KOKKYE - KOAOIOI 89 



KOKKYH {coiitimied). 



Hoopoe, vide s. vv. 67roi|/, KouKOu4)a ; for the relations between the 

 Cuckoo and the Hoopoe, Der Kuckuk und sein Kiister, v. Grimm. 1. c. 



On the mythology of the Cuckoo, see also {mt. al.) Von Mannhardt, 

 Zeitsch. f. d. Myth. iii. pp. 209-298 ; Hardy, Pop. Hist, of the Cuckoo, 

 Folk-lore Record, pt. ii ; Hopf, Orakelthicre, p. 152. 



How the Amphisbaena, alone among serpents, appears before the 

 Cuckoo is heard, i.e. in early spring, Plin. xxx. (10) 25; a magic 

 remedy for fleas, Plin. 1. c. ; a Cuckoo in a hare-skin, a remedy for 

 sleeplessness, Plin. xxx. (15) 48 ; the Cuckoo as food, Plin. x. 9; cf. 

 Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 564 (spurious passage). 



KO'AAPII. Vide S. v. KciXapis. 



KOAAYPl'flN, s. KopvW'im', Hesjxh. An undetermined bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b ra avra (a6Ui rw KOTTv(p(p . . . aXlaKerai Se 

 Kara ^(iifxatva fidXiara. Is of a size with kottv^os, ndpSaXos, fJ-dXaKOKpavevS, 

 xXapi'cov. 



Belon's unsupported hypothesis of the Sluike (Observ. ii. 98) is 

 handed down in the modern scientific name of Lmihis coUiirio. 

 BufiTon, quoted by Camus, ii. p. 238, says (Hist. Des Ois. ii. p. 70) that 

 in Mod. Gk. the Shrike is called KoXXvplcov ; there is no recent 

 evidence of this. Gloger suggests with more probability, Tu^dits 

 pihifis, L., the Fieldfare, 



KOAOIO'I, a. The Jackdaw. Corvus ?nonedula, L. Root very doubtful. 



jMod. Gk. AcoXoto'?, KaXoiaKov8a. Hcsych. KoXoios' \opviov\ 6 ov Tuxn 

 opdrai iv AXe^avSpfia : also, KoXoioi' CTKonres, piKpiu KopSivai. 



II. xvi. 583 ; xvii. 755 '^opaiv vecpos epxerai rje KoXoiaiv, | o^Aoi' KfKXtjyovTfs. 

 In regard to the Jackdaw's cry, cf. Pind. N. 3, 143 (78) koXoioI Kpayirai : 

 Antip. Sid. 47 KoXoiav Kpa>yp6s : J. Poll. vi. 13 koXoiovs KXa^fiv : hence 

 the verb KoXoidco, Poll. v. 89. 



Frequent in Aristophanes; Av. passim, Ach. 875, Vesp. 129, Eq. 

 1020, &c. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b ('Idrj rpia' KopaKias, Xukos, Pw|j.oX6xos, q. v. 

 lb. ii. 17, 509 Tu iTpos Ti]v KoiXiav re'ivov exei evpv Ka\ nXarv. Its claws 

 are weaker than those of bpvoKoXaTTrrjs, ib. ix. 9, 614 (here Schneider, 

 followed by Sundevall, would read for koXoiwv, koXiuiv s. KfXtcbv). De 

 Gen. iii. 6, 756 b 17 toIs pvyxeai els aXXrjXa Kuivcovia dijXou enl rav ridaaevo- 

 fiivav KoXoiiiv. 



How the Jackdaw, a victim to sociality, is caught with a dish of oil, 

 into which, looking at his own reflection, he falls ; Ael. iv. 30, 

 Athen. ix. 393 b, Dion. De Avib. iii. 19. Caught also with springes 

 baited with an olive, Dion. ib. iii. 18. 



A weather-prophet, oi koXoio\ (k tuv v^a-av Trerop-tvoi toIs •yecopyois- 



