Ἀηδῶν, nightingale, Sylvia luscinia, its song, 95, 96;
reproduction, 108;
its tongue, 246;
changes its song and colour, 276.
Ἀθερίνη, Atherina presbyter, _Spratt's Lycia_, or A. vera, in modern
Greek atherno, 159;
its reproduction, 160, 234.
Αἰγίθαλος, Parus, Tit or Titmouse, eats worms, 202;
three species, _ib._;
lays many eggs, 246;
an enemy to bees, 265;
σπιξίτης, parus major, _Strack_. ὀρεινὸς, Parus ater, _Strack_, or
P. caudatus. ἐλάχιστος, Parus cœruleus.
Αἴγιθος, Bunting, Emberiza, _Strack_, or hedge sparrow or Parus
cœruleus, dislikes the ass, builds in hedges, 232;
hostile to the anthus and acanthis, 233;
its food and young, 246.
Αἰγοθήλας, goat sucker, Caprimulgus Europæus, 250.
Αἰγοκέφαλος, Stryx otus, _Strack_, 39.
Αἰγυπιὸς, the Vulture, it is hostile to the Æsalon (small hawk), 9, 23;
and fights with the eagle, _ib._
Αἴγυπτος, Egypt, the Egyptians batch eggs in manure, 139;
two kinds of Egyptian mice, one with stiff hair (Hierax, or
Aulacodus Swinderianus), another with long hind legs (Jerboa, or
Cavia), 178;
the care of animals among the Egyptians, 231;
a large kind of oxen in Egypt, 226;
asp and ichneumon, 238;
white and black ibis, 242.
Αἰγώλιος, a night bird of prey, Stryx passerina, _Strack_, or S.
flammea. _Camus._ La chouette, little owl, 201;
kills the calaris, 232;
its habit and mode of life, 247;
in p. 139 this bird is called αἰτώλιος.
Αἰετὸς, a cartilaginous fish, one of the class selache, Raia
aquila, 104.
Αἰθιοπία, Æthiopia, winged serpents in Æthiopia, probably Draco
volans, 9;
Æthiopian sheep, 165.
Αἰθίοψ, Æthiopian, teeth, 60;
semen, 72, 188.
Αἴθυια, a large waterbird, Larus parasiticus, or L. Marinus, _Strack_,
or L. argentatus, 2;
its reproduction, 108;
food, 203.
Αἴλουρος, cat, Felis cattus, copulation, 103;
its young, food, and mode of life, 177;
kills birds, 239.
Αἱμοῤῥοΐς, or ἀποῤῥαΐς, a kind of shell fish, perhaps Murex, 85, 86.
Αἴξ, goat, male and female, Ibex or wild goat, _Spratt's Lycia_, Caper
hircus, _Strack_, 13, 27, 28, 31, 66;
the she goats of Œta, 70;
the he goat in Lemnos, _ib._;
it is mentioned with the chimæra or domestic goat in 71;
dreams, 97;
infested with ticks, 134;
discharges of the female, 163, 164;
gestation, 165;
food, drink, &c., 207;
the wild goat, 225;
Syrian Caper hircus Mambricus and Lycian goat, C. Angorensis, _ib._;
Egyptian, 226;
its mode of life, 235;
wild goats in Crete, 238;
rumination, 278.
Αἴξ, a water bird, probably Tantalus arquatus, _Strack_, Scolopax
Gallinago, 208.
Αἰσάλων, a small hawk, perhaps sparrow-hawk or merlin, Falco
Æsalon, 253.
Αἰτώλιος, see Αἰγώλιος.