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On the tragelaphus goat-stag, the chameleon, and the rest that change color	Ch. 33.
On the tarandus reindeer, the lycaon, and the thos a type of jackal	Ch. 34.
On the porcupine	Ch. 35.
On bears and their young	Ch. 36.
On Pontic and Alpine mice and hedgehogs	Ch. 37.
On the leontophonus a small animal said to kill lions, the lynx, bees, and squirrels	Ch. 38.
On the viper, snails, and lizards	Ch. 39.
On dogs	Ch. 40.
On the bite of a mad dog	Ch. 41.
On the nature of horses	Ch. 42.
On donkeys and mules	Ch. 43.
On oxen	Ch. 44.
On the apis the sacred Egyptian bull	Ch. 45.
On the nature of herds and livestock	Ch. 46.
On the kinds of wool and clothing	Ch. 47.
On the musmon mouflon	Ch. 48.
On goats and their generation	Ch. 49.
On swine and their nature	Ch. 50.
On parks for beasts	Ch. 51.
On semi-feral animals	Ch. 52.
On apes	Ch. 53.
On hares	Ch. 54.
On deer	Ch. 55.
On mice and dormice	Ch. 56.
Which animals are not in which places	Ch. 57.
Which animals are harmful to newcomers	Ch. 58.

Total items, histories, and observations: 788.

EX AVCTORIBVS.

Mutianus, Icilius, Verrius Flaccus, L. Piso, Cornelius Valerianus, Cato the Censor, Fenestella, Trogus, Actius, Columella, Virgil, Varro, L. Metellus, Scipio, Cornelius Celsus, Nigidius, Trebius Niger, Pomponius Mela, Manilius Sura.

EXTERNIS.

King Juba, Polybius, Onesicritus, Isidorus, Antipater, Aristotle, Demetrius the physicist, Democritus, Theophrastus, Euanthes, Apocha (the Olympian victor), King Hiero, King Attalus, King Philometor, Ctesias, Duris, Philistus, Archytas, Phylarchus, Amphilochus, Athenaeus, Anaxipolis, Apollodorus of Thasos, Lenius, Aristophanes of Miletus, Antigonus, Cineus, Agathocles of Chios, Apollonius of Pergamon, Aristandrus of Athens, Bacaius of Miletus, Bion of Soli, Chaereas of Athens, Diodorus of Priene, Dion of Colophon, Epigenes, Evagon of Rhodes, Thasius, Euphronius, Athenaeus, Hegesias, Maroneus, Meuadrus of Paros, Menecrates the poet of Heraclea, Androtion (who wrote on agriculture), Escrio (who wrote on the same), Dionysius (who translated Mago), Diophanes (who made an epitome from Dionysius), King Archelaus, Nicander.

THE NINTH BOOK CONTAINS:

The histories and natures of aquatic animals.


On the nature of aquatic animals	Ch. 1.
Which animals in the sea are the largest	Ch. 2.
On the beasts of the Indian sea	Ch. 3.
Which are also in the ocean	Ch. 4.
On the figures of tritons, Nereids, and sea-elephants	Ch. 5.
On whales and orcs a large sea predator, likely the orca	Ch. 6.
Whether fish breathe, whether they sleep	Ch. 7.
On dolphins and their wondrous nature	Ch. 8.
On porpoises	Ch. 9.
On tortoises and how they are caught	Ch. 10.
Who first began to cut tortoises	Ch. 11.
The coverings of aquatic animals	Ch. 12.
On the seal	Ch. 13.
On fish without hair, how they give birth, and how many of their kinds there are	Ch. 14.
On the names and natures of many fish	Ch. 15.
On omens and the diversity of fish	Ch. 16.
On the mullet and other fish, and those which are not prized everywhere	Ch. 17.
On the mule-fish, the coratinus, the salpa, and the salmon	Ch. 18.
On the exocoetus flying fish, mice, polypi octopuses, and moray eels	Ch. 19.
A digest of fish by body shape	Ch. 20.
On eels	Ch. 21.
On catching them in Lake Benacus	Ch. 22.
On the nature of the moray	Ch. 23.
On flatfish	Ch. 24.
On the sea urchin and its wondrous nature	Ch. 25.
On the variety of the nature of fish	Ch. 26.
On the kite-fish and the sea-dragon	Ch. 27.
On fish without blood	Ch. 28.
On squid, cuttlefish, polypi, and nautili	Ch. 29.
On the onigena a legendary or unidentified crustacean, lobsters, crabs, snails, and shellfish	Ch. 30.
On crabs	Ch. 31.
On snails	Ch. 32.
On scallops	Ch. 33.
On marine riches	Ch. 34.
How they are born, where, and how