name of the 

 Merops, M. apiaster, 138. 



Afrog, or attro, Eagle, hence the 

 Latin avis, 9, 61 ; its eggs and 

 young, 146 ; two species, the Py- 

 gargus halisetus, and the black 

 eagle, Aquila anataria or Falco nae- 

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

 used in augury, 2 17 ; 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 Scythia, 252. 

 *A/;5wv, nightingale, Sylvia luscinia, 

 its song, 95, 96 ; reproduction, 

 108 ; its tongue, 246 ; changes 

 its song and colour, 276. 



A9s pi j/j;, Atherina presbyter, Spratt's 

 Lycia, or A. vera, in modern 

 Greek atherno, 159 ; its reproduc- 

 tion, 160, 234. 



A.iyiOa\o, Parus, Tit or Titmouse, 



eats worms, 202 : three species, 

 ib. ; lays many eggs, 246 ; an 

 enemy to bees, 265 ; o-7rttr?j, 

 parus major, Struck, opeivoe, 

 Parus ater, Struck, or P. caudatus. 

 k\d-i<jTOQ, Parus cceruleus. 



oe, Bunting, Einberiza, St>ack, 

 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;/Aae, goat sucker, Caprimul- 

 gus EuropaBus, 250. 



'Aiyoicf'^aXof, Stryx otus, Struck, 

 39. 



Ai'yuTTtof, the Vulture, it is hostile 

 to the JEsalon (small hawk), 9, 

 23 ; and fights with the eagle, ib. 



AiywTrro^, 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. 



Ai'ywXiof, a night bird of prey, 

 Stryx passerina, Strack. or S. 

 flammea. Camus. La chouette, 

 little owl, 201 ; kills the calaria, 



