INDEX. (continued 2)
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Aristotle and Cresswell, Richard
Source notes
[1] Beaver, Castor fiber.
[2] Medusa, or perhaps Actinia, or both.
[3] Under the class ἔντομα are probably included all annulose animals.
[4] Some words appear to be lost in this place.
[5] Tabanus, gad-fly.
[6] Perhaps some species of Zoophyte.
[7] Cephalopods.
[8] Perhaps Sand martin.
[9] Swift.
[10] Some migratory fish.
[11] A kind of tunny, still called palamyde at Marseilles.
[12] A kind of tunny, Les Bonitons (Camus.)
[13] The words in brackets should probably be excluded from the text.
[14] Fibres and serum, as compared with veins and blood, refer to the circulation in animals without red blood.
[15] Palinurus, Spiny Lobster.
[16] Cartilaginous fishes.
[17] Squalus galeus.
[18] Raia batos.
[19] Sparus auratus.
[20] Perca labrax.
[21] Lophius piscatorius and also L. barbatus.
[22] Silurus glanis, L. (Strack).
[23] Probably some kind of flying squirrel.
[24] Herodotus, ii. 76; "the form of this serpent is similar to that of the water-snake; its wings are not feathered, but like those of bats:" the draco volans may have given rise to this story.
[25] The Echinidæ.
[26] Animals with long hair on their tails.
[27] Ginnus is the offspring of a mule and mare. Book vi. 24, 1.
[28] Hemionus, perhaps the foal of a horse and wild ass, and so distinct from oreus, the foal of the he-ass and mare.
[29] This mistake is again repeated in Ch. xiii.
[30] Eustachian tube.
[31] Perhaps Nylghau (Liddel and Scott's Lexicon), or some large kind of Stag.
[32] Cameleopard. (Schneider.)
[33] Gazelle or antelope, so named from the brightness of its eyes.
[34] Antelope Oryx.
[35] Coa, the highest throw with the Astragalus with the convex side uppermost, opposed to Chia, the lowest throw, sixes and aces.
[36] Simia rostrata, or perhaps baboon. (The identifications of the animals, unless otherwise noted, are taken from the German translation by Strack, 1816.)
[37] Jynx torquilla, wry-neck.
[38] Fringilla, finch.
[39] Perhaps Corvus galgulus.
[40] Mugil, mullet.