KAAANAPOI— KATPEYZ 75 



KATAPPAKTHI {continued). 



169. In Aristotle, said to be a sea-bird, but not web-footed: mentioned 

 as o'pi/tf iroTuiJLioi, Aristoph. H. A. Epit. i. 24, and BnKaa-aio^, ib. i. 23. 



Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 tov a-Tofiaxov i)(ii evpvu Knl nXnrvv o\ov. Ib. ix. 

 12, 615 opvis (r\i(^('iTTovs' (fi pev nfpl 6d\aTTav, orav de Kndj] avrov fis to 

 ^adv, fJLfvei xpo^o" ^^'^ fXaTTOva rj oaov TtXedpov SieX^oi ris' eori 8' '{Karrov 

 iepoKos. From this account and from its mention in ii. 17, between 

 TO. (r;(i^on-oSa (cort'y) and ra (jTfyavoiroda {Xcipns), Aubert and Wimmer 

 identify KarappdKTrjs with Podiceps auritus, the Eared Grebe, Mod. Gk. 

 KapnnaTaiKiov (Erh. p. 48) ; Sundevall, on the other hand, with the Little 

 Cormorant, F/ia/acrocorax or Graculus pygmaeiis (vide koXoios, j3). 

 Neither of these birds, however, suggests by its habits the name 

 KnTappuKTt]s : and neither is white in colour, so that they at least conflict 

 with the following excerpt from Dion. De Avib. ii. 2 as oi rav Xdpoiv eXda- 

 (Tovfs, Icrxvpos 6e Kcii tijv xp(>('-'' XevKos, Ka\ tols ras (pdaaas avaipni'triv iepa^i 

 Trpoadpoios . . . fls tov ttovtov oia mnTcov otcrerat , . . tois aKone\ois Kai tois 

 alyiaXols ecpiCdvei. Further, a fabulous account of the breeding-habits. 

 According to the same author (iii. 22) aaviaiv flKovas iinypd^avTis Ixdvoav 

 drjpSxTt Tovs KUTappdKTas' avv opprj yap ws eni Tiva KUTanTdvTes IxQvv 

 TTfpipprjyvwTai Ta'is aaviai Ka) diacjidflpovTai. These accounts are usually 

 applied to the Gannet or Solan Goose, Si//a basscuia (cf Oedmann, Act. 

 Acad. Stockh., vii. 1786, Schneid. in Arist. vol. ii. p. 88) ; but the size 

 is incompatible with such an identification, and the bird is not a native 

 of Greece. The account in Piin. x. (44) 51 is wholly fabulous, and 

 includes the story of the Birds of Diomede, ot KaTapdaaovdiv els tcis 

 rwv jBap^dpaf KecpaXds, Arist. De Mirab. 79, 836 a; cf. Ael. i. I, and 

 vide s. V. epwSio's. 



Gesner, who is followed in modern ornithological nomenclature and 

 by the lexicographers, identified KaTappaKTTjs with the Skua, Lestris 

 catarrJiactes, L., a bird which does not occur in the Mediterranean. 



KATPEY'I. An unknown or mystical bird. 



Cleitarch. fr. 18, ap. Ael. xvii. 23 fieyedos Trpos tov Tau>v' to. de uKpa 

 t5)V TTTepMV eoiKe aptipdybco Kai opwv p,ev ciXXcos, ovk oiBns o'iovs o(j)6aX- 

 fiovs e'xei' el 8e ds ae dni8oi, ipe'is Kivvd&apiv to oppa, k.t.X. Cf. Strabo, 

 XV. i. 69. Nonn. Dion. xxvi. 206 KUTpevs S' eaaopevoio ■npoOeam.^ei j^utrti/ 

 opj3pov I ^ai'do(f)vr]S Xiyv(f>a>vos' diro ^Xecfidpwv 8e oi uiyXr] \ irepneTat, up- 

 6pivfjat. jSoXatj avTippoTros i]ovs. \ TToXXdKi 8 TjvepoevTOS vnep SeVSpoto 

 Xiyaiiayv, \ crvvdpovos oipioivos nvenXeKe yevrova poXni^v \ (poiviKeats nrepv- 

 yecrai KSKaapevos' rj Tdxn (f)alt]S, \ peXnopevov KaTprjOS edoiov vpvov duovuiv, \ 

 opOpiov aloXobeipov dri^ova Kcopov v(paivei.v. 



The description of the plumage in Aelian has suggested to some 

 commentators the Manal or Impeyan Pheasant, Lophopiis iinpeyanus 

 (cf. Val. Ball, Ind. Antiq., xiv. 305, 1885), which bird is very possibly 



