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ridges," fiery of eye and speckled of neck, make pact 

 of friendship with the Gazelles * in the vales and are 

 famiUar with them and dwell ^\■ith them and have 

 their nests near them and do not range apart from 

 them. Verily it may well be that afterward they 

 reap bitter fruit of their companionship and laughter- 

 less profit of their friendship, when guileful men 

 contrive a cunning dcNice against the hapless crea- 

 tures, setting the Partridges to decoy their friends 

 the Gazelles and, in turn, setting the Gazelles in hke 

 manner to decoy their comrades the Partridges. 



Again there are the "wild tribes of Goats and 

 Sheep. These are not much larger than our Sheep 

 and shagg}- Goats, but they are swift to run and 

 strong to fight, armed as their heads are with twisted 

 horns. The strength, moreover, of the Sheep hes in 

 their terrible foreheads. Many a time in the woods 

 they charge and lay rushing Boars wTithing on the 

 ground. Sometimes also they rush upon one another 

 and do battle, and a mighty din reaches unto heaven. 

 And it is not lawful for them to shun the foe, but 

 unshakable constraint is upon them either to win 

 the victory one over another or to he dead : such 

 strife arises between them. 



And wild Goats have a slender channel for the 

 breath •= right through the teeth between the horns, 



legged Partridge in plumage . . . but much larger " (Tristr. 

 p. 225). Perdir cinerea is found in Epirus and Macedonia, 

 3lomnis. p. -261. 



"" The friendship of Partridge and Deer is mentioned Dion. 

 Lie ai: i. 9. 



' A. 492a ll 'AXKfiaiuv ovk aXriOrj \ey€i, (pdfievoi dvairveii' rds 

 alyas Kara rd ura [quoted G. White, 3". //. of Selhorne, Letter 

 xiv.] ; Plin. viii. -20-2 auribus eas spirare, non naribus, 

 Archelaus auctor est. Cf. Ael. i. 53 ; \^arro ii. 3. 5. 



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