1 8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AI0YIA {continued). 



aWviai. x^P'^c'^^ Tivdaaovrai 7TT(pvyfa(Tiv : cf. Theophr. De Sign. ii. 28, 

 Virg. Georg. i. 362. 



A long but unsatisfactory description in Dion. De Avib. ii. 5. 



A title or epithet of Athene, Paus. i. 5. 3, i. 41. 6. 



Said to be the name of a horse in Mnasalc. xiii. Gk. Anthol. i. p. 125. 



See also Sutttyis, Xdpos. 



Arz. An unknown bird. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b : mentioned 



between ;(fji'aXa)7r?j| and nr)V€\o\l/ as one of the opviOts areyiwonodfs 



^apvTtpoi (omitted in several MSS.). 



According to Belon the Plover ( Vanellus cristatus) was so called 

 in Greece in his time : the interpretation cannot hold. Sundevall 

 conjectures di^ to be one of the smaller Geese {) Anser letccopsis), and 

 to be derived from the goat-like cry. Perhaps as alyoKe(f)a\os suggests 

 the Horned Owl, so di^ here suggests the Horned Grebe, Podiceps 

 mcritus, Lath., a common bird in Greece in winter. 



AI'PIGAKOT. Vide s. vv. aitraKos, epiOaKos. 



AriAKOI. A very doubtful word. 



AcaXfiroi Se kcli to ^aov 6 aipiduKos a'lcraKOi, Ktym. M. Cf. Serv. in 

 Aen. iv. 254, v. 128. 



Al'lA'AJiN [aitnipcov, Hcsych.). A sort of Hawk, traditionally identified 

 with the Merlin, I^a/co aesa/on, L. (Gesner, &c.). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 rmv 8e UpaKoov Beirepos [rf] Kparta]. lb. 

 ix. I, 609 b alyvTTiM TToXe[xios' oXaTveKi noXep-ios Kcii KopaKt. Ael. H. A. 

 ii. 51 pdxerai 8' 6 Kopa^ kol opvi.0i. laxvpcS t(3 koK, alcrdXmi'i, koI orav 

 6ed(rrjTai dXanreKi jxaxdixevov, ripcope'irai. Cf. Antig. H. M. 59 (64)- Plin. 

 N. H. X. (74) 95 Aesalon vocatur parva avis, ova corvi frangens, 

 cuius pulli infestantur a vulpibus. Invicem haec catulos eius ipsam- 

 que vellit : quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur velut adversus 

 communem hostem. (Some editors read aesalona for epilettni, Plin. 

 N. H. x. 9.) 



'AKAAANOl'l* ei'Soj opveov fiiKpov, Suid. Vide S.W. dKacGis, dKav'GuXXis. 

 Ar. Pax 1078 T] KooSoiv aKaXnvdls (Schol. \a\6v yap to fwof) eneiyopevr] 

 TvcpXa TiKTii (cf. Paroemiogr. ed. Gaisf., p. 69). Associated with Artemis, 

 Ar. Av. 871. One of the nine Emathidae, daughters of Pieros, was 

 metamorphosed into the bird aKuXavdis, Nicander ap. Anton. Lib. 

 Met. ix. 



'AKANGI'I. A small bird, usually identified with the Linnet, Fringilla 

 cannabma, L., or the Goldfinch, F. carduelis, L., on the ground of 

 the more than doubtful derivation from imavBa. The description 



