Ὑποτριόρχης, buzzard, 253, see τριόρχης. Ὕς, swine, Sus scropha, 26; with single hoof in Pœonia, 27, 29; boar, 31, 32; swine, 35, 42, 46, 66; heats, 69; voice, 96; sow, is without tusks, 100; reproduction, 107, 112, 114, 135, 162, 163; 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. Φάγρος, a sea-fish, Sparus pagrus, 211, 218. 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; reproduction and eggs, 138, 144, 145, 147, 202; 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 turns, 147, 202, 240; 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. Φυκίον, fucus, sea-weed, 122, 125, 154, 199, 200, 255. Φυκὶς, a fish living on sea-weed, Gobius niger, 154; food, 200; changes its colour, and is the only fish that makes nests, 228. Φύκος, fucus, 154, 158, 218, 220. Φώκαινα, porpoise, Delphinus Phocæna, 152, 212. Φώκη, seal, Phoca vitulina, P. monachus, 4, 7, 14, 22, 25, 26, 30, 39, 44, 69; reproduction and habits, 103, 152, 153, 196; food, 205; fight together, 231. Φωλὶς, a fish enclosing itself in mucus, 256; Blennius pholis, _Strack_.