ITO A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KYvl»EAOI {continued). 



hypothesis of the Sand-Martin, advocated by Sundevall, has strong 

 claims. 



Kii'KAAOI- Kco/caXoi/- eiSof oKiKTpvuvo^^ Hesych. Cf. S. V. XoKttXos. 

 Kf2NnnO0H'PAI" o/jvis 6 Kcoj/coTrar 6r\pivix>v^ Hesych. 



KQTIAA'Z. The Swallow. A Boeotian word. Anacr. 99 ; Strattis, 

 ^oif. 3; cf. Simonid. 243. 



AAfOGH'PAI- Hesych., aerov dho^. ■= Xayoxlxjp'os = fieXai'deTOS (q. v.). 

 An epithet of the Eagle. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 618 b. The Eagle in combat with the hare is 

 frequent on gems, and on coins of Agrigentum, Messana, Elis, &c. : cf. 

 Imhoof-Blum. and Keller, passim ; Keller, Th. d. cl. Alterth., p. 449. 

 The wide occurrence of this subject (cf. Layard, Nineveh, ii. pi. 62) 

 indicates a lost mythological significance, in which one is tempted 

 to recognize a Solar or Stellar symbol ; vide s. vv. deros, Kopa^. 



AArflAl'AI. A synonym of utos, Alex. INIynd. ap. Athen. ix. 390. 



AArnrNHI- o/jny TToioi, Hesych. 



AArfl'nOYI. A Ptarmigan. 



Plin. X. (48) 68 praecipuo sapore lagopus : pedes leporino villo nomen 

 ei hoc dedere, cetero candidae, columbarum magnitudine, &c. The 

 lagois, s. logois of Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 22, is possibly akin. In Mart. vii. 87, 

 an old reading was Si meus aurita gaudet lagopode Flaccus, altered by 

 Scaliger io glaucopzde. 



AAfii'l. A bird-name, mentioned with the Swallow, in Artemid. 

 Oneirocr. iv. 56. The name suggests a reference to bnavnovs: 

 Xf><i86veios, Diph. s. Calliad. ap. Athen. ix. 401 a. According to 

 Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xx a certain Oreius was metamor- 

 phosed into the bird Xayws, oppis in ovhev\ (f)aiv6n€vos dya6(p. 



AAEAO'I (MSS. also Xaibos, Xi/3doj). A bird, in all probability identical 



with Xa'ios, q. v. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 610 \a(86i Kn\ KeXeor (fiiXoi. 6 St Xaedos irirpas xni 

 opT] \olKfi\, Kn\ (piXo^Mpe'i ov av oiKtj. 



We may connect the reputed friendship of KeXeos and XaeSoV with 

 the association of KeXeos and Xa'ios together, in the obscure story of the 

 metamorphosis of those impious persons who entered the forbidden 

 cave in Crete where Jupiter was born ; Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xix. 



AAI"0'I. Probably the Blue Thrush, Peirocichla cyaniis, L. The 

 Stone-thrush, P. saxatilis, L., is less common in Greece, and 



