lo8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KYKNOI {coHiimmr-',. 



it stood in mid-heaven at the rising of the Pleiad ; at its own rising, 

 the Virgin (Leda) was in mid-heaven, and the twins Castor and Pollux 

 were just setting in the west. The stories of Cycnus, son of Mars 

 (Hesiod, Anton. Lib. 12, Philochor. ap. Athen., Ovid, Met., &c.), of 

 Cycnus, King of Liguria (Hygin. Fab. 144), Cycnus, brother of Phaethon 

 (Lucian, De Electro, Virg. Aen. x. 189), and others, which are also 

 similarly connected with astronomical myths, lie outside the scope of 

 this book. Cf. (int. al.), Dupuis, Orig. de tous les cultes, iii. p. 813, vii. 

 p. 367- 



KY'MBH. A very doubtful bird. nTtpoj^dnoves K^nlBai, Emped. 188. 

 Supposed by L. and S. to be a Tumbler-pigeon ; but cf. K0fi|3a, 



supra. Hesych. has Kv^fiaC opvides : also KU/M/3[ar]et;rai- uppL6(VTai. 



KY'MINAII = xa^Kis= (?) TTTOYi q. v. Kv^iv8is in some MSS., both of 

 Horn, and Arist., cf. J. G. Schneider in Arist., vol. iv. p. 92. 

 Hesych. has KvjSrjvais' y\av^\^ais~\, query Kv^rivBis : also KvMvav 

 TTjv yXaiiKa, query Kv^rjva. See also s. v. KiKKajSt]. An unknown 

 or fabulous bird ; perhaps an Owl. 



II. xiv. 290 opvidi Xiyvpfj evaXiyKioS) rjv t iv oparuiv \ )(a\K'iha KiKkrjaKOvai 

 6(01, av8pes 8e Kvpiv8iv. 



Ar. Av. 1 181 X«Pf' ^^ ''■"S' Tin ovvxas T]yKv\uip.(vos, | Kepxvjjs, Tpiopxrjs, yv\j/, 



Kvfxiv8is, aleros. Mentioned likewise among the rapacious birds, Ael. 

 xii. 4. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 12, 615 b oXiyaKis fiev CJ^aiverciL, oiKel yap oprj, eari Be 

 pLfXas, Koi peyfdos o<jov lepa^ o (paaaofpouos KoKovpevos, kol rrjv i8eav paKpos 

 Koi XeTTTos. Kvpivhiv 8e KaXoicriv "laves avrrjV : the passage is very cor- 

 rupt, and according to some texts (followed apparently by Pliny, x. 8, 

 and by Eustath. in Hom.), the next clause concerning v^pU or Trruyl 

 applies to the same bird, 17 8' v^pts, (fjaal 8e TLves elvai rhv avrov ToiiTov 

 opvida TW TTTvyyi, ovtos rjptpas pev ov (paivtrai 8ia to prj ^Xeneiv o^v, ras 8e 

 vvKTas drjpevei aanfp ol aerot [01 oaroi, cj. Sundevall], Ka\ paxpvTat. 8e npos 

 Tov d(Tuv ovTco a(f)68pn uxtt apcfxo Xap^dveadai noWaKis ^avras vno rSiv 

 vopeoov. TiKTfi pev ovv 8vo wti, veoTrevei 8e Koi ovtos iv ntTpais Koi anrjXaiois. 

 Conjectured by Sundevall to be the Black or Glossy Ibis, from the 

 suggestion of metallic colouring in x«^<'S') and from Mod. Gk. x^-^kokotq, 

 Erh. ; but this is certainly not a bird of the mountains, and the 

 supposed derivation from xa^^o's is imaginary. By Aub. and Wimmer, 

 and others, ascribed to the Capercailzie, Tetrao urogallus, L. 

 Usually taken to be a large Owl (cf. Suidas, x^^'^'fj «'^of opveov, ^ 

 yXav^, cf. Schol. Ar. Av. 262), as by Belon, Gaza, and other older 

 naturalists. Cuvier (Grandsaigne's Pliny, I. v. 11, pp. 374, 375) identi- 

 fies it with the Hawk Owl, S/r/x tmi/c^sts, Pall., and Netolicka agrees. 



