BOOK I 



their kinds and habitat; sponges, hving creatures. 

 (Ixx) Sea-bitches. (Ixxi) Flint-shell fish ; marine 

 animals without senses ; other low species. (Ixxii) 

 Venomous marine animals. (Ixxiii) Diseases of fishes. 

 (Ixxiv-vii) Their reproduction — curious reproductive 

 methods ; species both oviparous and viviparous ; 

 deUvery by rupture of the stomach, afterwards 

 closing up ; species possessing matrix ; self-fertiHzing 

 species. (Ixxviii) Longest Ufe of fish. (Ixxix-lxxxi) 

 First inventor of fish-ponds ; oysters ; who invented 

 lamprey-ponds. Notable fish-ponds ; who first in- 

 vented snail-ponds. (Ixxxiii) Land fishes. (Ixxxiv) 

 Mouse-fish in the Nile. (Ixxxv) Flower-fish, mode 

 of catching. (Ixxxvi) Starfish. (Ixxxvii) Remarkable 

 species of finger-fish. (Ixxxvlii) Instances of hostiUty 

 and friendship between aquatic animals. — Total: 

 650 facts, investigations and observations. 



Authorities : Turranius GraciUs, Trogus, Maecenas, 

 Alfius Flavus, CorneUus Nepos, the Mivies of Laberius, 

 Fabianus, Fenestella, Mucianus, AeUus Stilo, Sebosus, 

 MeUssus, Seneca, Cicero, AemiUus Macer, Corvinus 

 Messala, Trebius Niger, Nigidius. Foreign authori- 

 ties : Aristotle, King Archelaus, CalUmachus, 

 Democritus, Theophrastus, ThrasyUus, Hegesidemus, 

 Sudines, Alexander the Learned. 



Book X. Subject — the nature of birds. (i f.) The 

 ostrich, the phoenix. (iii-vi) Eagles, their species; 

 their nature ; when adopted as regimental badges ; 

 self-immolation of eagle on maiden's funeral pyre. 

 (vii) The vulture. (viii) Lammergeier, sea-eagle (?) 

 (ix-xi) Hawks : the buzzard ; use of hawks by fowlers 

 where practised ; the oiily bird that is kiUed by its 

 owu kind ; what bird produces one egg at a time. (xii) 



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