[136] Hist. Anim. lib. v, cap. 5, et lib. vi, cap. 2.

[137] Virgil, Georg. 2.

[138] Ornithol. lib. xx, p. 541.

[139] Gen. Anim. lib. iii.

[140] Op. cit. p. 31.

[141] Op. cit. p. 37.

[142] De Gen. Anim. lib. iii, c. 1.

[143] [The word in the original is chyle, for which, in accordance with modern views, chyme is substituted.—Ed.]

[144] Fab. l. c. p. 17.

[145] De Generat. Animal. lib. iii, cap. 2.