X CONTENTS. 
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5. When the eagle was first used as the standard of the Eoman 
legions 485 
6. An eagle which precipitated itself on the funeral pile of a girl. . 486 
7. The vulture ib. 
8. The hirds called sangualis and immusulus 487 
9. Hawks. The buteo ib. 
10. In what places hawks and men pursue the chase in company 
with eacli other 488 
11. The only bird that is killed by those of its own kind. — A bird 
that lays only one egg 489 
12. The kite 490 
13. The classification of birds ib. 
14. Crows. Birds of ill omen. At what seasons they are not inauspi- 
cious ib. 
15. The raven 491 
16. The horned owl 4^2 
17. Birds, the race of which is^extinct, or of which all knowledge has 
been lost ib. 
18. Birds which are born with the tail first 493 
19. The owlet 494 
20. The wood-pecker of Mars ib. 
21. Birds which have hooked talons 495 
22. The peacock ib. 
23. Who was the first to kill the peacock for food. Who first taught 
the art of cramming them . . .... . . 496 
24. The dunghill cock ib. 
25. How cocks are castrated. A cock that once spoke 498 
26. The goose ib, 
27. Who first taught us to use the liver of the goose for food . . . . 499 
28. The Commagenian medicament 500 
29. The chenalopex, the cheneros, the tetrao, and the otis . . . . ib. 
30. Cranes 501 
31. Storks 502 
32. Swans ib, 
33. Foreign birds which visit us ; the quail, the glottis, the cychramus, 
and the otus 503 
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 ; whitwalls and hoopoes 506 
37. The Memnonides ib. 
38. The Meleagrides 507 
39. The Seleucides ib, 
40. The ibis ib. 
41. Places in which certain birds are never found ib. 
42. The various kinds of birds which afl'ord omens by their note. 
Birds which change their colour and their voice 509 
