INDEX. 



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the male and female incubate by 



turns, 147, 202, 240 ; nest, 249. 

 ), perhaps the osprey, Vultur 



ossifragus, Buffon, nurses the 



young of the eagle, 146 ; its food 



and shape, 201, 251. 

 *0a'|0, louse, Pediculus capitis and 



P. pubis, KOVIQ, nit, 120, 134 ; 



in birds, ib. in fish, Lernea, 97, 



135; in the fish chalcis, 220. 

 *0ipa, a fish that follows the dol- 



phin, Centronotus, 135. 

 #\fw, a water plant, Poterium 



spinosum, 266. 

 <f>oii'OKoupo, redstart, Sylvia Pho- 



nicurus, 276 ; in winter called 



, a river fish, Cyprinus phox- 



inus, Struck, 153, 155. 

 $pvvrj, toad, Bufo vulgaris, 39, 87 ; 



eaten by the buzzard, 232 ; inju- 



rious to bees, 265. 

 *piivoXdxo, a kind of hawk, per- 



haps the buzzard, 253. 

 QVKIOV, fucus, sea- weed, 122, 125, 



154, 199, 200, 255. 

 $yirt, a fish living on sea-weed, 



Gobius niger, 154; food, 200; 



changes its colour, and is the only 



fish that makes nests, 228. 

 *'/coe, fucus, 154, 158, 218, 220. 

 *w/caivct, porpoise, Delphinus Pho- 



caBna, 152, 212. 

 ?, seal, Phoca vitulina, P. mo- 



nacbus, 4, 7, 14, 22, 25, 26, 30, 



39, 44, 69; reproduction and 



habits, 103, 152, 153, 196 ; food, 



205 ; fight together, 231. 

 wXt, a fish enclosing itself in 



mucus, 256 ; Blennius pholis, 



Struck. 

 wp, a kind of bee, the thief, 259. 



XaXad, Hydatids in swine, 221. 

 \a\Ktvq, a fish, Dory, Zeus Faber, 

 Strack, 95. 



tf, a lizard, with a bright stripe 



on its back, Lacerta chalcides, 

 223. 



XaX/ctf, a bird, the same as KW/UV- 

 SIQ, Stryx flammea, Strack, 244. 



Xa/\/cif, a fish, perhaps Mugil au- 

 ratus, Spratt's Lycia^ Clupea 

 picta, 108, 155, 156, 256. 



XaXictrtg XiOoQ, lime stone, 126. 



Xdvvr), or ^avn, a fish with a wi !e 

 mouth, Perca cabrilla, 99, 153; 

 food, 199; marine, 211. 



Xapafynof, lapwing or curlew, 

 Charadrius cedicnemus, Schneider, 

 203. 243. 



yWo>V, swallow, Hirundo urbica 

 and rustica, 4, 40, 45, 64; re- 

 production and nests, 111, 138, 

 145, 239 ; eat animal food, 202 ; 

 migration, 215 ; kill bees, 265. 



X.t\idh)v, flying fish, 95 ; Exocetus 

 volitans. 



Xe^jOOTTff, leguminous plants, 205. 



Xs'Awv, or xXXwi/, a fi sa ij]j e t j le 

 cestreus, 109, 159, 199. 



XeXwi/i/, the river tortoise, Testudo 

 orbicularis and Europaea, 34, 39, 

 41, 42, 46, 65, 84, 87, 96 ; repro- 

 duction, 103, 104, 123; marine, 

 Chelonia cephalo, 196; lives on 

 shell-fish and sea-weed, 198 ; does 

 not change its skin, 216, 238. 



Xrjur), a large bivalve shell, Chama, 

 117. 



X}j/, goose, Anser domesticus and 

 Anas segetum, 6, 27, 45, 47 ; gos- 

 ling, 140, 141 ; incubation, 146, 

 147 ; different kinds, 203, 210. 



Xji>aXa>7rr/, an Egyptian goose, 

 Anas tadorna, Strack, 140, 203. 



Xt'/natpa, probably the she goat, 72. 



XX wpivc, perhaps the same as x^w- 

 pio)V, a foe to the woodpecker, and 

 kills the turtle dove, Falco lana- 

 rius, 232. 



XXwpfg, Motacilla fitis, or Loxia 

 chloris, Strack, eats worms, 202 

 shape, eggs, nest, 245, 249. 



X\(upi(uv, perhaps oriole, Oriolus 

 galbula, Strack, attacks the black- 

 bird, 233, 248. 



