yo A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



lAIAZ {continued^. 



are transferred to tXXaj. Both the Redwing and the Fieldfare are 

 now winter-migrants in Greece, and not very common (Kriiper, Linder- 

 niayer, &c.). The word was probably an old or dialectic form, meaning 

 simply thrush, to which it was sought to apply a specific meaning 

 in Aristotle. 



'iMANTO'nOYI. A wading-bird ; the name is now allotted to the 

 Stilt. 



Dion. De Avib. ii. 9 «' S' t/^«»'T<'7ro5e? XfTTToIy \).iv aKfXeai ;(paJvrai, Koi 

 fxovcri rtjp Trpoarjyopiav e'/c tovtov. nauov 8' in avTcov eariv, on Tr\v Karadev 

 yevvv e;^oi'rfs TreTTrj-yvlaVf povov Kivovai rrjv avaBev. Cf. Plin. X. 47 (64)' 



'INAIKO'I "OPNII. The Phoenix (q. v.), Aristid. ii. p. 107; cf. Creuzer, 

 Symbolik, ii. p. 167. 



"INYE" opvfov Ti, (o ;(pcoi/rnt al (papfiaKiba, Hesych. Vide S. V. luy^. 



'lEOBO'POI, or l^o(f)dyos, Athen. 65 a (I'^os = viscu7n, mistletoe, cf. 

 Ital. viscada, the iT//j'j(?/-thrush). 



The Missel-thrush, Turdus viscivonis, L. jMod. Gr. Kipiaplva (v. d. 

 Miihle), ^tvhpoTcrlxka on Parnassus, Kvpa Elprjvr} in Eurytania, 

 f3ovvoTaix>^a in Laconia (Heldreich). The only one of the true 

 thrushes resident in Greece throughout the year (Kriiper). 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 20, 617. Vide s. v. kixXt]. 



innAAEKTPYii N* tov p-eyav aXfKrpvova, rj rov ypa(^6p.(vov eV to'h UfpcriKois 

 Tr€piarTpaip.a(ri. ypafpovrai Se oiop ypvnfs. euioi yvTra, HeSych. 



Cf. Ar. Ran. 932 (959), Pax 11 77, Av. 800 t6u $ov6ov 'nnrakfKTpvopa : 

 cf. Aesch. Myrm. fr. 130, &c., Sic. 



Note. — The epithet ^ou^os- is applied to various creatures, e. g. ar\hwv, 

 okKvav, ;YfXiScoi/, peXicrara, rim^, all of which agree in being closely linked 

 with religious symbolism. The meaning of the adjective is quite un- 

 known. With the various conjectures of modern commentators cf. 

 Photius : ^ovBov' Xenrov, anakov, eXacppov, ;(Xa)poV, vypov, ^avdov, Ka\6v, 

 TTVKvov, o^v, raxy. ol Se TroiKikov, eveides, diavyes. 



in HA PION" opvfov TTOiov, TTitpaTrXrjcriov ;^j;i'aXa)7r€Kt, HeS}ch. 



"inriH, (j. iiriTa, >r. iTrxa, s. irra). 6 dpvnKoka-^, ediaKcos, Hesych. The 

 root is supposed to be m, Lat. z'c-o (Vanicek 82), cf. hos ; and 

 the word is taken to be identical with m'Trw (q. v.) ; but the Irra 

 suggests identity with aiT-nrj. 



Doubtless identical also with iiri'r], Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 21 kuI 

 ecTTiv ayados oiiTos 6 opvis enl Bijpav 'iovri. 



