[211] Melanurus juvenculus.
[212] (Or perhaps) after parturition the discharge becomes thinner in consistence.
[213] Perhaps ferret, Mustela varo, or weasel.
[214] Serboa, Dipus gerbillus, or D. jaculus.
[215] The seventh book ends very abruptly, and hence it has been thought that what is now called the tenth book, in which the subject of reproduction is continued, would have its proper place here, as a continuation of the seventh. Whether a portion of the genuine work of Aristotle has been lost which would have completed the subject is another question; but there can be little doubt that the tenth book, in the form in which we have it, is no genuine work of Aristotle; some of the opinions are contrary to those which he has expressed, and the whole style and language is different from that of Aristotle. Schneider therefore has placed the tenth book at the end of the work, that he may neither entirely exclude that which in former times was considered a portion of Aristotle's treatise on Animals, nor yet allow a fictitious book to interrupt the genuine writings of his Author.
[216] Different species of pigeons and doves.
[217] Κόττυφος, Turdus merula, Strack, blackbird, but probably more than one kind of bird is included under the same name. Compare 9, 36, 2.
[218] The passage is altogether corrupt.
[219] Indigestion caused by eating barley when heated.
[220] Phrensy.