40 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



BI'TTAKOX. a Parrot. Vide s. v. v|/iTTaKOs. 



BOZKA'Z, v. 11. |3aaK(£s, <j)a(7Kds. A small Wild Duck; probably including 

 the Teal [Afias crecca) and Garganey (^A. querquedula), both 

 common in Greece ; and in Athenaeus also a larger species. 

 PacTKcis, Ar. Av. 885. 



PoaKcxs, Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b mentioned among the heavier 

 water-birds, ofiows fxiv pi'jttj], to de fityedos e'Xarrcoi/. Alex. Mynd. ap. 

 Athen. ix. 52, 395 '^ ^ 1^^" ^^PP^" Karaypacpos, exovcTL 8e 01 cippeves aipd Tf 

 Kni (Xarrovn rrj crupixeTpla ra pvy)(a. eari de Koi ciWo yeuos l3ocrKu8a>v pe'iCov 

 HfV vr]TTT]s, eXazTOV 8e )(rjva\a>7TfK0S. 



(ftauKcxs, Alex. Mynd. ibid, ai 8e XeyofKvai (pacrKades piKpa fxei^oves 

 ovo'aL To)v fXLKpMv KoKvpL^iboiV, Tu Xoino. vfjTTais fieri TvapairXricnoi. 



BOYAY'THI. An unknown small bird, mentioned Dion. De Avib. 

 iii. 2, with epithet aadevrj^. 



BOYKOAI'NH- KiyKXoi, to opveov, Hesych. 



BOY'TAAII. [Said to be from ^ov- intens., and ToXaco (?)]. 

 The Nightingale, in Aesop 235. 



BPE'NOOI. An unknown bird, or birds, opveov IBpevdos, omp evioi 



Kucr(Tv(j)ou Xeyovcri, Hesvch. 



Arist. H. A. ix. li, 615 a ^pivdos [MS. Vat. ^pivdos] Iv to7s opea-i Kni 

 rfj vXr] KaTuiKil. fv^ioTos eVri KoX oJSiKo? [mentioned with e7ro\|/']. Ibid. 

 ix. I, 609 a, a sea-bird, noX€p,ioi 8e ol otto t^s BnXaTTtjs ^aivres aXXr/Xois, (ilov 

 ^pfvdos Km Xdpos Koi apnr}. In this latter passage, fipiv6o<; is perhaps 

 a later interpolation ; cf. branta, the Brent Goose. 



BPHTO'I* aX^KTpv(x>v eviavaios, Hesych. 



BY'AI (v. 1. ^pvai), for /3u/^as : Mod. Gk. pnovcpos, Lat. dudo, It. 6li/o, 

 Sp. l/u/10, O. H. G. i^wo, Germ. uhu. [Cf. Lith. bub-auii, to 

 shriek, Fick i. 685, ii. 620.] 



An Owl, especially the Eagle Owl, Strix bubo, L., Bubo maxi- 

 nius, Bonap. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 59^ b ecrri 5' 6 jSi'a? Triv pev tdeau opoios yXavKi, 

 TO fie ptyedos cUtou ov8fv fXaTTav. A favourite word of Dion Cassius, 

 usually as a bird of evil omen, e.g. Ivi. 29 I3vns ((iv^e, also xl. 17, 47, 

 xlii. 26, 1. 8, liv. 29, Ivi. 45, Sic. Cf. Bubo, Virg. Aen. iv. 462, and Serv. 

 in loc., Plin. x. (12) 16, Ovid, Met. v. 550, vi. 431, x. 453, xv. 791, Seneca, 

 Here. F. 686, &c. 



The Owl, bubo, in medicine and magic, Plin. xxix. 26 and 38 ; its egg 

 also is valuable, but difficult to obtain : quis enim, quaeso, ovum 



