U1UH Now all BIRDS are called Birds, but
        ~  there are a lot of them-for, just as they differ
        J  from one another in species, so do they in
           diversity of nature. Some are simple-minded
like the pigeon, others astute like the partridge; some
subject themselves to the hand of man like the hawks,
others shun it like the Garamantes;1 some are delighted
with human society like the swallow, others, like the
rock-dove, prefer a secret way of life in desert places;
some only feed on the corn which they find, like the
goose, while others eat flesh and turn their minds to
thieving, like the kite; some congregate, i.e. fly in flocks
like starlings and quail, others are solitary, i.e. go singly,
pillaging by cunning, like the eagle, the hawk and others
of that sort; some squeak like the swallow, others breathe
out the most beautiful songs like the swan and the black-
bird-while others again imitate the words and voices of
men, like the parrot and the magpie. There are number-
less more, differing as to kind and custom; for there
are so many sorts of birds that it is not possible to learn
every one, nor indeed is there anybody who can pene-
trate all the deserts of Scythia and India and Ethiopia,
to know their species according to the differences of
them.
  They are called Birds (A-yes) because they do not
  1 Neither this word nor anything closely resembling it is to be found as
a bird
in Liddell and Scott, Lewis and Short, Baxter and Johnson, NED., Ezc. Brit.,
nor even in Aidrovandus.
  The Garamantes were a tribe mentioned in Herodotus, whose capital was
supposed to be Garama in Phazania, now Fezzan.
  The Pheasant is supposed to have orginated from Phasis, a river in Asia
Minor.
Hence   crLav~o's-; OF., Fesan; M.E. Fesazzi.
  If the pheasant originated from Phazania, and not from Phasis, there would
be
some ground for translating 'garamantes' as 'pheasants'.

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