AHAftN— AirOKE<t>AAOI. 1 5 



Arri0OI (also aiyii'Oos). An unknown and mythical bird, identified 

 by the older commentators (e. g. Belon) with the Linnet. 



Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609, 610 ova TroXf/xioy (cf. Antig. Hist. Mirab. 58 

 (63) ; Ael. H. A. v. 48 ; Dion. De Avib. i. 12 ; Phile 696 ; Plin. x. 95). 

 TToXcjUtoi de Kal avQos Km aKav6\s (cat a'iyi.60^. lb. ix. 1 5, 6l6b ev^icoTos 

 Kai TToXvreKvns, tov TroSa ;(a)Xdf. [Many MSS. have ulyloBos : for xdAos 

 some texts read i>xpoi, or x'^'^p"?, the latter Albertus Magnus, but cf. 

 a'lyidoi dn(j)iyvr]eLs, Callim. fr. ap. Antig. 1. c. ; Plin. x. (8) 9.] Xiyerai S* 

 OTi alyldov KciL livdov aijxn ov avfiixiyvvTai dXXy]\ois : idem, Pliny X. (74) 

 95 (who calls it avis mini)nd), Ael. H. A. x. 32, and Phile 432, the 

 same statement of aKai'dis and alyidaXos, and Antig. H. M. 106 (114) 

 the same of a'lyidos and aKavOis. Dion. De Avib. iii. 14 drjparai kXco/Sm, 



fV <jp TToXaL drjpadels erepos eVi to ^odv KUTaKXeierai. Antig. H. M. 45 (51), 

 how alyidos sucks the goats (v. alyodijXas) and is ;YajXo's-. [Aegithus 

 solo nomine huic nostrae aetati cognitus, P. Hardouin, Annott. ad 

 Plin. X. 8.] Vide s. vv. aKavQi<s, a»'8os. 



Al'n'nOvp. A Macedonian name for the Eagle. Etymol. M. 



Al'rOGH'AAI. The Goatsucker or Nightjar, Capritmilgus euro- 

 paeus, L. 



The name is probably corrupt, and the mythical attribute of the bird 

 due to a case of ' Volksetymologie.' 



M. Gk. name ytSo^uorpa is a corrupt translation of alyodrjXns (Heldr. 

 p. ^y). Also called ^v^da-rpa, vvKreplSa (i. e. the Bat, V. d. Miihle), wk- 

 TomiTrjs, and nXavos (Erh.). (Cf Germ. Ziegenmelker^ Kuhmelker , Fr. 

 tette-ckevre, &c.) 



Arist. H. A. ix. 30, 618 b opn? opejj/oj, piKpa pd^oiv Korrvcpov, KOKKvyos 

 fXciTTcov' wa 8vo [cf Lindermayer, p. 38, Kriiper, p. 183, &c.] rj rpla' to 

 8e rjdos ^XaKiKos [verb, dub., cf. Aub. and Wimm. in Arist. \. c.]. OrjXdCfi 

 Be Tas aiyas. ovk o^vainos Trjs rjfiepas. Ael. H. A. iii. .39 ToXfxrjpoTaTOS 

 ^aiav .... eTTLriderai Tois al^l kutu to KapTipov, Kal Tins ovBaaiv avTotv 

 npoa-TreTopevos eha eKpv^a to ydXa .... TV'pXo7 tov pacTTov, Kixl dnoai3ivvvai 

 t!]v eKtWev emppotju. Cf. Plin. x. 56 (40). Vide s. vv. aiyiOaXos, al'yiOos. 



Al'rOKE'<t>AAOI. Probably a kind of Owl: perhaps the Horned or 

 Long-eared Owl, S/nx ofus, L., or its small ally Ephialtes scops, 

 K. Bl. The latter is the Asio of Plin. x. (23), xxix. 38, which name 

 in its Italian diminutive form is Shelley's ' Sad Aziola.' 



Arist. H. A. ii. 15, 506 oXco? oik e;^fi tov aTrXijva' Trjv x^Xfjv e)(eL jrpos tw 

 rjiraTi kcu rrpus rfj koiXUi. lb. ii. 17, 509 tov aTopa^ov e;^€t tvpvTepov to 



KaTCi). 



Gesner (p. 62) mentions Capriceps as an unknown bird. Neither 

 Sundevall nor Aubert and Wimmer pronounce an opinion on it ; the 



