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LIBER X · CAPUT 41

THE INSTINCTS OF BIRDS—THE CARDUELIS, THE TAURUS, THE ANTHUS

THE INSTINCTS OF BIRDS—THE CARDUELIS, THE TAURUS, THE ANTHUS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
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THE INSTINCTS OF BIRDS—THE CARDUELIS, THE TAURUS, THE ANTHUS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Villaribus gallinis et religio inest. Inhorrescunt edito ovo excutiuntque sese et circumactae purificant aut festuca aliqua sese et ova lustrant.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

The farm-yard fowls have also a certain notion of religion; upon laying an egg they shudder all over, and then shake their feathers; after which they turn round and purify themselves, or else hallow themselves and their eggs with some stalk or other.