[3] The Garden Warbler, or Bush-pipet, a bird which is considered a great delicacy, especially in the autumn, when it feeds on figs, grapes and so on. Cf. The Hunting Wasps, by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chap. xii.—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[4] From Massalia, the ancient name of Marseilles, of which Phocæa, in Asia Minor, was the mother city.—Translators Note. [↑]

[5] ‘The god made these hours of leisure for us.’—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[6] Colony of Nîmes. Nemansus was the Latin name of Nîmes.—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[7] A form of Mussel.—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[8] Another genus of bivalve molluscs.—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[9] Piddocks.—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[10] Or Cone-shells.—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[11] Bivalved Ostracods.—Translator’s Note. [↑]

[12] A genus of molluscs including the Surf Clams and related species.—Translator’s Note. [↑]