MEAAMnvrOZ— MEAEArPIZ II5 



MEAEArPlI {continued). 



Arist. H. A. vi. 2, 559 KnTta-Tiy^iiva ra coa ra>v fiiKfaypi^oov : cf. Aristoph. 

 H. A. Epit. i. 28 cpa darepaTa. 



See also the description given by Columella, viii. 8, 2 Africana est 

 quam plerique Numidicam dicunt, meleagridi similis, nisi quod rutilam 

 galeam (paleam, emend. Newton) et cristam capite gerit, quae utraque 

 sunt in meleagride coerulea. This passage from Columella is very 

 interesting as showing that the Greek peXeaypis and the Roman Gallitia 

 africana or ntanidica were different from one another, the latter having 

 a red wattle, the former a Mice. This would look as though the peXea- 

 ypls had sprung from what is now called Nmnida ptilorhyncha, an 

 Abyssinian species, and had been brought to Athens by way of Egypt ; 

 while the Afra avis originated in the Ntcmida meleagris of W. Africa. 

 See Newton, Diet, of Birds, p. 399, footnote. 



The iieXeaypi^es mentioned, however, by Scylax, Periplus, were seen 

 beyond the Pillars of Hercules, in N. W. Africa, as were those men- 

 tioned by Mnaseas ; and these were doubtless, therefore, of the red- 

 wattled species. Strabo and Diodorus report the birds as inhabiting 

 an island in the Red Sea ; Sophocles (1. c), speaks of them poetically 

 as Indian. 



Mentioned as sacred birds, Clyt. Miles. 1. c. nepl 6e to lepov Trjs 

 Ilapdevov iv Aepco el(TLV 01 KoKovpivoi opvtdes fj.eXfaypi.des. AlsO in 



Aetolia, Menodot. ap. Athen. xiv. 655 a. 



Ael. iv. 42 : the metamorphosis of the sisters of Meleager ; oaoi 



te apa alSovvrai to Be'iov Ka\ paWov el rrjV "ApTepiv, ovk av noTe Ta)p8f 

 tSdv opvidciov enl Tpo<l)r]v Trpocrd'^aiVTO, Koi ^tis 17 atria laacri re ol Trjv vrjcrov 

 olKovvres ttju Aepov /cat everrri p.a6e'iv dWaxpQev. lb. V. 2/ to? 8 ev Aepco 

 fieXeaypiSas otto jxriSepos dSiKeicrdai Ta>v yap.\lfa)Vv)(cov opveav Xeyei IcTTpos. 



Sacrificed at the temple of I sis in Tithorea (Phocis), Pausan. x. 31 

 (x. 32, 9, ed. Teubn.). 



Were kept also in the Acropolis : peXeayplba' opveLs al ivepovro iv 

 Tfj aKpoTToXei, Hesych. opvea anep evefxovTO ev rrj dKporroXei' Xeyovai 8e 

 ot fiev dSeX^a? tov MeXeaypov perajBaXe'iv els Tas peXenypidns opvidas, 01 

 8e Tas (TVVTjdeis 'loxaXXi'Sof ttjs ev Aepvrj napdevov, rjv Tifiwai daip-oviuis, 

 Suid., Phot. 



On the story of the metamorphosis, cf. Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. 

 c. I, Hygin. Fab. 174, Ovid, Met. viii. 534, Mart. iii. 58, 15, Lactant. 

 viii. 4. 



How the Meleagrides fought around the tomb of Meleager (cf. s. v. 

 li.i\i.v(av) Plin. x. (26) 38, &c. 



For other references, see Antig. Caryst. xi ; Juv. xi. 142 ; Hor. Epod. 

 ii. 53 Afrae aves; Mart. iii. 58, 15 Numidicae guttatae ; xiii. 45 Libycae 

 volucres ; xiii. 75 ; Stat. Silv. i. 6, 78, ii. 4, 28 ; Suet. Calig. 22 (vide s. v. 

 Terpduj'); Petron. 93 ; Varro, De R. R. iii. 9, 1 8, Sec. 



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