6o A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



HEPOnOI {coutimtcd). 



transformed into the bird 7]fpoTros, os i'ri vvv riKza fjL(v Inh yri^, aU\ Se 

 fifXera TreTfcrdai. 



'HI'KANO'I- 6 oXfKTpvdov, Vitsych. Cf. kUkos : forle k/kkoi^, Schmidt. 



'HMIO'NION' opvis noLos, Hesych. 



'HPIIA'AnirE* opveov Ti elSos, Hesych. Also epiadXniy^, Callim. Schol. 

 ad Ar. Av. 884. 



GEO'KPONOI. A fabulous bird. 



Dion. De Av. ii. 15 els rav (iiJi(pi[3icov upvldav e'orl kcu 6 deoKpovos, os e^ 

 aerav eivai vodos kcu Upa.Koii' niaTeveTni, k.t.X. 



©PA'H. a water-bird, mentioned with dvr'ivoi and KoXvp^os, Dion. De 

 Avib. ii. 13, iii. 24, q. v. 



GPAYm'l. (dXvTTLs in Cod. INIed. C''. dpanls, dXinls also occur. 



Perhaps identical with yXa-ms, ypa-ms, Hesych.) An unknown 



species of Finch. Cf. J. G. Schneicier in Arist. I.e. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis dKavdo<payos, mentioned with uKcivdis 

 and ;(/jtio"o/^f)T|jts', 



ono'l" opvis TToios, Hesych. 

 "IBINOZ- iuTos, Hesych. 



"IBII, s. Ipis; also tpu^ Hesych., Suid. The Ibis. 



An Egyptian word, da/iti : cf. /u'd or /n'p in copt. vers. Lev. xi. 17 ifor 

 filter A. V. £^rea^ owl\ cf. Is. xxxiv. 11 ; tr. ibis in LXX and Vulg.) ; 

 vide Scholtzii Lex. Aegypt., Oxon. 1775, p. 155. Another Egyptian 

 name leheias still survives as Arab, el hareiz, and is preserved in the 

 following fragment: Albert. Magn. vi. p. 255 Avis autem, quae ab 

 incolis Aegypti secundum Aristotelem ieheras {s. leheras) vocatur, et 

 habet duos modos, et unus illorum est albus et alius est niger. 

 Cf. Gesner, iii. p. 546 Avis (inquit Albertus, de ibide sentiens) quae 

 ab Aegyptiis secundum Aristotelem leheras {s. ieheras) dicitur, secun- 

 dum Avicennam Caseuz vocatur. Cf. Belletete, Annot. ad op. Savigny 

 (infra cit.), p. 39. 



Of the two species of Ibis, the Whits or Sacred Ibis, which was 

 first recognized by Bruce (Travels in Abyss, v. p. 173, 1790) is Tati- 

 taltis aethiopicus, Latham, Ntanenius Ibis, Savigny, or Ibzs religiosa, 

 Cuv. : the Abou Hannes or Father John of the Abyssinians (Bruce), and 

 Abou Mengel or Father Sickle-bill of the fellaheen. The Sacred Ibis 

 still regularly visits Lower Egypt at the time of the inundation, coming 

 from Nubia (cf. Newton, Diet, of Birds, s. v.). Before the time of 

 Bruce's discovery, the name had been variously assigned to several 



