50 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOKKYH {contmtied). 



iVTiKTiiv. See also Arist. De Gen. iii. i, 750, Ael. iii. 10, Theophr. Caus. 

 PI. ii. 18, 9, Dion. De Avib. i. 13, Plin. x. (9) 26, Phile, De An. Pr. 

 xxiv. 



A species that builds its own nest : Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 564 I'forreuei 

 ykv'^i Ti nvro)V noppco Kni iv awoToixots neTpats. [lb. vi. I, 559) hokkv^ 

 probably for kottv^oj]. 



The Cuckoo is said by Kriiper (p. 184) to lay in Greece chiefly in 

 the nest of Sylvia orphea, and also of the species of Saxicola. Coccystes 

 glandarius, the Great Spotted Cuckoo, which also occurs in Greece, 

 (Mod. Gk. Kpavos), lays in the nests of the Jackdaw, Magpie and Crow. 

 The repeated statement that kokkv^ lays in the nest of (pdrra or (f)d\j/ is 

 inexplicable, unless such a statement be of foreign origin and refer 

 originally to some Oriental species ; a little light is perhaps thrown 

 upon the point by the circumstance that in certain Chinese legends 

 the Dove and the Cuckoo are confounded together: vide infra s. v. 

 irepio-Tepd. This discrepancy deprives of all value the attempted 

 identifications of vnoXats, wihch are based on its being some bird in 

 whose nest the Common Cuckoo habitually lays its egg ; see also 



S. V. TrdlTTTOS. 



Migration. — Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 563 b (fxaperai eV dXiyov xpo'^ov tov 

 dfpovs, TOV 8e )(^eiiJ.cova a(f)avi^{Tat. lb. ix. 49 E, 633 /Li6Tn/3dXXet to \pSina 

 Koi Tjj (poovfj [oi] aa(f)ripi((i, orav p-fXkr) dcpavi^eadai' d(pavL^(Tai 8' vno Kvva, 

 (pavepos Se yivfTat mro tov eapos ap^dp.evos p^iXP*- k^^os eViroX^S'. Cf. Ael. 

 iii. 30 opaTat 6 KOKKV^ rjpos VTTnpxopei'ov eh dvaToXds '2eipiov : Dion. De 

 Avib. i. 13 TTpaiTOi TU)V XoiTTWV TTTrjiiaiv rjpHv to tap dyyeWutu. 



Metamorphosis with the Hawk, Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 563 b, ix. 49 B, 633. 

 Cf. Plut. Arat. xxx (i. I041 C) kol KaQdmp Tea KoKKvyl (prjcriv A'la-anros 

 epcoTcoVTi Toiis XfTTToi'S bpvidas, oTi (f^evyoiei) nvTOf, etrrelj/ eKfivovs coy earni 

 TioTe Upa^ (Aes. Fab. 198, ed. Halm). Cf. also Tzetz. ad Lye. 395. 

 See also supra, s. vv. cttov|/, KipKos. 



Other Myths and Legends. — How Jupiter, in the shape of a Cuckoo, 

 sought Hera on Mount Thornax ; and how for this reason the cuckoo 

 figures on Hera's sceptre, Pausan. ii. 17, 4: cf. Schol. ad Theocr, 

 XV. 64 ; hence the mountain was called opos KoKKvymv, Pausan. ii. 36, 1 ; 

 cf. Creuzer, Symb. iii. 248 ; cf. also the Teutonic GaucJisbe7-g, Grimm, 

 D. Myth. p. 646, &c. 



From its propinquity to Sparta, and from the circumstance of the 

 Cuckoo having come in a cloud, Creuzer (1. c.) conjectures an allusion 

 to the same story in Ar. Av. 814; cf. also the weather prophecy in 

 Hesiod, 1. c. 



How the Cuckoo was king over Egypt and Phoenicia, Ar. Av. 504. 

 In these latter statements we have evidence of a confusion with the 



