Il8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



NE'PTOI. A Vulture. 



Ar. Av. 303, mentioned together with yv\l/ and i<pa|, Hesych. vepros' 

 Upa^' 01 8e eldos opveov (i.e. a species of vulture). This word, hitherto 



unexplained, I conjecture to be the Egyptian "^ ^ nerf, Copt. 



nCJfpI, a Vulture: cf. Chaeremon, fr. 9, and Lauth, in Horap. i. 3, 

 Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad., 1876, p. 73. 



NH"TTA, Boeot. vacraa (Ar. Ach. 875). A Duck. Cf. Lat. anat-is, 



Lith. antis, A. S. ened, Ger. Ente. Dim. cTjTrdpioi' (a term of 



endearment), Ar. PI. loii, Menand. Inc. 422 (4, 316); vx\x-:\.ov, 



Nicostr. Antyll. 3 (3, 280), See also j3oo-Kds, y^iuxio*', ■n'T)i'€\ov|». 



Description. — Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b included among rh. ^apvnpa 

 tS)p UTeyavonobaiv' nepl Trora/ious Koi Xifivas iar'iv ; ibid. ii. 1 7, 5*^9 o'ro/Lta;\;oi/ 

 e;(et eipiv ko). nXarvv oXov, dTTo(f)vd8as ex"- 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 52. 395 c 6 appqv yn'i^wv Km noiKiXaTepos. 



An allusion to the particoloured plumage of the Common Drake, 

 or else of some wild Duck, in Ar. Av. 11 48. 



Ael. V. ^2 ^^ o}8iva)V ecrri vqKTiKTj, Koi fjiadflv ov deiTai, k. t. X. 



Use as Food. — Herod, ii. "/y AlyvTTTioi ras vqacras wjjlovs aireovrai, 

 TTpoTapixeva-apTes. Frequent in the Comic Poets. Its wholesomeness, 

 Plut. V. Cat. Maj. xxiii (i. 359 d). On the Roman vt](TcroTpo(pela, see 

 Varro, De R. R. iii. 11, Colum. viii. 15. Mode of capture, Dion. De 

 Avib. iii. 23. 



Brought as tribute to Indian kings, Ael. xiii. 25. 



Myth and Legend.— Sacred to Poseidon, Ar. Av. 566. According to 

 Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, daughters of Pierus, 

 was metamorphosed into the bird vrjaa-a. 



Its defence against the eagle, cf. Phile, De An. Pr. xiv. 



Use the herb sideritis as a remedy, Plin. viii. 27. 



A "Weatlier-prophet. — Ael. vii. 7 nTtpvyl^ovcrai nvevfia SrjXovcnv laxvpov : 

 cf. Arist. fr. 241, 1522 b; Theophr. De Sign. fr. vi. 18, 28; Arat. 

 918, 970. 



NHTTOKTO'NOI, s. >'titto<J)o»'09. A kind of Eagle, the Anataria of 

 Plin. X. 3. Supposed, by Sundevall, to be the Spotted Eagle, 

 Aquila naevia ; vide s. v. dXideTos. Compare, however, the notes 

 on Xayw't'o^'OS, irXdyyos, &C. 



KlpKos. vrjTTOKTovos, Phile, De An. Pr. xiv. 6. vrjrTo(j)6vos, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 32, 618 b = fJiop4)i'os and TrXdyYos, q. v. Cf. Ael. v. ^^. 



NOYMH'NIOI. An unknown bird, opveov opioiov drTaya- o KOI Tpo^iXos, 

 Hesych. 

 TroveTh.— ^vvrjXdov oTTayds re koi vovfirjvios, Suid., &C. (for other 



