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Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnaean works
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.
Τευθὶς, Loligo vulgaris, _Owen_, 9, 10, 74, 75;
reproduction, 105, 123;
food, 177;
its ink, 257.
Τεῦθος, Loligo media, 10, 74, 75, 123;
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 he-goat, voice, 96, 161, 175.
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;
gregarious, _ib._, 234;
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.
Τρυγὼν, a sea-fish, Raia pastinaca, 8, 104, 149, 211;
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.
Ὕδρος, a water-serpent, Coluber natrix, 3, 44.
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.
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