Natural History (1491) - Page 19


pearls are found	Ch. 35.	On the phoenix	Ch. 2.
On the nature of purple and the murex a predatory sea snail used for dye	Ch. 36.	On eagles	Ch. 3.
How many kinds there are	Ch. 37.	When the standards of the legions
At what time they are caught	Ch. 38.	begin to be referring to eagle standards	Ch. 4.
When the use of purple began in Rome	Ch. 39.	Marvelous things about the eagle	Ch. 5.
On their price	Ch. 40.	On vultures	Ch. 6.
On dyeing with amethyst and kermes a scale insect used for red dye		On the sanquale a type of bird, possibly the osprey	Ch. 7.
and fine linen	Ch. 41.	On hawks	Ch. 8.
On the pinna a bivalve mollusk and the pinnotheres a small crab living inside the pinna; and on the senses of aquatic animals	Ch. 42.	On the eocyce likely an error for 'oedicnemus', the stone-curlew which perishes along with its own kind	Ch. 9.
On scolopendra centipedes, foxes, and		On kites	Ch. 10.
the glanis a type of catfish	Ch. 43.	Digest of birds by their kinds	Ch. 11.
On the ram-fish	Ch. 44.	On ill-omened birds: the crow and the raven	Ch. 12.
On those which have a third nature, neither animal nor		On the incendiaria a mythical bird said to start fires	Ch. 13.
plant; and on sea-nettles and sponges	Ch. 45.	On divination	Ch. 14.
On dogfish sharks	Ch. 46.	On unknown birds	Ch. 15.
On animals which are enclosed in a hard shell, and those without one; and on other lowly animals	Ch. 47.	On nocturnal birds	Ch. 16.
On poisonous marine creatures	Ch. 48.	On owls	Ch. 17.
On the diseases of fish	Ch. 49.	On the woodpecker	Ch. 18.
On their marvelous generation	Ch. 50.	On those having curved claws and
Also on generation; and which fish lay eggs	Ch. 51.	toes	Ch. 19.
On the wombs of fish	Ch. 52.	On peacocks; and who first
On the long life of fish	Ch. 53.	ate them	Ch. 20.
On oyster beds; and who first		On roosters; and when a cockerel is castrated
discovered them	Ch. 54.	while speaking referring to the belief that capons stop crowing	Ch. 21.
Who first made vivaria enclosures/ponds for eels	Ch. 55.	On geese; and who first
On snail-farms; and who first instituted		ate goose liver; and on goose fat
them	Ch. 56.	and seasoning	Ch. 22.
On terrestrial fish	Ch. 57.	On cranes, storks, colors, and foreign
On the mice of the Nile	Ch. 58.	birds, quails, and the glottis	Ch. 23.
On the anthias fish; and how it is caught	Ch. 59.	On swallows, blackbirds, thrushes, and star-
On starfish	Ch. 60.	lings, turtledoves, and wood pigeons	Ch. 24.
On the dactyls razor clams and their miracles	Ch. 61.	Which birds are perennial, which live six months, which
On the enmities and friendships among aquatic		three months	Ch. 25.
animals	Ch. 62.	On marvelous birds	Ch. 26.
Total items, histories, and observations: 650.		On the seleucides a type of bird, possibly a starling	Ch. 27.
FROM THE AUTHORS.		On the ibis	Ch. 28.
Turranius, Graccu, Trogus, Maecenas,		Which birds are not in which places, and which change
Albus Flavus, Cornelius Nepos, Valerius the mino-		color and voice; and on nightingales	Ch. 29.
graph, Fabianus, Fenestella, Mutianus, He-		On blackbirds	Ch. 30.
lius Scilo, Statius Sebosus, Melissus, Seneca,		The time of the birds' generation	Ch. 31.
Cicero, Macer, Aemilius, Messala, Corvi-		On kingfishers and their navigable days;
nus, Trebonius Niger, Nigidius.		and on the gull and the rest of the aquatic
FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES.		kind	Ch. 32.
Aristotle, King Archelaus, Callimachus, De-		On the diversity of nesting birds, the night-
mocritus, Theophrastus, Thrasyllus, Hegeside-		jars goatsuckers, and partridges	Ch. 33.
nus, Cydnias, Alexander Polyhistor.		On doves	Ch. 34.
		On wood pigeons and the difference between
BOOK Ten contains the nature and		them	Ch. 35.
history of flying animals.		On sparrows	Ch. 36.
On the nature of birds	Ch. 1.	On the timungulus a small bird	Ch. 37.
		On the flight and gait of birds	Ch. 38.
		On the apodes footless birds	Ch. 39.