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INDEX. 



terrestris, forms an angular cell I 

 of mud, 131. 



Boju/3wXio, larva of silk worm, 124; 

 the humble bee, 260, 271. 



Bo|/3i;, silkworm. 



B6i>a<T(TO, Antelope bonassus, or 

 Bos Urus, Bison, 26, 28; its 

 country, form, habits, hunting, 

 273. 



Boo-Kag, Anas boscas, or A. Crecca, 

 203. 



BoffTpv^OQ, insect, Lampyris noc- 

 tiluca, Strack, 125. 



Boi'SaXic, Antilope Gnou, 58. 



, Bos 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 animal 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 pure 

 water, 224 ; Egyptian oxen, 226 ; 

 habits, 236; wild oxen, B. Bu- 

 balus, 26 ; one species of ox has 

 a bone in its heart, 39 ; oxen in 

 Phrygia which can move their 

 horns, 61 ; small oxen in Phasis, 

 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. 

 Of, a cartilaginous fish, Raia cor- 

 nuta, 104, 152. 



Bps'rOoe, a sea-bird, Anas tadorna, 

 hostile to the larus and harpa, 

 232 ; makes its nest in hills and 

 woody places, 244. 



Bpwac, a large owl, Stryx bubo, 

 201. 



Bpwov, algae, both fresh-water and 

 marine, 155, 200, 220. 



, an echinite, Scutella, 102. 



, Corvus monedula, 238 

 Bwif, a gregarious fish, Sparus 

 boops, 234 ; contracted from 

 B6a, from the sound it makes. 



, a kind of smooth shell-fish, 

 mya pictorum, 82. 

 XsoQ, a cartilaginous fish, Squalus 

 galeus and charachias, Strack, or 

 Gadus lota, 8, 44, 49, 108, 149, 

 151; uterus and ova, 150 ; re- 

 ceives its young into itself, ib. : 

 not found in the Pyrrhrcan 

 Euripus, 256. 



ri, fish of the shark kind, 37. 

 40, 41 ; placed under the selaclie. 

 104, 149 ; the males have appen- 

 dages, 104 ; the uterus, 149 ; ga- 

 lei and galeodes, 151. 



FaX ijj, weasel, martin, polecat, Mus- 

 tela Faro, M. Errainea, M. vul- 

 garis, 20 ; the wild kind hunt. 

 mice, 178; hostile to the crow 

 232 ; it attacks serpents, 233 ; ii 

 Poroselene, 225 ; it fights witl 

 serpents, especially with thos< 

 called myotherze, 238 ; its forn 

 compared with the ictis, 239 ; eat 

 birds' eggs, 232 ; mode of attack 

 ing its prey, 238. 



VtpavoQ, crane, Ardeagrus, 2, 4, 64 

 coition, 102; migrations of th 

 male bird, 209 ; they migrat 

 after the quails, ib. ; the fable o , 

 the stone they are said to carrj 

 210 ; gregarious, ib. ; migratiom 

 leaders, prudence, 243 ; they figl 

 with each other, the number ( 

 their eggs, 245. 



Ft j/a/o, the offspring of a mule wit 

 a mare or she ass, 11 ; see Wvof. 



rXavif, a fresh-water fish, Siluri 

 glanis, Strack, 9, 38, 40, 2H 

 conjoined spawn, 155 : two sp< 

 cies, the greater and the smalU 

 the male watches the spawn, ib 

 size of the ova, 156 ; diseases, 21 

 unfit to eat when in spawn, tl 



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