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INDEX. 



, Sylvia trocbilus, Struck, 

 also called Presbys, and Basileus, 

 perhaps th.e wren, Sylvia troglo- 

 dytes, S. regulus, 203, 233 ; also 

 a bird living by the sea, chara- 

 drius Egyptiacus, 203 ; picks the 

 teeth of the crocodile, 238 ; hates 

 the eagle, 232. 



Tpuyyag, perhaps Tringa ochro- 

 podes, Schneider, T. vauellus, 203, 

 244, 



Tpuyywv, Turtle dove, Columba 

 turtur, the smallest of the dove 

 -tribe, 111; young and eggs, 138, 

 145, 240; food, 202; migrates, 

 210; hybernates, 215 ; an enemy 

 to the pyrallis, but killed by the 

 chloreus, 232; friendly with the 

 cottyphus, 234 ; life, 240 ; habita- 

 tion, ib ; perhaps Psophila crepi- 

 tans, or Rallus crex, 277. 



Tpvy</Jf, a sea-fish, B,aia pastinaca, 

 8, 104, 149, 211; method of 

 taking its prey, 255. 



Tptryoiv, some oviparous quadruped, 

 103. 



Tiipavi/oe, golden-crested wren, 

 Motacilla Regulus, 202. 



Tvq>\ivr]Q, blind worm, Lacerta 

 Apus, Schneider, 154, 223. 



"Yati/a, Hysena Striata, 176; also 



called y\dvoQ, 204. 

 'Y/3pi, a night bird of prey, 244. 

 "Yfyof, a water-serpent, Coluber 



natrix, 3, 44. 

 "YTraitrof, a kind of eagle, also 



written yuTrcritroe, 252. 

 "YTrtpa, a kind of caterpillar, Geo- 



metra, 124. 

 'YTToXate, hedge sparrow, Sylvia 



horteusis or curruca, 147, 202, 



249. 



> buzzard, 253, see 



66 ; heats, 69 ; voice, 96 ; sow, is 

 without tusks, 100 ; reproduction, 

 107, 112, 114, 135, 162, 163; 

 domestic swine, 164 ; /utra\'opa, 

 173 ; they dig up the runs of mice, 

 178; eat roots, 206; how fat- 

 tened, ib. ; diseases, 221 ; swine 

 in Mount Athos, 227 ; killed by 

 scorpions, ib. ; devour serpents, 

 233 ; gelding of sows, 278. 



"Yf cfypeof, the wild boar, 5, 26, 

 161, 174. 



"Yo-rpi, porcupine, Hystrix cristata, 

 138; compared with the bear, 

 175 ; hybernates, 215 ; throws 

 out its quills, 260. 



"Ye, swine, Sus scropha, 26; with 

 single tDof in Poeonia, 27, 29: 

 boar, 31 ; 32 ; swine, 35, 42, 46, 



, a kind of hawk, Falcc 

 palumbarius, 201. 



<aypoe, a sea-fish, Sparus pagrus, 

 211, 218. 



<t>rtXayytoi', a kind of spider, Pha- 

 langium, Aranea Tarantula, 1 00, 

 107, 121,123; reproduction, 132; 

 patient of hunger, 204; hostile to 

 the ichneumon, 232; several kinds 

 described, 258, 259. 



$dAay, a spider, 231. 



4>aXoiva, whale, Physeter Chacal- 

 otus, Struck, P. macrocephalus, 8, 

 69, 152; respiration, 196. 



<JaXapi, coot, Fulica atra, 203. 



4>aX?7pt;c>} a0vj7,some kind of spawn, 

 158. 



$oTiavoc, pheasant, Phasianus Col- 

 chicus, 134, 139, 277. 



<bavao<f>6i>og, a hawk, probably the 

 same as 0a/3oriXo 253. 



fca'rra, a kind of pigeon, Columba 

 palumbus, 45, 47 ; the largest 

 of the pigeon kind, 111; repro- 

 duction and eggs, 138, 144, J45, 

 147, 202; migrates, 210; some- 

 times hybernates, 215 ; likes 

 drought, 217; mode of drinking, 

 240, habits, ib. ; does not coo in 

 winter, 276. 



*ai//, a kind of doye, Columba livis, 



