[p- 15] De decem generibus Accipitrum. 



Buteo. 



Aefalo. 

 Circus. 



Percas 



Fringillarij. 



Rubetarij. 



ARISTOTELES 1 . 



A CCIPITRUM genus praecipuum Buteo 

 2~ eft, Triorcha 2 a numero teftium nuncupa- 

 tus : fecundum sefalo, tertium circus. Stellaris 

 autem, palumbarius, & pernix 3 differunt. Ap- 

 pellantur fubuteones, qui latiores 4 funt : alij 

 percae & fringillarij uocantur : alij laeues 5 & ru- 

 betarij, qui abunde uiuunt 6 , atque humiuole funt. 

 Genera non pauciora quam decem effe accipi- 

 trum aliqui prodiderunt, quae modo quoqj ue- 

 nandi 7 inter fe diffident. Alij enim columbam 

 humi confidentem, rapiunt, uolantem non appe- 

 tunt : alij fuper arborem, aut tale quid con- 

 fcendentem, uenantur : fin humi est, aut uolat, 

 [p. 1 6] non inuadunt. Alij neqj humi, neqj in fublimi 

 manente, adgrediutur, fed uolantem capere co- 

 nantur. Fertur etiam a columbis quodqj ac- 

 cipitru genus cognofci. Itaqj cum accipiter 

 prouolat, fi fublimipeta eft, manent quo confti- 

 terunt loco : fed fi humipeta qui prouolat, eft, 

 non manet, fed continue auolant. 



1 Hist. An. Bk IX. 128130. 



2 Aristotle has simply Kpana-ros p.ev 6 rpiopx^s. 



3 Other readings are TTTfpvls, Trepvrjs, irrtpvr^s. 



4 Instead of 7r\arvrepoi, some texts have TrXarvTrrepot, which 

 would make better sense and mean 'broad-winged.' 



6 Xfloi, or according to another text e'Xetoi. 



6 The word et^twraroi here, and corresponding expressions 

 throughout the passages quoted in this book, might possibly 

 mean that the birds in question have no particular faults, or are 

 of ordinary respectability. Gaza, however, followed as usual by 

 Turner, seems to have interpreted the word rightly here. 



7 These three words are not found in Aristotle. 



