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741a 



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 741 b ev TO) Tcov i)(dvcov yevet eoTiv, olov at r' iyx^Xeis 



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^ avev oxeias addit P. * <evta> Hackforth. 



" See 750 b 3 if., 757 biff., also 730 a 5 ff . and H.A. 

 539 b 1. 



*" Probably some species of Serranus, perhaps S. anthias 

 (a sea-perch). Cf. H.A. 538 a 21, 567 a 27. Actually the 

 majority of species of Serranus are hermaphrodite (see E. S. 

 Goodrich, Cyclostomes and Fishes, 430), as was discovered 

 by Cavolini in the latter part of the 18th cent. See A.-W., 

 Introduction, pp. 32 ff. 



" i.e., roe. 



"* Eels do not develop generative organs except in deep 

 water, whither they go in order to breed. This is taken to 



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