BOOK I 



Apollonius of Pergamum, Aristander of Athens, 

 Bacchius of Miletus, Bio of SoH, Chaeareas of Athens, 

 Diodorus of Priene, Dio of Colophon, Epigenes of 

 Rhodes, Euagon of Thasos, Euphronius of Athens, 

 Hegesias of Maronea, Menander of Priene and 

 Menander of Heraclea, the poet Menecrates, Andro- 

 tion On Agriculture, Aeschrion diito, Lysimachus 

 ditto, Dionysius's translation of Mago, Diophanes's 

 summary of Dionysius, King Archelaus, Nicander. 



Book IX. Subject — the nature of aquatic animals. 

 (i) Extreme size of marine animals, reason for. (ii) 

 Monsters of the Indian Sea. (iii) Which are the largest 

 in each Ocean ? (iv) Tritons and Nereids, shapes of. 

 Sea elephants, shapes of. (v) Whales, grampuses. 

 (vi) Do fishes breathe ? do they sleep 1 (vii-x) 

 Dolphins, persons loved by ; places where they fish in 

 partnership with men ; other curious facts as to. 

 (xi) Porpoises. (xii f.) Tortoises — kinds of water- 

 tortoise ; mode of capture ; who invented cutting 

 tortoise-shells (xiv) Aquatic animals arranged by 

 species. (xv) Sea-calves or seals — which species are 

 hairless? mode of reproduction. (xvi) How many 

 kinds of fish ? (xvii-xix). The largest fishes ; 

 tunny-fry, young tunny, fuU-grown tunny ; tunny 

 divided and pickled, salted tunny shces, chopped 

 tunny ; amia-tunny, mackerel-tunny. (xx) Fishes 

 in the Black Sea — which species not found in it, 

 which enter in from elsewhere, which leave it. (xxi) 

 Why fishes leap out of the water. The sword-fish. 

 (xxii) Augury from fishes a fact. (xxiii-v) Species of 

 fish that have no males ; that have a stone in the 

 head ; that hibernate in winter ; that are only caught 

 on certain days in winter; that hide in summer; 

 that are Hable to planet-stroke. (xxvi-xxx) MuUet, 



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