BITTAKOI— rEPANOZ 4I 



BYAZ {continued). 

 bubonis unquam videre poterit, quum ipsam avem vidisse prodigium 

 sit? 



The Eagle Owl is not rare in Greece (v. d. Miihle, Lindermayer), 

 and is still called unoiKpos or yov^i. 



BY'ZA = (Suits. Nic. ap. Anton. Lib. 10, where the daughters of 

 IMinyos are metamorphosed into wKTepls (of. Ov. Met. iv. 415), 



yXav^, and /3i^^a' i'cpvyov de (il rpels rfjv avyrjv tov i'jXlov. Also Pocrca 

 := AfvKodeas opvis, Boios ap. Ant. Lib. 15. Also Pu^aarpia, 

 Herodian, 479. (Hence jSvCdvTiov, Curt.) 



BY'TGAN- tov ^jrdpa, Hesych. 



BQ'KKAAII, s. pdpKaXis. A small bird, mentioned with a-vKoXis and 

 others in a list of presents to the Indian king, Ael. xiii. 25. 



BfiMOAO'XOZ. A little Jackdaw. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24) 617 b rpiTOP yivos tu>v koXoicov 6 fiiKpos, 6 /3a)/J.o\d;(oy. 



See KoXoios. 

 rAYZAAl'THI' opveov, mipa 'ivbols, Hesych. 



fE'PANOI, 17 (6 ap. Theophr. Sign, i ; enUoivov tw yeVet, Suid.). Also 

 yeprjv, Hesych. ; yeprjv fj 6i]Xua y^pavos {?), Ael. Dion. ap. Eust. 231. 

 35 (175); cf. Lob. Prol. p. 49. 



Etymology doubtful : according to Curtius, from rt. gar, to cry. 

 Cf. Uith.. gamy, Bret, garan, O. H.G. chranuli, Germ. Kra/iich, Kran, 

 Armen. JCf'unk, Eng. crane: without the n in L. grits, lAth, ger-vc, 

 O. SI. geraw', Russ. zurawl (v. Edl., &c.). 



The Crane. Ardca grus, L., Gnis cinereus, auctt. Mod. Gk, 

 •yepavdy, ytpdv (Heldr.). The Crane is in Greece a bird of pas- 

 sage only, chiefly seen on its journey northward in the spring 

 (cf. Strab. i. 2. 28): it breeds further north, in Macedonia (hence 

 gnies Strymoniae, Virgil, Seneca, Martial, Claudian, &c. ; s. Bis- 

 toniae, Antip. Sidon. cv, Lucan, &c.) and on the Danube (Kriiper, 

 p. 267). In Horn, ykpavo^ doubtless includes the Stork also, the 

 latter bird not being mentioned, though equally common in the 

 Troad (Schliemann, Ilios, p. 113). 



Description. — fioKpov 6;(f( to pvyxps, Arist. H. A. i. I, 486b. tov 

 TpaxqXov paKpov, id. De Acoust. 800 b ; cf. Prov. (pdpvyya avrm paKpo- 

 Tepou yepiifov yiviaOai rjv^aTO Tis o'^ocpdyas, id. Nic. Etll. iii. 13, I18, &C. 

 An uncomplimentary description, Athen. iv. 131 E. In colour, Tefppu 

 (ashy, cinereous, cf. Babr. Ixv. Ij, peXdvTepn yrjpd'jKovaa rd nrfpd iV;(fi, 



