Ἀτταγὴν, grouse, Tetrao bonasia, or T. attagen, 249;
it lives on the ground, 276.
Ἀττέλαβος, a kind of locust, Gryllus, 123;
reproduction and death, 133.
Αὐλωπίας, the same as ἀνθίας, 159.
Αὐξὶς, the young tunny, 160.
Ἀφάκη, plant, a kind of vetch, 208.
Ἄφρος, fish spawn, 157.
Ἀφύη, anchovy or sardine, Melanurus juvenculus, 157,
its origin, _ib._;
other kinds, _ib._;
in modern Greek ἀφροψαρο.
Ἀχαΐνης ἔλαφος, a variety of large stag with a strong mane, _Strack_;
a brocket, or two-year old stag, from his single-pointed horns,
_Liddell and Scott_, 39, 237.
Ἀχάρνας, a sea fish, Anarrhicas rufus, 200;
does not bear heat, 218.
Ἀχέτας, the male grasshopper, Cicada Orni, 89.
Ἀχρὰς, a kind of wild pear, Pyrus communis, 206, 268.
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Βάλαγρος, a fresh-water fish, Cobitis barbus, 98.
Βάλανος, Balanus, Cirripede, acorn shell, 94, 117.
Βάλανος, acorn, 221.
Βάλλερος, a fresh-water fish, Cyprinus blicca, 156, 219;
βάλερος, βαλῖνος, βαρῖνος, are various readings.
Βασιλεὺς, also called trochilus, and presbys, lives in holes, 244;
has a bright crest, 202;
probably Regulus Cristatus, golden-crested wren, or Sylvia
troglodytes.
Βατὶς, a bird that frequents bushes, Sylvia rubicola, eats worms, 202;
mentioned with finch and sparrow.
Βατὶς, a fish, the prickly roach, _Liddell and Scott_, 149, 152.
Βάτος, ray, Raia batos, not the skate, which is perhaps
leiobatos, 8, 37;
its manner of coition, 104;
it does not receive its young into itself, 150, 151;
it lives in holes, 214;
its manner of taking its prey, 255.
Βάτραχος, frog, Rana esculenta and R. temporaria, 3, 39, 87;
croaks, 96;
the female larger than the male, 100;
coition, 103;
tadpole, 154;
its united spawn, 155;
spoken of as a class, 196;
no croaking frogs in Cyrene, 225;
marsh frogs are foes to bees, 261.
Βάτραχος, a cartilaginous fish, Lophius piscatorius and L.
barbatus, 8, 37, 38, 40;
among the selache, 104;
oviparous, 148, 150;
it produces many young, 159.
Βελόνη, fish, Syngnathus acus, 40;
its reproduction, 109, 154, 160;
gregarious, 234;
the Halcyon builds its nest with the bones of this fish.
Βολίταινα, cephalopod, Eledone moschites, _Leach_, 76;
also called ὄζολις; it does not exist in the Euripus, 256.
Βομβύκια, Apis cementaria, or also Megachile muraria, and Bombus
terrestris, forms an angular cell of mud, 131.
Βομβυλιὸς, larva of silk worm, 124;
the humble bee, 260, 271.
Βόμβυξ, silkworm.
Βόνασσος, Antelope bonassus, or Bos Urus, Bison, 26, 28;
its country, form, habits, hunting, 273.
Βοσκὰς, Anas boscas, or A. Crecca, 203.
Βόστρυχος, insect, Lampyris noctiluca, _Strack_, 125.
Βουβαλὶς, Antilope Gnou, 58.