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 GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



"AFAY. 6 KvKvos, VTTO 2Kv0a)v, Hesych. 



'ATO'P' dfTos, KvTTpioi, Hesych. 



Bochart (Hieroz. II. c. xi, coll. 79, 80) shows good reason for 

 supposing that aeros here should read yepapos, and that ayop is 

 merely Heb. "lljy, a crane (Jerem. viii. 7 ; Is. xxxviii. 14). Cf. 

 Lewysohn, Zool. d. Talmuds, p. 169. 



'AfPAKO'MAI' opvii TLs i'TTo U.apcjiiXuii', Hesych. 



'ArPEY'l. An unknown bird. It is Hke a Blackbird, black, musical, 

 and a mimic, Ael. viii. 24. The descripiion is somewhat sug- 

 gestive of the Indian Mynah, but it is in the main mystical. Vide 

 S. V. Karpcus. 



'AAflNHl'l, s. d8w»'T]l's (cf. Creuzer, Symb. ii. 478). fj ;(eXt8a)i/, Hesych. 



Cf. drj^ovis, S. V. aTjSoJl'. 



'AErZKn*!*, vide s. v. o-kw\|/. 



'AEAAO'Z, an unknown bird, Hesych. 



'AEPOKO'PAE, vide s. v. Kopa^. 



'AE'POvJ;, vide s. V. p.e'poij'. 



'AETO'I. Ep. and Ion. ahTik—alr]ros in Find. P.iv, Arat. 522, 591, &c. ; d?jToy, 

 Arat. 315; al^eros, for alferns, Hesych. Dim. dfTtSei'y, Ael. vii. 47, Aesop, 

 Fab. I. deros is said to be 'the flyer,' ^ //te Bird,' from root af or vz, 

 of Sk. vi'-s, Lat. avis, and of Gk. (Irjpi : the same root perhaps in 

 ol-wv-6s (Curt.) and at-yvir-ws ; cf. the Greek use of ola)v6s ; also the 

 Lat. use of a/es for Eagle, and opveov in M. Gk. for Vulture. Never- 

 theless, the absence of Eagle-names similar to ueros in other Indo- 



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