KIPKOI— KIXAH SS 



KHZ A [continued'). 



8e Tr]v veoTTiav eVt Tci)v Bevdpcav fK rpixaiv Kni iploiv : makes a Store of 

 acorns, orav 8 vnoXlncocriv ai ^ukavoi, dnoKpinrToiKra TafiuveTai. lb. ix. 20, 

 617 a, is the size of l^o^opos, the Missel-Thrush. 



Its garruHty : Alexid. Thras. i (3, 420 Mein.) XaXiarepnu ov Kirrav, 

 ovt' dr]86v ovT€ Tpvyora; Lyc. 1319 ti)v XuKrjdpov Kiaanv ; and imitative 

 faculty, Ael. vi. 19, Plut. De Sol. Anim. p. 973 C, Dion. De Avib. i. 18, 

 Plin. X. 42 (59), Porph. De Abst. iii. 4; hence Kuraa^i^a, Poll. v. go. How 

 it is caught with a springe and bait of olive, Dion. De Avib. iii. 18. 

 Mentioned also in frr. Antiph. 3. 145, Anaxand. 3. 185, Mnesim. 3. 

 570 (Meineke). According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. 9, one of the 

 Emathides, daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird Kiaaa^ 

 cf. Ovid, Met. v. 294, 663 ; Mart. Ep. xiv. 76 ; Pers. Prol.; Plin. x. 33, 



Sundevall supposes the Magpie (which is very much rarer in Greece 

 than the Jay) to have been meant, but the description tallies much 

 better with the Jay, which still retains the name. The Magpie is now 

 called KcipaKi'i^a (Heldr.). In Italian, gazza, chcca, cecca, pica, &c., 

 apply both to the Magpie and to the Jay, as very possibly KtVfra also 

 did in Greek. Pliny (x. 29) gives an accurate account of the Magpie, 

 describing it as a variety oi pica of recent advent to the neighbourhood 

 of Rome. 



KI'IIIPII, Suid., KiCTipcis, Hesych. An unknown bird. 

 Kl'XAH. Dor. Ktx'/M (Ar. Nub. 339, Epicharm. in Athen. ii. 64 f (68)). 

 A Thrush : the generic term including iXicts s. iXXds, i^oPopos, 



Tpixas, q. V. The root appears in Russ. kwickzol, a thrush, 



with which ouzel is perhaps cognate. Mod. Gk. T^rjxXa. Cf. 



also ix^ci) icrxXa. 



Mentioned in Od. xxii. 468 Kixkai TuwainTepoi. Homer is said to 

 have received a present of klxKhi for reciting a certain poem, hence 

 called 'ETTi/ctx^iSfy: Menaech. ap. Athen. ii. 65 b. 



Description.— Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, ix. 22, 617 b, is as large 

 as Tivyapyoi, and a little larger than iiaXaKOKpavevs. lb. ix. 49 B. 632 b 

 /x6Ta/3(jXXft 8e Koi f] kIxXt] to ;^pwjua* tov pkv yap ;^ft^&)i'o9 yj/apd, tov Sf 

 6epovs TToiKiXa ra nep\ tov avxeva i(r;^ei' TJjf pevToi (pwvijv ovdev fifTa- 

 ^dXXeL. Cf. Ael. xii. 28. This would suggest a confusion of species : 

 the more variegated birds being Fieldfares and Redwings ; the latter 

 are said to occur in large flocks in Spring (v. d. Miihle), though all 

 alike have departed by Summer. Its song alluded to, Ar. Ach. 11 16 

 norepou dKpiSes TJ8i6i> eaTiv, *] KixXni ; Ar. Pax 531) &c. 



Westing. — Builds in a spray of myrtle, daXXov fivpplvr]?, or places one 

 in the nest for a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile, De An. 723, Geopon. xv. I, 19, 

 Anatol. p. 298 : cf. Fab. Aes. 194. A different account, Arist. H. A. 

 vi. I, 559 "' ^^ KixXai veoTTidv fieu noiovvTai axmep al x^Xibdves e/c nrjXni 



