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29. Of the cuckoo.
30. Of the bird called cypselus; and of the goat-sucker.
31. Of ravens.
32. Of eagles.
33. Of a great bird in Scythia.
34. Of the phene or lammergeyer.
35. Of the petrel.
36. Of hawks; of hawking in Thrace; and of the wolves by Lake Moeotis.
37. Of the habits of the fishing-frog, of the torpedo, and of other fishes; and of the sepia and the argonaut.
38. Of industrious insects; of the ant.
39. Of spiders and of the spider's web.
40. Of the whole economy of bees.
41. Of wasps.
42. Of the wasps called anthrenae.
43. Of humble-bees.
44. Of the temper and disposition of the lion and other animals.
45. Of the bison on Mount Messapium.
46. Of elephants.
47. Of camels; and of the King of Scythia's mare.
48. Of the affectionate disposition of the dolphin.
49. Of hens that assume the plumage of the cock.
50. Of the effects of castration or mutilation; of rumination or chewing the cud.
49 B. Of change of plumage, or metamorphosis, in birds; of the hoopoe; of birds bathing in water or in dust.