BOOK I 



colour — ^reindeer, lycaon, jackall (liii) The porcupine, 

 (liv) Bears ; their reproduction. (Iv-viii) Mice, 

 Black Sea and Alpine ; Hedgehogs, lion-killer, lynxes, 

 badgers, squirrels. (lix f.) Snails ; lizards. (Ix-lxiii). 

 Dogs, nature of; instances of relation to masters; 

 nations that have kept dogs of war ; dog-breeding ; 

 cures for rabies. (Ixiv-vii) Nature of horses — equine 

 psychology ; remarkable four-in-hands ; horse- 

 breeding ; cases of conception by wind. (Ixviii) 

 Asses ; breeding in their case. (Ixix) Nature of mules 

 and other draft-animals. (Ixx f.) Oxen, breeding of. 

 Apis in Egypt. (Ixxii-v) Nature of sheep — their 

 breeding ; kinds of wool and of colours ; kinds of cloth. 

 (Ixxvi f.) Goats, their nature and breeding ; swine, 

 ditto. (Ixxviii f.) Wild pigs. Who originated men- 

 ageries } (Ixxx-ii) Apes. Hares, their kinds. Half- 

 wild animals. (Ixxxiii) What animals do not occur 

 in what places ? which in what places harm only 

 strangers ? which in what places only natives ? — 

 Total : 787 facts, investigations and observations. 

 Authorities : Mucianus, ProciUus, Verrius Flaccus, 

 Lucius Piso, CorneUus Valerianus, Cato the ex-Censor, 

 Fenestella, Trogus, Ojjicial Records, ColumeUa, Virgil, 

 Varro, Lucilius, Metellus Scipio, CorneUus Celsus, 

 Nigidius, Trebius Niger, Pomponius Mela, MamiUus 

 Sura. Foreign authorities : King Juba, Polybius, 

 Herodotus, Antipater, Aristotle, Demetrius's Natural 

 History, Democritus, Theophrastus, Euanthes, 

 Scopas's Olympic Victors, King Hiero, King Attalus, 

 King Philometor, Ctesias, Duris, PhiUsto, Archytas, 

 Phylarchus, Amphilochus of Athens, AnaxipoUs of 

 Thasos, Apollodorus of Lemnos, Aristophanes of 

 Miletus, Antigonus of Cumae, Agathocles of Chios, 



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