C COTTTEirTS. 



■hap ^*^ 



1. men the eagle was first used as the standard of the Eoman ^^^ 



legions . 



6. An eagle which precipitated itself in the funeral pUe of a girl.. 486 



7. The-mtnre • Aoj 



8. The birds called sangualis and immusulus *?' 



9. Hawks. Thebuteo ■• •• v " "1 '" 



10. In what places hawks and men pursue the chase in company 



with each other _.•• ••,.•• '; v.-lj 



11. The only bird that is kiUed by those of its own kind.— A bird 



that lays only one egg *°° 



12. Thekite *°" 



, 13. The classification of birds • • •.• "'■ 



14. Crows. Birds of ill omen. At what seasons they are not inauspi- 



cious *f- 



15. Theraven *l^ 



16. The homed owl • •, •,;• ,"' 



17. Birds, the race of which is extinct, or of which all knowledge has 



been lost '*• 



18. Birds which are born with the tail first < . . 493 



19. Theowlet 494 



20. The wood-pecker of Mars «'»• 



21. Birds which have hooked talons 495 



22. The peacock «*. 



23. Who was the first to kill the peacock for food. Who first taught 



the art of cramming them • 496 



24. The dunghill cock «*. 



• 25. How cocks are castrated. A cock that once spoke 498 



26. The goose iS. 



27. Who first taught us to use the liver of the goose for food . . . . 499 



28. The Commagenian medicament' 600 



29. The chenalopex, the cheneros, the tetrao, and the otis . . . . ii. 



30. Cranes 501 



31. Storks 502 



32. Swans ib. 



33. Foreign birds which visit us ; the quail, the glottis, the cychramus, 



and the otus 603 



34. Swallows 505 



35. Birds which take their departure from us, and whither they go ; 



the thrush, the blackbird, and the starling— birds which lose 

 their feathers during their retirement — the turtle-dove and the 



ring-dove — the flight of starlings and swallows ib. 



36. Birds which remain with us throughout the year ; birds which 



remain with us only six or three months ; whitwaUa and hoopoes 606 



37. The Memnonides jj. 



38. The Meleagrides ', , _ 507 



39. The Seleucides ' ib 



40. The ibis.. ]] .". "/. ■/. "■ _'" ,j| 



41. Places in which certain birds are never found " .'.' ib' 



42. The various kinds of birds which afford omens by" their no'te^ 



Birds which change their colour and their voice 509 



