8o A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KHE {coniinuecP). 



6ii\a(raiov TrapanXrjcriov ^eXtdovi,' eVioi He Xdpop avrov \eyovcnv, o'l he n'lQviav. 

 Cf. Hesych. kt}^' 6 \apos kotu 'ATn'wi/a. Xeyerai 8e Kal Knvr]^, rives Kcii 

 a'ldviav a7To8i86aaiv' ol 6e K€tt(J)ov' oi 8e 8ii(f)€poiTa dWi'jXoov. 



Usually identified with the Gannet, Su/a bassana, L. (vide s. v. 

 KaTappaKTTjs), which does not occur, s^ve by the rarest chance, in 

 Greece. Among other more than dubious hypotheses, Netolicka 

 (Naturh. aus Homer, p. 14), with whom Buchholz, Korner, and others 

 agree, suggests the Great Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristattis, L., whose 

 cry is keck, keck. (Cf. s. v. kt]u|.) 



KHPY'AOI, s. KTjpvXos, s. KeipvXos (Ar. Av. 300), s. KrjpvXXos (Eustath. ad 

 Horn.), s. KipvXos (Hesych.). A doubtful, perhaps foreign, word, 

 sometimes applied to the Halcyon, sometimes compared with it. 

 Sundevall's identification of KrjpvXos with a second species which 

 occurs in Greece, Alcedo {Ceryle) rudis, the Smyrna Kingfisher, 

 is quite untenable, the poetical and mythical use of both KrjpvXos 

 and dXKvav being opposed to so concrete an interpretation. 

 The suggested connexion with Lat. cocrukus (O. Keller, Lat. 

 Etym., 1893, p. 15) is in equal degree improbable. 



Alcman, 12 (20) ^aXe 61}, jSdXe KtjpvXos e'irjv, \ os t enl Kvnaros avdos Sfi 

 okKvovecrai norrjTai | vjjXees fjTop e\a)i> aXinopCJivpos e'lapos opvis. Cf. S. V. 

 dXnrop<}>upis. 



Mosch. iii. 41 ov8e Toaov yXavKois ev\ Kvpaai. KrjpvXos a8ev. Arist. H. A. 

 viii. 3) 593 b nepl t!]V ddXarrav Koi aXKvoiV Kal KrjpvXos. Ael. V. 48 aXKvoi/a 

 Koi KrjpvXov TTodovvras aXXr^Xcav TrdXcii 'icrp^ev. lb. VU. I7 KijpvXos Kal dXKvav 

 ojxcovvpoi Koi avtx^wi, Ka\ yrjpa ye Trapeipevovs avTOvs enifiepevai al dXKvnves 

 Trepuiyovaiv sttI tSiv KaXovpevcov fxeuoTiTepvyluiv. Cf. Antig. H. Mirab. 

 23 (27), where KrjpvXoi is said to be the male kingfisher ; cf. also 

 Hesych. KrjpvXos' ("iparji' opns avvovaiaariKos, Tires Se aXKi'drn : also 

 Tzetzes ad Lye. 387 ; Schol. Ar. Av., Schol. Theocr. vii. 57 ; Eustath. 

 ad Horn. II. i. 558. In Clearch. ap. Athen. x. 332 E, numbered among 

 Tois upviOas Tovs TropeuSiacrra? KaXovjievovs, with Tpo-)(iXos and 6 rfj KpeKi 

 7rpoaep.(f)epf]s f'pa>8i6s. Mentioned also by Archilochus, fr. 121 ap. Ael. 

 xii. 9 KiyKXos — icive'l 8e Kal ra oiipala nrepdj uxrnepovv 6 napd t(o Ap)(i.X6xa> 

 KijpvXos. 



In Ar. Av. 299, usually written KeipvXos, as if from Keipo). Cf. infra 



S. v. CTTVOpYlXoS. 



The names and attributes of KrjpvXns are undoubtedly akin to those of 

 Kfipis or Ciris ; and it is interesting to note that, according to Hesy- 

 chius, the name Kelpis applies either to a hawk or to the Halcyon. 

 I would place the legend of dXKvcov and KrjpvXos side by side with the 

 astronomic parable of Haliaetus and Ciris. Vide s. vv. dXideros, Kipis. 



