14^ A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



nHNEAO*!' contiimcd). 



Hesych., and from its occurrence in some MSS. for the latter in 

 Plin. X. (22) 29, it seems probable that both names are identical, and 

 possible that both are corruptions of a foreign (Egyptian ?) word. The 

 association of at| and Trr]veXo'^ in an obscure and faulty Aristotelian 

 passage, may be a mere confusion arising out of the story of Hermes 

 visiting Penelope in the form of a goat (cf. Creuzer, Symb. iii. p. 502) ; 

 in which case di| should disappear from the list of bird-names. 



riH'PIE- nepSi^, Kp^res, Hesych. 



nTKOZ. A Woodpecker. L,:it. pi'cus ; said to be an Oscan word. 



Strabo, v. 2 ttIkov yap Trjv opviv TovTOv ovofJiaCovcn, Koi vofii^ovariv Apems 

 lepov. See also Dion. Halic. i. 14. Cf. Ovid, F. iii. 37, &c. Cf. also 

 Grimm's D. Myth. p. 388, Creuzer's Symb. iii. 676, iv. 368. 



nrnoi s. -m'TTiTos. A young chicken, Athen. ix. 368 f. (Casaub. for 

 Imvovs). 



ninfl' (IMSS. have also iriTra, ttiitos, Triirpa. Some editors read iiriru, 

 cf. I'ttttt)). The Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers, 

 PicHs major and minor, L. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 "ChXa S' tari crKVinocfidya, a tovs (TKi'inas 6r]pevovTa 

 ^jj fiaXicTTa, olov tvlttu) rj re [Mei^cov Koi fj eXdrTcav' KoKovcn de rives dp.(^6T€pa 

 rnvra bpvoKoKdiTTas' op.ota S' aXXijXoiy Ka\ (pcovrjv 'ixovcriv 6p.olav, TrXrjV 

 juei'^o) TO p.fi^ov. vejifrai 8' dp,(j)6Tepa ravra npos to. ^vXa TTpoanerofieva. 

 Ibid. ix. 21, 617 TCI aKfXrj jSpn^en [e'x^' ° Kvavosl Tt] ttotw Trapn/xoia. Ibid. 

 ix. I, 609 : hostile to ttoikiXls, Kopv8u)v, xX(>^pevs' ra yap coa KaTecrdiovaiP 

 dXXriXcdv, and to epcoSids (cf. Hesych.) : ra yap oJa Kanadiei Kn\ rovs veorrols 

 Tov epcoStoO. 



Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. C. 14 7; Se firjrrjp avrav iyevero KvinoXoyos 

 TrtTTob* TTpos TaiTTjv afTCO noXffjitiS earn Kal epcoSiw" KnTi'iyvvcri yap avrcov la 

 coa, Komovaa rqv 8piv Slo. rovs Kvliras (cf. criTTY], q. v.). 



Lycoph. Cass. 476 duri mnovs a-Kopniov Xaipa> andaas. Tzetz. in Lyc. 

 (edit, Steph. p. 83) TriTrw Spveov eort daXdaainv fiTrpenes Ka\ evaSes. 



The above identification, setting aside the statement of Tzetzes, 

 depends solely on the existence of two species of Spotted Woodpecker, 

 similar in appearance, but unequal in size. 



m'TYAOI- opviOdpiov Tt ("lypiov, Hesych. Also iri'-n-uXos, Schol. Theocr. 



X. 50. 

 nr<t>YrE (v. 1. m<})iY|, Trt(})r)^) : 7ri4)Xi|, Suid. An unknown bird = 



KopvSaXns =: nicpaXXos, S. TTifpciXXls, Hesych. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 610 7n'0iy£ Ka\ apnrj Ka\ iKr'ivos (jyiXoi. Mentioned 

 also by Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xx, in a fabled metamorphosis, together 

 with apTTT], apmicros, &.C. Cf. Etym. M. 673 ; Choerob. Cram. Anecd. 



