KOIZY<t>OZ— KYANOI IO3 



KPA'MBnTON' Ikt'ivos to Caoi>, Hcsych. 



KPAYro'l. A ■Woodpecker. dpvoKo^cmrov ftSof, Hesych. : who has 

 also Kpuvyov' notos opvis. Von Edlinger cites Lilh. kraki: cf. 



KPE'E, also KcpKds (Hesych.). A very doubtful bird, usually identified, 

 by Sundevall and others, with the Corn-crake or Land-rail, 

 Ralliis crex, L., Crex pratcnsis^ auctt. = opTuyojxiqTpa ^ Kuxpajjios. 

 The name is lost in Mod. Gk. 



Herod, ii. 76, compared in size with the Ibis. 



Ar, Av. 1 1 38 joirox)^ S' ervKi^ov ai KpeKes to'ls pvyxeiriv. Schol. in Ar, 

 (Suid.) opviov bvcroi6dVi(TTOv tols ydp.ovcnv, o^v izavv to pvy)(Oi kol iTpiovcoBes 

 exoV. cf. Hesych. opveov rt, 6 rots' ynp.ovcnv oloavi^erai' Tacra-erai 8e Koi 

 enl rpoxov [cf. luy^]. As a bird of evil ornen to the newly married, 

 cf. Euphor. 4 (quoted by Tzetzes) ov 6' rjeia-e ydpov kokov €x^'''H--^°^ ^P^^^ 

 and Lycophr. 513, where Helen is dvadpnnyos Kpe^. A messenger of 

 Athene, Porph. De Abst. iii. 5. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b Kpe^ TroXepios i\ecS kol KOTTv(f)cp Knt )(\copici)vi . . . 

 Kai yap avTovs /SAaTTTei nai to. TeKva avTuyv. In Ael. iv. 5 [/oc dub.) 

 Kpe^ is hostile to aWvia: also Phile, De An. Pr. 681, with epithet 

 ^paSvTTTepns. Arist. H. A. ix. 17, 616 b 17 fie Kpe^ TO p.fv rjdos fJLi\ipos, 

 Tt]v 8e didvniav (Vfii])(avos npos top ^iov, aWcos Se KaKonoTiJios opvis. Arist. 

 De Part. iv. 12, 695, mentioned among the long-legged birds with 

 a short hind-toe. 



Kp6§ has been identified, on account of its pugnacitv with the Ruff, 

 Machetes pugnax, L.; but the Ruffs fight with one another {ci. ^i^^vinv), 

 and, moreover, all the accounts of mutual hostilities between birds are 

 unreliable, and in the main mythological. From the size, and the 

 rudimentary hind-toe, the Black-winged Stilt, Himajttopiis rnjipes, 

 Bechst. was suggested first by Belon : its use by Herodotus as 

 a standard of comparison with the Ibis is somewhat in favour of this 

 bird, which is common in Egypt. The identification with the Corn-crake 

 rests mainly on the assumption that the name is onomatopoeic. The 

 facts that the Scholiasts knew little or nothing about the bird, and 

 that the name is lost in Mod. Gk., suggest that the word was perhaps 

 an exotic, and that its meaning was early lost. 



KPirH'- i) y\ai^, Hesych. 



KPI'EI- f} xfAtSo)!/, Hesych. Doubtless corrupt : Meineke suggests 



Kpt[8oi/]esj or Kpi[K]er, Kpl^. 



KY'ANOI. Probably the Wall-Creeper, Tichodroma ?niirana, L. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 21, 617 fioKiaTa iv ^lavpo) [eV ^Kvpa, Ael.] eari, 

 rroifiTat S eni tu>v TreTpS)VTas diaTpi^ds' to 8e fieyfOos KOTTv(pov jj-iv eXiiTTu.i>, 



