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Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnaean works
Ἔλαφος, stag, Cervus Elaphus, 5, 26, 27, 28;
those called Achaïnæ, 39, 237;
blood, 58, 67;
horns, 60, 236, 237;
the female, 100;
coition, 103, 174;
voice, 112;
habits, 236, 237;
the castrated animal, 278;
rumination, _ib._
Ἐλέα, Emberiza arundinacea, or Turdus arundinaceus, _Strack_, or E.
schœnilus, 246.
Ἐλεγῖνος, a migratory fish, 234.
Ἐλεδώνη, Eledone cirhosa, _Leach_, (Owen, in Cyclopædia of
Anatomy), 76.
Ἐλειὸς, dormouse, Myoxus Avellanarius; or perhaps squirrel, Sciurus
vulgaris, lives in holes in trees, 216.
Ἔλειοι, a kind of hawk, 253; probably an incorrect reading.
Ἐλεὸς, an owl, Stryx Aluco, _Strack_, see Ἀείσκοψ, 201.
Ἐλέφας, Elephas Indicus, 5, 13, 14, 24, 26, 28, 29, 40, 43, 46, 61, 72;
voice, 96;
reproduction, 103, 115, 161, 173;
food, 207;
life and diseases, 222, 224;
strength, 234;
capture, _ib._;
habits, docility, 274.
Ἔλλοψ, a fish with four simple branchia, sword fish or sturgeon,
_Liddell and Scott_, Centriscus scolopax, _Strack_, Accipenser
stellatus, 37;
ἔλοψ, 40.
Ἕλμινς, worms, especially intestinal worms, tænia and lumbricus, some
exist in sponges, 119;
origin, 123;
three kinds, flat worms, round worms, ascarides, 124;
worms in snow, Podura nivalis, 126;
some insect larvæ are described as worms, 135;
small worms in eels, 158;
worms in dogs, Tænia sevrata, 238.
Ἐμπὶς, gnat, larger than κώνωψ, Tabanus, or Phryganea,
_Strack_, 3, 9, 206.
Εμὺς, Testudo coriacea, fresh-water tortoise, Emys lutraria, 39;
reproduction, 136;
habits, 194, 216.
Ἔντελις or ἔτελις, probably sea bream, Sparus, _Strack_, Sparus
Rayi, 153.
Ἔντερα γῆς, the decomposing matter in which eels have their
origin, 158.
Ἔντομα, insects, as a class, 3, 10, 73, 123.
Ἐνυδρίς, otter, Lutra vulgaris, 2;
its food, 205.
Ἐπιλαΐς or ὑπολαΐς, Sylvia curruca, _Strack_, or perhaps hedge
sparrow, 202.
Ἔποψ, hoopoe, Upupa Epops, 1;
its nest, 138;
lives in woods and mountains, 244;
changes its colour, 246, 276.
Ἐρέβινθος, a plant, leguminous seeds, Ervum sativum, 221.
Ἐρίθακη, bee bread, 267.
Ἐρίθακος, Sylvia erithacus, or S. Phœnicurus, _Strack_,
Redstart, 202;
in its summer plumage called Phœnicurus, 276.
Ἐρινεὸς, wild fig tree, 136.
Ἕρπυλλος, Thymus serpyllum, wild thyme, 261.
Ἐρυθρῖνος, a red kind of mullet, Perea marina, Sparus Erythrymus,
_Strack_, Perea scriba, all have roes, there are no males, 99,
153, 211.
Ἐρωδιὸς, heron, Ardea major, 203;
a foe to the woodpecker, 212;
three kinds, ὁ πέλλος, the black, Ardea cinerea, ὁ λευκος, the
white, A. egretta, ὁ ἀστεριας, A. stellaris, 233, 247;
a friend of the crow, 323.
Εὐλαὶ, maggots in flesh.
Ἐφήμερον, ephemera, insect, 10, 126.
Ἐχενηΐς, probably Goby or Blenny, _Forbes in Spratt's Lycia_, not the
Remora, which was unknown to the ancients. Echeneis remora,
_Strack_, 38.
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