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riEPIITEPA {continued'). 



How a Pigeon caused a war between Chaonians and Illyrians, Ael. 

 xi. 27. 



The Dove of Deucalion ; Plut. Mor. ii. 968 F nepia-Tepav eK rrjs XdpvaKos 

 cKpiffxevrjv, 8t]\a>fxa yevio-Qia ;^6i/xa)i'o? fiiv (ifro) irakiv ivhvoyiivqv, fu8ini Se 

 dTroTTTcia-av : cf. Lucian, Syr. Dea, c. 12, Apollod. i. 7, 2 (vide s.v. ireXeia). 



The Pigeon in Medicine. — For references to the therapeutic value 

 of Pigeons' dung, flesh, blood, feathers, and other parts in cases of 

 poisoning, burns, ulcers, jaundice, and most other ailments, see Galen, 

 De Simpl. Med. Temp, x, also Plin. iii. (6) 12, xxii. (25) 58, xxix. (6) 39, 

 and XXX, passim. 



Fables. — Ttepia-Teph Ka\ Kokoios, Fab. Aes. (ed. Halm) 20I b. Tvepiarepa 

 Kill KopuivT], ibid. 358. Trepiarepa Koi p-vp/J-r]^, ibid. 296. Trepcarfpa Si- 

 yj/aaa, ibid. 357. 



See also, in addition to articles cited s.v. ircXeia, T. Watters, Chinese 

 Notions about Pigeons and Doves, N. China Br., R. As. Soc, iv. 

 pp. 225-242, 1867. In this paper various resemblances are shown to 

 exist between classical superstitions and Chinese popular notions, an 

 important subject concerning which too little information is accessible. 

 Among other points, the writer states that in Chinese legend the Dove 

 is often confused with the Cuckoo, that the former as well as the latter 

 bird is said to metamorphose into the Hawk, and that the Dove is said 

 to lay in the Magpie's nest : these facts may have some bearing on 

 the obscure Aristotelian statements referred to above (s.v. kokku^) 

 concerning the nesting of the Cuckoo in the nest of 4>d»|/. 



riEPlZTEPA" MHAl'NH. An Indian Green Fruit-pigeon, Treron sp. 

 Daemach. ap. Athen. 394 e; Ael. V. H. i. 15. Also Trepta-repai u>xpa'i, 

 Ael. XV. 14, brought as presents to the Indian king; aa-nep Xe-yovo-t juTjre 

 rjpfpovadai prjTe TTure npavvfa-Bai. Cf. S.V. TreXeias y(Kuip6-miKo^. 



riEPKNO'nTEPOI = opeiTreXapyos = uiraiexos. A kind of Vulture. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 618 b XeuK^ Kf<j)a\y'], ptyidei Se peyLcrros, TTrepa 

 be jSpaxdrara, Ka\ ovponvyiov npofiriKes, yvnl opoios. optineXapyos KaXelrai 

 Kn\ vrraifTOS, oiKfl S' aX(Tr], ra fih KaKa ravTa c^oJi' TOiS aXXois, rwv 

 8' aya6u)V ovbev' aXla-Kirai yap Koi StcoKernt vno KopuKuiv Kai tuv aXXav. 

 ^apvs yap Kai KaKol^ios Ka\ ra redveara (fiepcov, iTfii'f] 8' del Ka\ /3oa Ka\ 

 pivvpi(ii : cf. Plin. X. (i) 3. 



Of the three names, not one occurs elsewhere, save vTralfTos, Roios 

 ap. Anton. Lib. c. 20 (loc. corn). The description is insufficient, but 

 agrees fairly, except as regards size, with the Egyptian Vulture ; in 

 which case the black and white plumage may explain nepKpoiiTepo^, 

 and, together perhaps with the stork-like nest, ope'iniXapyos. 



Sundevall identifies nepKvuTTTepos with the Lammergeier, Cypaetus 

 barbatus, L., with which the epithet XfvKOKe(j)aXos agrees ; but for this 



