I04 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KYANOI {continued). 



ani^ris be fiei^uiv fii<p(o' ixfyakoTrovs Sc, Kcii npos ras nerpas it pocrava^aivd.. 

 Kvavovs oKos' TO 8i pijy\os e^f XtTrrw kol jxaKpov, aKeXrj 6e jSpax^a t>i 

 nina napofioia. 



Ael, iv. 59 °pft^ aTvavdpunros tov Tponov, pucraiv fiev rai dariKcts 8ia- 

 rpi^as KOI Tcis kut oiKiav avXiVeu, . . . ovre rjTreipois (^iXfjSet, otVe vrjaois 

 aya^als' '2Kvpu) Se, Kai e'l tis Toiavrrj irepa I'lyav Xvjrpa kol tiyovos /cat avdpo)- 

 TTuiv XTjpevovcra, ws tci TToXXa. 



The description in Aristotle accords very perfectly with the Wall- 

 Creeper (with which bird Gloger, Sundevall, and Heldreich identify it) 

 as regards habitat, size, feet, and bill, as does Aelian's account of its 

 solitary nature : but the bird is not kvuvovs oXos, nor is Aelian's account 

 of its habitat satisfactory. Aubert and Wimmer on the other hand, 

 following Belon, Gesner, and other older commentators, identify Kvavos 

 with the Blue Thrush (Mod. Gk. neTpoKoaavcfios, cf. infra, s. v. Xai6s)> 

 which agrees with the description in colour, but in little else, and is 

 a very common bird, whereas kCuvos is mentioned as scarce and local. 



KYKNI'AI. An Eagle, white like a swan, at Sipylus near Lake 

 Tantalus, Pausan. viii. 17, 3. 



That Pausanias is here in error is rendered the more probable by 

 the existence in Med. Gk. of the words rCvKveas, rCvKveas, Mod. Gk. 

 TiTiKvtas, meaning a White Heron or Egret. 



The White Eagle of Pythagoras (Iambi. Vit. Pythag. § 132, Ael. 

 V. H. iv. 17) is supposed to be an allegory for the town of Croton, 

 on whose coins an eagle is represented ; cf. O. Keller, op. cit., pp. 238, 

 431- 

 KY'KNOI. (Hesych. has also ku'Sv'os.) Sk. ^ak-imi, a bird ; Bopp, 

 ii. p. 379, cf. Fick in Herzenberger's Beitr. z. I. Gr. Spr., vii. 

 p. 94, 1883 : cf. the Gk. use of opvi^ for the constellation Cygnus 

 (Arat. 275, 599, 628, &c.). 

 A Swan. Mod. Gk. kvkvos, viaKfi.a (Heldr.), and in the Cyclades 

 KoiiXos (Erh.). The Mute Swan, Cygnus olor, Gm., breeds in 

 Greece ; the Hooper or Whistling Swan, C. musiciis, Bechst., 

 is probably only a winter migrant; cf. Heldr., op. cit., p. 56. 



Epithets. — aipamoTTi^, Hes. Sc. H. 316; ax^ra^ (= W'''''?^)) E^r. El. 

 151; ho\\.-)(avxr]v, Eur. (?) I, A. 794 ; SouXixoS^ipoy, II. ii. 460, xv. 692; 

 'tlJLep6(f)ai'os, Christod. Ecphr. 384, \iyv0poos, id. 414, in Gk. Anth. ; 

 fiavTiTToXos, Opp. Cyneg. ii. 547; p.e\a>86^, Eur, I. T. II04; Trord- 

 p.ios, Id. Rh. 618; 7roXio;^pcoj, Id. Bacch. 1364: cf. Ar. Vesp. 1064; 

 vp.vrjTt]p, Pallad. 40, in Gk. Anth. iii. 123; x''°^"XP^^> Eur. Hel. 216. 

 A frequent emblem of whiteness : cf Eur. Rh. 618 o-n'X^ouo-i 8' aarf 

 TTOTuulov KvKvov TTTfpov. [Notc thc frcquent allusions in Euripides ; 



