History of Animals (Historia Animalium) (1910) - Page 17

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6. Of pairing and copulation in molluscs or cuttlefishes.
7. Of the same in crustaceans.
8. Of the pairing of insects; of the season of pairing; and of the bird called halcyon.
9. Of the season of pairing: in birds, in insects, and in fishes.
10, 11. Of the same in fishes.
12. Of the same in molluscs or cuttlefishes, and in testaceans.
13. Of the same in birds, both wild and domesticated.
14. Of the signs of age and of maturity, and of the pairing seasons: in man and quadrupeds.
15. Of the generation of the purple murex and other testaceans; and of the starfish and of the hermit crab.
16. Of the spontaneous growth of the sea-nettle and of sponges.
17. Of the breeding habits of crustaceans.
18. Of the breeding habits of molluscs.
19. Of the breeding habits of insects; of creatures that live on snow and in fire; and of the ephemera.
20. Of the breeding habits of the hunter-wasp or ichneumon.
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21. Of the breeding habits of bees.
22. Of the varieties of bees; and of honey.
23. Of the breeding habits of wasps.
24. Of the breeding habits of the humble-bee.
25. Of the breeding habits of ants.
26. Of the breeding habits of the scorpion.
27. Of the breeding habits of spiders.
28, 29. Of the breeding habits of grasshoppers and locusts.
30. Of the breeding habits of the cicada, or tettix.
31. Of insects spontaneously generated: of fleas and of lice; of the parasites of fishes.
32. Of the clothes-moth; of the grub called ‘faggot-bearer’; of the fig-wasp, and of the device of caprification.
33. Of the generation of the tortoise, the lizard and the crocodile.
34. Of the generation of serpents, and of the viper.

BOOK VI.

1. Of the pairing and nesting of birds.
2. Of eggs, their colour, shape, structure, and maturation; of wind-eggs; of the pairing-habits of pigeons.
3. Of the structure of the hen’s egg, and of the development of the chick therein; of twin-eggs.
4. Of the breeding habits of pigeons.
5. Of the vulture; and of swallow-chicks.
6. Of eagles; and of their treatment of their young.
7. Of the cuckoo; and of its laying in an alien nest.
8. Of the brooding of pigeons, crows, and partridges.