I20 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



NYKTIKOPAH {contimud) . 



meines Bedenckens weder ein Caprimulgus noch Nycticorax ist.' 

 And the confusion thus introduced seems to have been aided by Gaza 

 having translated wKTiKopa^ by cicuma (Gr. KiKUfjiiS) q-v.), afterwards 

 misspelt ciciinia, ciconia (vide Belon, ii. c. 36, Camus, ii. p. 250). 



Nevertheless, although the above-cited passages all appear to apply 

 to an Owl, yet Ardea purpurea, ftycticorax, and other Herons are said 

 to be now called vvKTiKopa^ (Erh., Heldr.) ; further, it has been shown 

 above that the attributes of epuibios are in part nocturnal. Lastly, it 

 must be noted that there are evidences of Egyptian influence in the 

 stories both of epwfitoy and wKTiKopa^ ; vide s. v. di'oiraia. 



Ol'NA'NeH. An unknown bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 633 {loc. dub.) aipavl^erai de Kni ^v Kokovai rivei 

 nlvdvdrjv dvlaxovTos tov (Tfipiov, tvofievov 8e (paiverai' (peuyei yap ore pev 

 TO. ^vxT], 0T€ Se Tr)v dXeav. Cf. Plin. X. (29) 45 ; perhaps identical with 

 parra, ib. xviii. 69, or vz'/iparra, ib. x. (33) 50. Vide infra, s. v. oii'ds. 



Belon (Nat. des Oiseaux, vii. 12) first applied the name to the 

 ■Wheatear, which {Saxicola oetianthe, L.) still retains it. 

 OTNA'Z. a kind of Pigeon : probably the wild Rock- Pigeon, 

 Columha livia, L. Also olkias, Poll. vi. 22 olvlai be Ka\ olvus, 



T] aypia TrfpiCTTepd. 



Arist. H. A. v. 13, 544 b opvis TrepiorepoftS/jy, piKpcS pd^wv rf)? nepiarepas. 

 Ib. viii. 3, 593 eXdrruv 8e (^afios. Ib. vi. I, 558 b biTOKei, i.e. lays two 

 eggs ; cf. De Gen. iv. jj, iii. 9, Plin. x. 79 (58). Arist. H. A. viii. 3. 593 tov 

 (j)6ivonu>pov Koi (paiverai, pdXiara Koi aKicrKerai' fj 8' aXaxris avT?]S yiverai 

 paXiara KanTovarji to v8a>p' dcpiKvovvTai 8 els Toiis tottovs tovtovs ex.ovcrai 



VfOTTOVS. 



Arist. ap. Athen. ix. 394 a pei^oiv eaTl Trjs Trfpio-repur, xp^l^^ ^^ ^X^' 

 olvcionov. <palv€Tai (fidivoTvaipa) p6v(o. Athen. ib. 394 e Xeyfrat ^' on 

 1] olvds fciv (payovcra to Trjs l^las aneppa eVi tivos d(po8ev(Trj 8ev8pov, Ibiav 

 l^iav (pveadai : cf. Plin. xvi. (44) 93, s. v. pahanbes. Ael. iv. 58 t^v olvd8a 

 bpveov elbevai Xl^rj ovaav, ov pfjv cos TivfS apTreXof. Xeyei 8f ' ApicTTOTfXrjs 

 pei^ov pev avTo eivai (pdTTtjs, TTepicrTfpds ye prjv tJttov. Mentioned also, 

 Lyc. 358. 



oii/a8o0iipas, in Sparta, a dove-catcher, Ael. 1. c. 



The passage in Aelian, and the discrepancy between the accounts of 

 the bird's size, indicate that olvds was a little-known word. The later 

 Greeks and early commentators derived it from olvos, with reference to 

 the colour of the bird (Athen. 1. c, Eustath. ad Odyss. p. 475, ed. Basil.) 

 or to its appearance in the vintage-season {tov cpdivoTrcopov) ; hence 

 Gaza translates it Vinago ; and most moderns have identified it with 

 the Stock-dove, C. oenas, L., whose breast is purple-red. But the 

 word is more probably identical with the Hebrew n:V,Jona//, as has 

 been suggested by Casaubon in Athen. p. 617, and Bochart, Hieroz. ii. 



