38 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



ATTAfAI {continued). 



8e KaTdyfin(f>os Tci TrejA to vcotov, Ktpafieovs Trjv ^poav vnonvppi^av paWov. 

 6r]p€V(Tni be Irro Kvvrjyav 8ia to j3apos Kn\ Trjv Tcbv TTTfpcov ^pa^vT^jTa. (Cf. 

 Dion. De Avib. iii. 10.) e'crri de kovkttikos, noXineiivos re koI aneppnXoyos. 

 Schol. in Ar. Av. 250 6 aTTayas 6 '4x<>>v tov \eipu>va tov Mnpa6a>vos. to. 

 yap Xi/xi'coStj Kn\ i'Xeia X'^pin KaTajSoaKfTca 6 aTTayas. It is friendly with 

 the stag, 0pp. Cyneg. ii. 404. 



Proverbs. — aTTayas vovprjvla [crurepp^frnt], Trapoipla eVt TOiV KkfTTTcov, 

 Suid. s. V. uTTayas, Hesych. s. v. vovpi'jvios, Schol. Ar. Av. 762. Cf. 

 Timon ap. Diog. L. ix. 16. 6, Paroem. Gr. i. p. 307, ii. pp. 16, 212 (Scaliger 

 in Prov. metricis). Ar. Vesp. 257 To*' nriXov ua-ntp aTrnyas Tvpl3d(Ttis 

 /3aS(^coi/. Proverbial as a delicacy : Ar. YlfXapyoU in Athen. 388b aTTayas 

 rj8t(TT0i> eyj/fLV iv iiriviKiois Kpens. PhoeniCld. 4- 5'-'9 Kovhev rjv tovtwv npos 

 aTTayriva avp^aXnv Tav (ipapaToii'. Martial, xiii. 61 Inter sapores fertur 

 alitum primus, lonicarum gustus attagenarum. Cf. Ovid, F. vi. 175, Hor. 

 Epod. ii. 54 ; Plin. x. 48 ; Apicius, De Re Coquin. vi. 3 ; Aul. Cell. 

 Noct. Att. vii. 16, &c. Mentioned also, Hippon. fr. ap. Athen. 1. c. 



The Francolin does not now occur in Greece or Italy, though it is 

 found in Crete, Cyprus, Sicily, Malta, and on the southern shores of the 

 Black Sea (Lindermayer p. 125). On this account, Sundevall and 

 others have disputed its identity with aTTayas, and have identified 

 the latter with various birds, especially Perdz'x cinerea, the Common 

 (or Northern) Partridge ; C. T. Newton, Cont. Rev. 1876, p. 92, taking 

 it to be Pteroclcs alchata, a species of Sand-grouse. The descriptions, 

 especially that of Alex. Myndius, point distinctly to the Francolin, 

 and even Lindermayer does not doubt that the name is to be so 

 interpreted, and that the bird was formerly abundant. The record by 

 Sibthorpe of the modern Greek name, which I cannot find in more 

 recent writers, suggests that the bird has only lately disappeared from 

 Greece. According to Danford (Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. p. 124) 

 it is fast disappearing in Asia Minor also : likewise in Cyprus (Guille- 

 mard, The Field, Sept. 1 892). The general disappearance of the Ouail 

 in recent years from England is a parallel case. 



BAI'BYKOZ" TiiXiKCivos i^iXrjTus, 'Apeplas [Se] ^av(3vKos, Hcsych.' For 

 other readings, v. Steph. Thes. ii. coll. 40, 41, and Schmidt's 

 Hesych. i. pp. 352, 366. 



BAIH'0. An Egyptian name for a Hawk. 



Horap. i. 7 avrl ^vx/js 6 lepa^ TiKTcreTdi, (k tiJs tov ovopaTOS eppijveias' 

 jcaXeiTflt yap Trap AiyvTTTiois n Upa^, Baa'jd, tovto 8e to ovopa diaipedev, 

 i/'i'X'?'' (rrjpaivft Ka\ KnpS/nj/* ecrrt yap to pev /Sat ■v/'i'X'/' ''"'' ^^ ^1^ Kapdla' fj de 

 Kapbia KaT AiyvnTLovs yj/v^rji ntpilioXos, coare arjpaipfiv ti)v crvpdeaiv tov 

 ovuparos, ■v|/'u;(j)v (yKapbiav' dcf) ov Ka\ 6 lepo^ 8ia to npos Trp/ ''p'vxrjv avp- 



