IN THE TENTH BOOK 



ARE CONTAINED THE 



NATURE AND HISTORY OF FLYING CREATURES. 



CHA 

 1. 



a. 



3. 



4. 



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8. 

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10. 

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13. 

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20. 

 21. 



The Nature of Birds. 



Of the Phoenix. 



Of Eagles. 



When the Roman Legions 



began the Standard of the 



Eagle, and other Ensigns. 



Also with what Creatures 



Eagles maintain fight. 

 A wonderful Case of an 



Eagle. 



Of Vultures. 

 Of the Bird Sangualis. 

 Of Falcons and Hawks. 

 Of the Cuckoo, which is killed 



by Birds of its own Kind. 

 Of Kites. 

 A Division of Birds into their 



Kinds. 

 Of unlucky or ominous Birds, 



the Crow, the Raven, and the 



Owl (Bubo). 



Of the Bird that carrieth Fire. 

 Of the Bird Clivina. 

 Of many Birds unknown. 

 Of Birds that fly by Night. 

 Of Owlets. 

 Of the Woodpecker. 

 Of Birds which have Claws 



and crooked Talons. 

 Of Peacocks : and who first 



killed them for the Table. 

 Of Cocks : how they are cas- 

 trated : of a Dunghill Cock 



that spoke. 



CHAP. 



22. Of Geese : who first devised a 



Dish of the Goose-liver : the 

 Fat of Geese, called Coma- 

 genum. 



23. Of Cranes, Storks, Swans, 



strange Birds of foreign 

 Countries; of Quails, and 

 the Bird Glottis. 



24. Of Swallows and Martins, 



of Blackbirds, Thrushes, of 

 Starlings, Turtle-doves and 

 Ring-doves. 



25. Of Birds that tarry with us all 



the Year ; of Birds that con- 

 tinue half a Year only, and 

 others that remain but three 

 Months. 



26. Strange Stories of Birds. 



27. Of the Birds called Seleucides. 



28. Of the Ibis. 



29. What Birds will not abide in 



some Places : which they are 

 that change Colour and 

 Voice: also of Nightingales. 



30. Of Merls. 



31. The Time wherein Birds breed. 



32. Of the Birds Halcyons, the 



navigable Days they show : 

 of the Gaviae and Mergi. 



33. The Subtlety of Birds in 



building their Nests : of the 

 common Swallow, the River 

 Martin, Argatilis : the Birds 

 Cinnamologi, and Partridges. 



