History of Animals (Historia Animalium)

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9. Of the habits of pea-fowl.
10. Of the generation of cartilaginous fishes; of the embryo and its membranes in the smooth dog-fishes.
11. Of the breeding of cartilaginous fishes continued; of the fish called Rhinobatus.
12. Of the dolphin and other cetaceans, and of the seal; and of their generation and parturition.
13. Of the generation of oviparous fishes.
14. Of the carp and sheat-fish, and some other fishes of fresh-water.
15. Of the spontaneous generation of certain fishes.
16. Of the anomalous generation of eels.
17. Of the spawning season in fishes; of the pipe-fish; and of the tunny and mackerel.
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18. Of the phenomena of pairing and conception in viviparous animals, as camels, elephants, horses, kine, and swine.
19. The same of sheep and goats.
20. The same of dogs.
21. The same, with further particulars, of cattle.
22. The same of horses; and of the substance called Hippomanes.
23. The same of asses.
24. Of mules; and of the Syrophoenician mules that pair and breed; of an old mule at Athens.
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25. Of the signs of age in quadrupeds.
26. Of camels.
27. Of elephants.
28. Of wild swine.
29. Of deer.
30. Of bears.
31. Of lions.
32. Of the hyaena; and of its fabled ambiguity of sex.
33. Of hares.
34. Of the fox.
35. Of the wolf, the weasel, the ichneumon and the thos or civet.
36. Of the Syrian mules.
37. Of mice and of their prodigious fecundity; of the mice in Persia and in Egypt.

BOOK VII.

1. Of the signs of puberty in man and woman.
2. Of the so-called catamenia.
3. Of the signs of conception; of effluxion and abortion.
4. Of pregnancy; of twins and of multiple births.
5. Of lactation; and of the period of child-bearing.
6. Of the duration of fecundity; of individual differences in regard to procreation and child-bearing; of the inheritance of deformity; and of resemblance to parents.