INDEX.
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Aristotle and Cresswell, Richard
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Ἄγνος, Vitex agnus castus, a tree like a willow, the branches of which the matrons strewed on their beds at the Thesmophoria, 266.
Ἀδριανικαὶ ἀλεκτορίδες, a small kind of domestic fowl, 138.
Ἀείσκωψ, a kind of owl. Stryx aluco, Strack, 249. Brown Owl. There is also another migratory kind mentioned, 249, which does not hoot.
Ἀέροψ, the Bœotian name of the Merops, M. apiaster, 138.
Ἀετὸς, or αἰετὸς, Eagle, hence the Latin avis, 9, 61;
its eggs and young, 146;
two species, the Pygargus haliætus, and the black eagle, Aquila anataria or Falco nævius, ib.;
several species, 201, 250;
used in augury, 217;
eats serpents, 231;
food and manners, 251;
true eagles, Falco chrysaetos, ib.;
the eagle kills the heron, 233;
it fights with the vulture and the swan, ib.;
a kind of eagle in Scythia, 252.
Ἀηδῶν, nightingale, Sylvia luscinia, its song, 95, 96;
reproduction, 108;
its tongue, 246;
changes its song and colour, 276.
Ἀθερίνη, Atherina presbyter, Spratt's Lycia, or A. vera, in modern Greek atherno, 159;
its reproduction, 160, 234.
Αἰγίθαλος, Parus, Tit or Titmouse, eats worms, 202;
three species, ib.;
lays many eggs, 246;
an enemy to bees, 265;
σπιξίτης, parus major, Strack. ὀρεινὸς, Parus ater, Strack, or P. caudatus. ἐλάχιστος, Parus cœruleus.
Αἴγιθος, Bunting, Emberiza, Strack, or hedge sparrow or Parus cœruleus, dislikes the ass, builds in hedges, 232;
hostile to the anthus and acanthis, 233;
its food and young, 246.
Αἰγοθήλας, goat sucker, Caprimulgus Europæus, 250.
Αἰγοκέφαλος, Stryx otus, Strack, 39.
Αἰγυπιὸς, the Vulture, it is hostile to the Æsalon (small hawk), 9, 23;
and fights with the eagle, ib.
Αἴγυπτος, Egypt, the Egyptians batch eggs in manure, 139;
two kinds of Egyptian mice, one with stiff hair (Hierax, or Aulacodus Swinderianus), another with long hind legs (Jerboa, or Cavia), 178;
the care of animals among the Egyptians, 231;
a large kind of oxen in Egypt, 226;
asp and ichneumon, 238;
white and black ibis, 242.