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REAEKAN {continued). 



Epiphan. (ad Physiol, c. xx) Hexaem. c. viii eWi yhp tj ne\eKav (piXu- 

 T(KVQv opveov napa mivra ra oppea' 1] 8e dijkeia Kade^erm ev Tjj vfOTTia 

 (f)vXii(T(xov(Ta T(i reKva, Knl nepiBaXnei alra daTra^ojievT], koi Ko\a(f)L^ovcra ev 

 (PiXtjp.aTi oTTcts rnis 7r\evpa7s Karepyd^iTai, /cot TeXeuroicrt' koi ped' T]p.(pns 

 rpe'ts Tvapayivopivov tov lippevos 7r€\(Kiivos,Kai evpiaKovTOS avra redvrjKOTd 

 o\o(f)vpeTat Trjv Kaphiav \lav' n(TiKrf/p.iVos be tov ttovov Ko\a(pi^ei rrjv i8iav 

 TrXevpdp, Koi orras avrrj fp,Troie'i, koX Karappei aifjia emard^av eVl ras TrXrjyas 

 tS>p reOvrjKOTMv venacrcov, koi ovtcos C^onoiovvTci : cf. also Ps.-Hieron. ad 

 Praes. de Cer. Pasch. v. p. 149 (ed. 1693), Isid. Orig. xii. c. 7, Glycas, 

 Annal. i. p. 44, S. August, in Ps. cii, &c., &c. A confusion with 

 certain Woodpecker-myths (cf. ireXcKas) may be one of the various 

 sources of these corrupt but popular stories. 



riEAEKA"!, s. TreXeKcii'. A Woodpecker. Mod. Gk. neXfKavoi, devbpo- 

 c})dyos, T(TiKki8dpa. Vide S. VV. SpuoKoXciTTTT)?, KcXeos, aireXcKTOS. 

 Mentioned Ar. Av. S82, 1155 et seq. Cf. s. v. ireXeKav, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 10, 614 b 01 be TTeXeKuves 01 iv ro'is Troraiio'is, as indicating that the 

 same word applied to the two different birds. Cf. Suid. (verb. q. del. 

 Gaisford), ecm be eidos opveov, Tpvirovv ra bepbpn, dcf) ov Koi bevbpOKu- 

 XdnTTjs (caXeirai : also Hesych., s. v, TreXeKaf. 



In the version of the Itylus-myth, given by Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 

 c. xi, Polytechnus, the husband of Aedon, is metamorphosed into the 

 bird TTfXeKup, the brother of Aedon being transmuted at the same time 

 into ervoyj/. With the stories of the Woodpecker breaking open con- 

 fined places, referred to above, s. vv. 8puoKoXdT7Tr]s and eiroij/, under 

 the heading of the ' Samir-legend,' cf. the myth of Aiowaos Tj-fXeKvs 

 (R. Brown, Dionysiac Myth, i. p. 332, ii. p. 81). 



Hostile to 'dpTv^, Ael. vi. 45, Phile, De An. 684 : this statement is 

 generally referred to the Pelican, but it more probably refers to the 

 Woodpecker, that bird and the Quail being both alike associated with 

 solar myths. 



HEAEKPNOI. 



In Dion. De Avib. ii. 6, and probably therefore also in Ar. Av. 882, 

 a Pelican. 



riEAHA'P' uepia-Tepas Ka\ TTepcrLKrji 70 r]pi(Tv' AuKccves. HeS}'ch. (verb. dub. : 



of. Schmidt in Hesych.). 



HE'AAOZ. The Heron. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b 6 neXXos xaXeivws evvd^erai Knl d)(ev(L' Kpd^ei re 

 yap Kat aipa, as (j^aalp, dcpiTjcTiv eK tcov 6(f)6aXfiS)v oxeicjv, Kat tIktu cj)avXn)s 

 Knl dbvvrjpcas. TroXepel be toIs ^XdnrovaLv, dcra — aprrd^ei yap avrou — /cat 

 aXcoTTf/ci — (j}6eipei yap avrov ttjs vvktos — /cat Kopvbco — ra yap cod avroii 

 KXenrei. Ibid. ix. 18, 6l6b evpij^avos be /cat beinpoipupos Kiil enaypos, 



