Βοῦς, Bos taurus, Ox, 5, 27, 28, 29, 30, 41, 62; milk, 69; dreams, 97; lowing of the bull, 100, 112; coition, 103; tormented with lice, 135; sexual desires, 161, 162; discharges and urine of the cow, 163; reproductive powers of bull, 168; the castrated animal is taught to lead the herd, _ib._; teeth, milk, and habits, _ib._; veins in the embryo, 190; mode of drinking, 205; care of the ox, 206; red cattle of Epirus, 207; diseases, 219, 222; the ox drinks pure water, 224; Egyptian oxen, 226; habits, 236; wild oxen, B. Bubalus, 26; one species of ox has a bone in its heart, 39; oxen in Phrygia which can move their horns, 61; small oxen in Phasis, 71; oxen in Epirus, _ib._; in Tortona, 72; the cow brings forth at a year old, 113; Syrian oxen, 226; castration of the young, 278; rumination, _ib._ Βοῦς, a cartilaginous fish, Raia cornuta, 104, 152. Βρένθος, a sea-bird, Anas tadorna, hostile to the larus and harpa, 232; makes its nest in hills and woody places, 244. Βρύας, a large owl, Stryx bubo, 201. Βρύον, algæ, both fresh-water and marine, 155, 200, 220. Βρύσσος, an echinite, Scutella, 102. Βωμολόχος, Corvus monedula, 248 Βὼξ, a gregarious fish, Sparus boops, 234; contracted from Βόαξ, from the sound it makes. Γ Γαλας, a kind of smooth shell-fish, mya pictorum, 82. Γαλεὸς, a cartilaginous fish, Squalus galeus and charachias, _Strack_, or Gadus lota, 8, 44, 49, 108, 149, 151; uterus and ova, 150; receives its young into itself, _ib._; not found in the Pyrrhæan Euripus, 256. Γαλεώδη, fish of the shark kind, 37, 40, 41; placed under the selache, 104, 149; the males have appendages, 104; the uterus, 149; galei and galeodes, 151. Γαλῆ, weasel, martin, polecat, Mustela Faro, M. Erminea, M. vulgaris, 20; the wild kind hunts mice, 178; hostile to the crow, 232; it attacks serpents, 233; in Poroselene, 225; it fights with serpents, especially with those called myotheræ, 238; its form compared with the ictis, 239; eats birds' eggs, 232; mode of attacking its prey, 238. Γέρανος, crane, Ardea grus, 2, 4, 64; coition, 102; migrations of the male bird, 209; they migrate after the quails, _ib._; the fable of the stone they are said to carry, 210; gregarious, _ib._; migrations, leaders, prudence, 243; they fight with each other, the number of their eggs, 245. Γίννος, the offspring of a mule with a mare or she ass, 11; see ἵννος. Γλανὶς, a fresh-water fish, Silurus glanis, _Strack_, 9, 38, 40, 219; conjoined spawn, 155: two species, the greater and the smaller, the male watches the spawn, _ib._; size of the ova, 156; diseases, 219; unfit to eat when in spawn, the female better than the male, 229; the male watches the young, breaks the hook with its teeth, 256.