OPTYE— HEAAPrOI. 127 



OY'Pl'A. A kind of water-bird. 



Athen. ix. 395 e ^ 6e \eyo^fvr] ovpia ov noXii XfiTTfrai vfjTTrjs, t(S -^pwnaTi 

 he pynapoKepap-os ecrri, to he pvyxps paKpov re Ka\ (rrevov e^ei. 



'0<t>rOYPOZ" opvis 770105 eV Aldioniq, Hesych. 



nA'nnoz, An unknown bird [ver5. dud.) ; opvtov elhos, Hesych. 



Mentioned Ael. iii. 30, in a somewhat doubtful passage, as a bird in 

 whose nest the Cuckoo lays her egg. Sometimes supposed to be 

 punned on in Ar. Av. 765 (pvaarut ndjnrovs nap' ^piv, where however 

 mimroi are more probably young downy feathers (vide Kock, &c.). 

 Coray cites, vaguely. Mod. Gk. TraTnna, a duck. 



riAPAO'l- deros, vno MaKeSovav, Hesych. 



riA'PAAAOI, s. irdpSaXis, Hesych. An undetermined bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b opveov eanv dyeXaiov as enl to ttoXv, Koi ovk 

 eoTTt KaTO. eva the'iv' to hi ^paipa cnrohoei^tijs oXos, peyedos he TrapanXrjaios 

 e'Keivois [? paXaKOKpnpevs, ;!(\Q)/3i'a)i/, Tpvycov], evnovs he Ka\ oi) KaKoTTTepos, 

 (puii'ij he TToXXr] KUi ov jSd/jela' to he peyeBos [rov KoWvpLMVosI tuvtou. 



A very doubtful passage, cf. Billerbeck, De loc. nonnulL Arist. H. A. 

 difficihor., Hildesh. 1806. Sundevall, following Turner, Gesner, &c., 

 identifies TrdphaXos with the Golden Plover, Charadrius pluvialis, L., 

 which is frequent in flocks in Greece, and has a constant cry, and is 

 about as large as Tpvya>v : in the name he sees a suggestion of the 

 dappled plumage, in spite of anoSoeihfjs oXos. Billerbeck, following 

 Aldrovandi, &c., identifies it with the Starling, for similar and equally 

 good reasons. Vide supra, s. v. iiaXaKOKpaceu's. 



riEAAPro'l. (Said to be derived from ireXos, dpydn lit. black-and- 

 white ; vide Suid. s. v, neXapyLhels, ed. Bernhardy; Zonarus, p. 1528 ; 

 Pott. Etym. Forsch. i. p. 131 ; cf, vtjes TreXapyoxpcares, Lycophr. 

 24; openrfXapyos, q. V.). Dim. ireXapyiSeus, Ar. Av. 1356, Plut. ii. 

 992 B. Cf. also yuyt]<s. 

 The Stork, Ciconia alba, L. IMod. Gk. XeXeKi, XeXeKm, sometimes 

 said to be a Turkish word ; but Byzantios ingeniously compares 



XeXe'Ki = neXapyoi with AeXeyes = UeXaayol : cf. also XdXayes. 



Mentioned in Ar. Av. 1 139, with a pun on to HeXapyiKop ; cf. ibid. S69. 



Description. — Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 nepl tcis Xipi/m Kn\ tovs noTapovs 

 ^lorevei. Its clattering noise, Philostr. Ep. ad Epictet. tovs ireXnp- 

 yovs eTretSaf TrapiovTcis fjpds KpoTaaiv : cf. Ovid, Met. vi. 97 crepitante 

 ciconia rostro. 



Migrations. — Arist. H. A. viii. 16, 600, ^coXft. Cf. Plin. x. 23 (31) Cico- 

 niae quonam e loco veniant aut quo se referant, incompertum adhuc 

 est. Nemo videt agmen discedentium, cum discessurum appareat, nee 



