Excerpt from Symbolism of Animals and Birds: Represented in English Church Architecture The original Bestiary (generally called the Physiologus) was produced in a. Far less scientific age than ours. No one knows who wrote the Physiologus and there is no clue to be traced from the title, which simply means The Naturalist. But owing to its doctrinal and linguistic peculiarities it has been assigned to an Alexandrine source. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.