[303] This is not the case. Birds have kidneys, but of an irregular form.
[304] This is a mistake. It does cicatrize.
[305] Or bag.
[306] “The (principal) place.”
[307] Ajasson renders this passage: “The effects are fatal when this organ, becoming displaced, absorbs the air.” The text is probably corrupt.
[308] Varro, De Re Rust. B. ii. c. 4, says that he saw an instance of this in Arcadia.
[309] This is not the case.
[310] There is no similarity whatever between the spinal marrow and that which is found in the other bones.
[311] The hare and the partridge, for instance.