[2971] The Tetrao urogallus of Linnæus, according to Cuvier.
[2972] The Otis tarda of Linnæus. Cuvier says, that it is not the case that they are bad eating, and remarks that birds have no marrow in the larger bones.
[2973] Doé thinks that the spinal marrow is meant.
[2974] B. iv. c. 18, and B. vii. c. 2.
[2975] In B. vii. c. 2, Pliny speaks of the Pygmies as living to the far East of India.
[2976] See B. iv. cc. 20 and 26; and B. vi. c. [2].
[2977] The “village of the Python,” or “serpent.” Gueroult suggests that this may he Serponouwtzi, beyond the river Oby, in Siberia.
[2978] Thirteenth of August.
[2979] M. Mauduit has a learned discussion in Panckouke’s Translation, vol. viii., many pages in length; in which he satisfactorily shows that this is not entirely fabulous, but that the wild swan of the northern climates really is possessed of a tuneful note or cadence. Of course, the statement that it only sings just before its death, must be rejected as fabulous.
[2980] The “mother of the quails.” Frederic II., in his work, De Arte Venandi, calls the “rallus,” or “rail,” the “leader of the quails.”