arundinacea, 245.
Συναγρὶς, a fish, Sparus dentex, 37, 40.
Συρία πόα, a plant loved by bees, 268.
Σῦς, swine, Sus scropha, no wild swine in Libya, 225; the domestic pig eats snails, 255.
Σφαῖραι θαλάττιαι, a species of zoophyte, perhaps Alcyonia, 246.
Σφήξ, wasp, Vespa vulgaris, V. tectorum, V. crabro, generic name, 3, 4, 88, 89; larva, 124; a kind called ichneumon, Ammophila sabulosa, 127, 130; a diligent insect, 258; the annual wasp, 260; hostile to bees, 265, 267; two species, 268.
Σφύραινα, a gregarious sea-fish, Esox sphyræna, 234.
Σχοίνικλος or σχοινίων, a water-bird, Emberiza Schœniclus L.
Σχοινίων, Sylvia arundinacea, 234.
Τ Ταινία, a long thin fish, probably Cepola tænia, _Strack_, 37.
Ταινίαι πλατείαι, flat entozoa, 238.
Ταπύνος, see τύμπανος.
Ταῦρος, bull, Bos taurus, 48, 67, 68, 168; horns, 100; fierce in the breeding season, 161; bulls fight together, 163.
Ταὼς, peacock, Pavo cristatus, 6; barren eggs, reproduction, 140, 148.
Τενθρηδὼν, a kind of bee or wasp, Apis terrestris, _Strack_, makes honey, 260; reproduction, 271.
Τερηδὼν, a caterpillar in bee-hives, 225.
Τέτριξ, a species of grouse, Tetrac tetrix, or Otis tetrix, _Strack_, 138, 139.
Τεττιγομήτρα, the edible larva of the locust or grasshopper, 134.
Τεττιγόνιον, a small kind of grasshopper, 90, 133.
Τέττιξ, grasshopper, Cicada orni, 90; several kinds, 95; origin, 123; reproduction, 133; Cecropis Spumarius, 134; changes its skin, 216; not found in Milesia and Cephalenia, 225.
food, 177; its ink, 257.
perhaps incorrectly in 234 as the name of a gregarious fish.
Τήθυα, Ascidian mollusks, Ascidia phlusa, _Strack_, 82, 87, 94, 117; fleshy nature of their body, 195.
Τίγρις, Tiger, Felis tigris, the Indian dogs are said to be crossed with the tiger, 227.
Τίλλων, a fresh-water fish, Cyprinus brama, 156, 220.
Τίφαι, grass or straw used as food for swine, Secale, 221.
Τράγος, the male of the fish mænis, Sparus Maina, _Strack_, 228.
Τρίγλη, Red mullet, _Spratt's Lycia_, Mullus surculentus, _Strack_, 44, 108; suffers from parasites, 135; season of reproduction, 159; can bury itself, 200; lives near the land, 211; in estuaries, _ib._; not carnivorous, 256; in season in the autumn, 257.
Τριόρχης, Buzzard, Buteo vulgaris, 201; eats toads and serpents, 232; the first genus of the hawks, 253.
Τριχὰς, Fieldfare or thrush, Turdus trichias, _Strack_, T.
pilaris, 248.
Τριχίας or τριχὶς, a small kind of fish, or spawn, Clupea Sprattus, 108, 158, 212.
Τροχίλος, Sylvia trochilus, _Strack_, also called Presbys, and Basileus, perhaps the wren, Sylvia troglodytes, S. regulus, 203, 233; also a bird living by the sea, charadrius Egyptiacus, 203; picks the teeth of the crocodile, 238; hates the eagle, 232.
Τρύγγας, perhaps Tringa ochropodes, _Schneider_, T. vanellus, 203, 244.
Τρυγὼν, Turtle dove, Columba turtur, the smallest of the dove tribe, 111; young and eggs, 138, 145, 240; food, 202; migrates, 210; hybernates, 215; an enemy to the pyrallis, but killed by the chloreus, 232; friendly with the cottyphus, 234; life, 240; habitation, _ib._; perhaps Psophila crepitans, or Rallus crex, 277.
method of taking its prey, 255.
Τρυγὼν, some oviparous quadruped, 103.
Τύραννος, golden-crested wren, Motacilla Regulus, 202.
Τυφλίνης, blind worm, Lacerta Apus, _Schneider_, 154, 223.
Υ Ὕαινα, Hyæna Striata, 176; also called γλάνος, 204.
Ὑβρὶς, a night bird of prey, 244.
Ὑπαίετος, a kind of eagle, also written γυπαίετος, 252.
Ὕπερα, a kind of caterpillar, Geometra, 124.
Ὑπολαΐς, hedge sparrow, Sylvia hortensis or curruca, 147, 202, 249.
Ὑποτριόρχης, buzzard, 253, see τριόρχης.
Ὕς, swine, Sus scropha, 26; with single hoof in Pœonia, 27, 29; boar, 31, 32; heats, 69; voice, 96; sow, is without tusks, 100; domestic swine, 164; μετάχοιρα, 173; they dig up the runs of mice, 178; eat roots, 206; how fattened, _ib._; diseases, 221; swine in Mount Athos, 227; killed by scorpions, _ib._; devour serpents, 233; gelding of sows, 278.
Ὓς ἄγριος, the wild boar, 5, 26, 161, 174.
Ὕστριξ, porcupine, Hystrix cristata, 138; compared with the bear, 175; hybernates, 215; throws out its quills, 260.
Φ Φαβοτύπος, a kind of hawk, Falco palumbarius, 201.
Φαλάγγιον, a kind of spider, Phalangium, Aranea Tarantula, 100, 107, 121, 123; reproduction, 132; patient of hunger, 204; hostile to the ichneumon, 232; several kinds described, 258, 259.
Φάλαγξ, a spider, 231.
Φάλαινα, whale, Physeter Chacalotus, _Strack_, P. macrocephalus, 8, 69, 152; respiration, 196.
Φαλαρὶς, coot, Fulica atra, 203.
Φαληρικὴ ἀφύη, some kind of spawn, 158.
Φασιανὸς, pheasant, Phasianus Colchicus, 134, 139, 277.
Φασσοφόνος, a hawk, probably the same as φαβοτύπος, 253.
Φάττα, a kind of pigeon, Columba palumbus, 45, 47; the largest of the pigeon kind, 111; migrates, 210; sometimes hybernates, 215; likes drought, 217; mode of drinking, 240; habits, _ib._; does not coo in winter, 276.
Φὰψ, a kind of dove, Columba livia, the male and female incubate by nest, 249.
Φήνη, perhaps the osprey, Vultur ossifragus, Buffon, nurses the young of the eagle, 146; its food and shape, 201, 251.
Φθείρ, louse, Pediculus capitis and P. pubis, κόνις, nit, 120, 134; in birds, _ib._; in fish, Lernea, 97, 135; in the fish chalcis, 220.
Φθείρα, a fish that follows the dolphin, Centronotus, 135.
Φλέως, a water plant, Poterium spinosum, 266.
Φοινοκούρος, redstart, Sylvia Phœnicurus, 276; in winter called ἐρίθακος.
Φοξῖνος, a river fish, Cyprinus phoxinus, _Strack_, 153, 155.
Φρύνη, toad, Bufo vulgaris, 39, 87; eaten by the buzzard, 232; injurious to bees, 265.
Φρυνολόχος, a kind of hawk, perhaps the buzzard, 253.
Φυκὶς, a fish living on sea-weed, Gobius niger, 154; food, 200; changes its colour, and is the only fish that makes nests, 228.
Φώκαινα, porpoise, Delphinus Phocæna, 152, 212.
Φωλὶς, a fish enclosing itself in mucus, 256; Blennius pholis, _Strack_.
Φὼρ, a kind of bee, the thief, 259.
Χ Χάλαξα, Hydatids in swine, 221.
Χαλκεὺς, a fish, Dory, Zeus Faber, _Strack_, 95.
Χαλκὶς, a lizard, with a bright stripe on its back, Lacerta chalcides, 223.
Χαλκὶς, a bird, the same as κύμινδις, Stryx flammea, _Strack_, 244.
Χαλκὶς, a fish, perhaps Mugil auratus, _Spratt's Lycia_, Clupea Χαλκῖτις λίθος, lime stone, 126.
Χάννη, or χάνη, a fish with a wide mouth, Perca cabrilla, 99, 153; food, 199; marine, 211.
Χαραδριὸς, lapwing or curlew, Charadrius œdicnemus, _Schneider_, 203, 243.
Χελιδὼν, swallow, Hirundo urbica and rustica, 4, 40, 45, 64; eat animal food, 202; migration, 215; kill bees, 265.
Χελιδὼν, flying fish, 95; Exocetus volitans.
Χέδροπες, leguminous plants, 205.
Χέλων, or χάλλων, a fish like the cestreus, 109, 159, 199.
Χελώνη, the river tortoise, Testudo orbicularis and Europæa, 34, 39, marine, Chelonia cephalo, 196; lives on shell-fish and sea-weed, 198; does not change its skin, 216, 238.
Χήμη, a large bivalve shell, Chama, 117.
Χὴν, goose, Anser domesticus and Anas segetum, 6, 27, 45, 47; gosling, 140, 141; different kinds, 203, 210.
Χηναλώπηξ, an Egyptian goose, Anas tadorna, _Strack_, 140, 203.
Χίμαιρα, probably the she goat, 72.
Χλωρεὺς, perhaps the same as χλωρίων, a foe to the woodpecker, and kills the turtle dove, Falco lanarius, 232.
Χλωρὶς, Motacilla fitis, or Loxia chloris, _Strack_, eats worms, 202; shape, eggs, nest, 245, 249.
Χλωρίων, perhaps oriole, Oriolus galbula, _Strack_, attacks the Χοιροπίθηκος, ape, Simia rostrata, S. porcaria, 34.
Χρὲμψ, a fish joined with labrax, 92.
Χρυσομήτρις, a bird (thistle finch), Fringilla serinus, 202.
Χρύσοφρυς, Sparus aurata L., 8, 44; sleeps, 98; food, 200; near the shore, 211; in estuaries, _ib._; hybernates, 214; impatient of cold, 218.
Χύμινδις, the same as χαλκις, 244.
Χυτοὶ, fish that swim in shoals, 109.
Ψ Ψάρος, starling, Sturnus vulgaris, 215, 249.
Ψὴν, gall insect, Cynips psenes, 136.
Ψήττα, a flat fish, Pleuronectes lingua and Rhombus, and maxima, 99, 109, 255.
Ψιττάκη, Parrot, Psittacus erithacus, 211.
Ψύλλα, flea, Pulex irritans, 134; a kind of spider, Salticus scenicus, 259.
Ψύλλος, parasites on fish, Talitrus locusta, 97.
Ψυχὴ, butterfly, Papilio, 89, 102, 123.
Ω Ὠτὶς, bustard, Otis tarda, 45, 102; Ὠτὸς, horned owl, Strix otus, 210, 252.
Ὦχροι, a kind of pulse, useful to bees, Pisum sativum, 268.
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