[p- 15] De decern generibus Accipitrum. 



Aristoteles^- 



Buteo. \ CCIPITRUM genus praecipuum Buteo 



J~\_ eft, Triorcha^ a numero' teftium nuncupa- 

 Aefaio. tus : fecundum aefalo, tertium circus. Stellaris 

 Circus. autem, palumbarius, & pernix' differunt. Ap- 

 pellantur fubuteones, qui latiores' funt : alij 

 Percae percae & fringillarij uocantur : alij laeues^ & ru- 



FringiUanj. betarij, qui abunde uiuunt', atque humiuole funt. 

 Lrenera non pauciora quam decern elle accipi- 

 trum aliqui prodiderunt, quae modo quoqs ue- 

 nandi' inter fe diffident. Alij enim columbam 

 humi confidentem, raplunt, uolantem non appe- 

 tunt : alij fuper arborem, aut tale quid con- 

 fcendentem, uenantur : fin humi est, aut uolat, 

 [p. 16] non inuadunt. Alij neqj humi, neqj in fublimi 

 manente, adgrediutur, fed uolantem capere co- 

 nantur. Fertur etiam a columbis quodqs ac- 

 cipitru genus cognofci. Itaqj cum accipiter 

 prouolat, fi fublimipeta eft, manent quo confti- 

 terunt loco : fed fi humipeta qui prouolat, eft, 

 non manet, fed continue auolant. 



1 ffz'si. An. Bk ix. 128 — 130. 



^ Aristotle has simply Kpana-ros jiiv 6 rptopxris. 



' Other readings are irTepv):, nipvrfs, iTTepvrfs. 



* Instead of nKarvrepoi, some texts have TrXarinTepoi, which 

 would make better sense and mean ' broad-winged.' 



^ Xfioi, or according to another text e'Xftoi. 



^ The word €ii/3i(0Taroi here, and corresponding expressions 

 throughout the passages quoted in this book, might possibly 

 mean that the birds in question have no particular faults, or are 

 of ordinary respectability. Gaza, however, followed as usual by 

 Turner, seems to have interpreted the word rightly here. 



' These three words are not found in Aristotle. 



