CONTENTS. XX 



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43. The Dightingale 509 



44. The melancoryplius, the eritliacus, and the phoenicurus .. .. 611 



45. The cenanthe, the chlorior, the blackhird, and the ibis . . . . ib. 



46. The times of incubation of birds 512 



47. The halcyones : the halcyon days that are favourable to navigation ib. 



48. Other kinds of aquatic birds 513 



49. The instinctive cleverness displayed by birds in th£ construction 



of their nests. The wonderful works of the swallow. The 



tank-swallow ib. 



60. The acanthyllis and other birds 515 



51. The merops — partridges 516 



62. Pigeons 617 



63. Wonderful things done by them ; prices at which they have been 



sold 519 



54. Different modes of flight and progression in birds 520 



66. The birds caUed apodes or cypseli 621 



66. fiespecting the food of birds — the caprimulgus, the platea. . . . ib. 



57. The instincts of birds — the cardueUs, the taurus, the anthus . . 522 



58. Birds which speak — the parrot ib. 



69. The pie which feeds on acorns 623 



60. A sedition that arose among the Bomau people, in consequence of 



a raven speaking 524 



61. The birds of Diomedes .. 526 



62. Animals that can learn nothing ib. 



63. The mode of drinking with birds. The porphyrio 527 



64. The hsematopous ib. 



65. The food of birds ib. 



66. The pelican ' ib. 



67. Foreign birds : the phalerides, the pheasant, and the numidicse. . 528 



68. The phoenicopterus, the attagen, the phalacrocorax, the pyrrhooo- 



rax, and the lagopus .- ib. 



69. The new birds. The vipio 529 



70. Fabuloiis birds 630 



71. Who first invented the art of cramming poultry ; why the first 



Censors forbade this practice 531 



72. Who first invented aviaries. The dish of -Ssopus ib. 



73. The generation of birds : other oviparous animals 532 



74. The various kinds of eggs, and their nature ib, 



75. Defects in brood-hens, and their remedies 636 



76. An augurv derived from eggs by an empress ib. 



77. The best kinds of fowls 536 



78. The diseases of fowls, and their remedies 637 



79. When birds lay, and how many eggs. The various kinds of herons ib. 



80. What eggs are called hypenemia, and what cynosura. How 



eggs ars best kept 580 



81. The only winged animal that is viviparous, and nurtures its young 



with its muk 540 



82. Terrestrial animals that are oviparous. Various kinds of serpents ib. 



83. Greneration of all kinds of terrestrial animals ib. 



84. The position of animals in the uterus 544 



