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can be bent with boiling wax, and they can be sUt 

 at birth and twisted in opposite direetions, so as to 

 produce four horns on one head. 



The feniales usually have thinner horns, as is the Disinbution 

 case with many in the cattle class, but the fem:\\es stnccture 0/ 

 of sheep and of stags have none, nor have those of the '"'"*•'• 

 animals with cloven hooves, nor any of those with 

 solid hooves except the Indian ass that is anned with 

 a single horn. Nature has bestowed two horns on the 

 Idnds with cloven hooves, but on no kind having 

 front teeth in the upper jaw: but those who think 

 that the material to form upper teeth is entirely 

 used up in horns are easily refuted by the nature of 

 does, which have no teeth that stags have not also 

 and nevertheless have no horns. The horns of all 

 other kinds are attached to the bones, but those of 

 stags alone grow out of the hide. 



XLVI. The heads of fishes are very hirge in pro- Headsoj 

 portion to their bodies, perhaps so as to enable them **' 

 to dive. The shell-fish kind have no heads, nor have 

 sponges nor virtually any of the other creatures 

 which only possess the sense of touch. Some kinds, 

 for instance crabs, have the head not separated from 

 the body. 



XLVII. Of all the animals man has most hair^^^j- 

 on the head : indeed this is the case indiscriminately tn man. 

 with males and females, at all events with the races 

 that do not cut the hair ; and the Longhair tribes of 

 the Alps and GalUa Comata have actuaUy derived 

 their names from this, though nevertheless there is 

 in this respect some difference between countries : in 

 fact the people of Mykoni are born devoid of hair, 

 Uke the persons with an affection of the spleen at 

 Caunus. (Also some kinds of animals are bald by 



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