KYKNOI— KY^EAOZ 



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KYMINAII {contmued). 



The bird being, in Homer, that in whose shape "Ytti/o? appears, is an 

 additional point in favour of identifying it with a nocturnal species : and 

 this relation of v-nvos to the bird ;^;aXKiV suggests a connexion with the 

 phrase ;^d\*reos {/tti/oj. xp^*^^^ belongs to the language of the gods, that 

 is to say, is probably a foreign word ; it is not likely to be a simple 

 derivative of xo^ko?. Is there a possible alternative that x"^'^^^^ vttj/o? 

 is wrongly translated hy ferreus somnusl 



For an account of various Scholia relating to this bird, cf. J. G. 

 Schneider, I. c. In some, if not all, of the names of this bird, we are 

 undoubtedly confronted with foreign words. 



KYFIAPTZZIA" ffSoy oK^Krpvovwv, HeS}xh. Query Kvnapicrcrioi. 



KY XPAMOZ. MSS. have Kixpafxas, Kixpai^os, Kexpo-H"^^ '• Hesych, Kvy- 



xpavos, Kiyxpafxas : Schn. writes Keyxpafios {Kfyxpo^) 3.S Belon 

 translates 7niliarius. 



An unknown bird : probably (as Sundevall takes it) identical with 

 opTuyofii^Tpa, the Corncrake, Rallus crex, L. One or both 

 names doubtless apply also to the Water-rail, Ralliis aquaiicus, 

 L., which is very abundant in Greece, and according to Von der 

 Miihle abandons its usual haunts in Autumn and frequently 

 associates with the quails (op. cit., p. 92). 



Arist. H. A. viii. 12, 597 b. A bird which accompanies the quails, 

 Acai avaKoXe'iTOL avrovs vvKToyp' Koi orav tovtov rrjv <^(xivi)v ctKoixraxTiv, ol 

 drjpevovTfs 'lanaiv ort ov Karapevovcriv \^ol oprvyes^ : which expression 

 Sundevall translates ' delay not their coming,' and A. and \V. ' remain 

 no longer.' Cf. Plin. x. (23) 33. 



KYVeaoi, s. KuiJ/eXXos. A bird of the Swallow kind ; perhaps the 

 Sand-Martin^ Hirwido riparia, L. Hesych. Kvyj/e'Kos' opvis Troidr, 

 opoios x^^i-^ovi. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 30, 680, mentioned as synonymous with oitt-ous, q. v., 

 opoioi TOCs ;(6AtSocrii/' ov yap pa8iov diaypcovai irpos rrjV ;^eXt8oj/a, TrKrjv T<a 



T}]v Kvrjprjv e;(eii' 8a<Taav : cf Plin. X. (39) 55. In the description of the 

 nest (loc. cit.), though fcvx/^eXi? (a box, or beehive) would rather suggest 

 the nest of the House-Martin (N. ttrbica, L.), yet the epithet poKpos 

 would certainly not apply : moreover the House-Martin was certainly 

 included in ;(eXtScoi/. Accordingly the evidence leans to identifying 

 KUA/zeXof with the Sand-Martin, H. rtparia, L. ; this identification is 

 followed by Sundevall, while A. and W., on the contrary, identify the 

 bird with the House-Martin. There was doubtless a confusion of 

 species. If the passage in Pliny suggests one more than another, it 

 would seem to be the Swift ; yet in the Aristotelian reference the 



