36 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



APriH {co)ili7iucd). 



veoTTia TCI Tuiv cWfKTopi^coi', and Sundevall makes Harpe the Black Kite, 

 Milviis atcr, or M. />a?-astticus. Aubert and Wimmer suspect dfrnrj to 

 be a large Gull {Lams). For other hypotheses, vide Buchhok p. 137. 



'AIBHNOI'* u,)in6es, Hesych. Possibly akin to cnr'iuni. 



"All AON- ipco^iou, Hesych. Heb. HT'Dn, chasidah, the Stork. Cf. 

 Boch. Hieroz. ii. 321-326. 



'AIKA'AA«}>0Z. An unknown bird, mentioned Arist. H. A. ii. 12 as 

 possessing colic coeca (dno^udSas). 



Usually translated Owl, from the story of the Metamorphosis of 

 Ascalaphus, Ovid, Met. v. 539 Foedaque fit volucris, venturi niinda 

 luctus, Ignavtis bubo, diruni mortalibtts omen. Cf. Apollodor. ii. p. 107 

 'A(TKd\iicf)ov ouv Ar]ixrjTr]p iiroirja-fv arov : Serv. ad Aen. iv. 462. The mys- 

 tical aspect of the story is briefly indicated by Creuzer, Symbolik, iv. 

 378. [Ouaenam sit avis, neque ex Aristotele neque ex Plinio aut ex 

 Aeliano deprehendere potuimus. Sed Ovidius inter fabulas ostendit 

 esse bubonis speciem : Scaliger in Arist.] 



'AIKAAn'riAI. (do-KoXo-rras, Arist. ?^IS. C'). Probably identical with 

 (T/coXoTTa^, q. v. The Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 26, 617 b eV rdl^ ki^ttoi? dXiV/cerai epKf(rii>, to /^e'ye^os 

 oaov ciXeKTopis, TO pvy)(^os priKpov, to )(pa>pn op,oiov drra-yiji'i' rpe;^fi Se Taxv, 



The Woodcock according to v. d. Miihle and Lindermayer is very 

 abundant in Greece in November. Aubert and Wimmer rather identify 

 aaKaXcdnns with the Curlew, 



'AZTEPI'AI. 



I. An Eagle = ;(;pD(rderoc, Acl. ii. 39. In Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 

 620, mentioned as yevos UpaKav, and usually identified with the 

 Goshawk. 



Cf. Scaliger in Arist. p. 249 : aarfpiav vertit Theodosius stella^'em . . . 

 fuTTfp'iav igitur puto nostrum astiircni : ut enim punctis quibusdam 

 tanquam stellis totus pictus in pectore. This identification, though 

 adopted by Sundevall, is inacceptable. uaTepins is said to be the 

 largest of the eagles, and to feed on fawns, cranes, and in Crete, bulls ; 

 like xpva-deTos it seems to be used not of the actual bird but as a symbol, 

 probably astronomical. 



II. A bird of the Heron kind, supposed, for a similar and equally 

 unsatisfactory reason, to be the Bittern, Ardea stellaris, L. 



It is only mentioned in connexion with an Egyptian myth, probably 

 relating to the Stork ; and the name itself is in all probability foreign 

 and corrupt (cf. aaiSoi'). 



