150 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



nOP<t>YPri2N. The Purple Gallinule, Porphyria Iiyacvithus, Temm. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 707, 881, 1249. Arist, fr. 272, ap. Athen. ix. 

 388 C, d (r;i^iSavo7ro8a avrou flvai, exeiv re ^(pwfia Kvdvfov, aKeXr] fxaKpu, 

 pvyxos TjpyfjLfvov fK Tt]S KeCpaXijs (f)niviKovv, peyedos dXfKTpvovos. (TT6pn)(ov 

 d e;(et XfWTOv, Sio tcov Xap^avopevcov els rov TroSa rnpieveTcii piKpas ras 

 yl/-oypi8as, Kanrcdv Se nipfi (H. A. viii. 6, 595 ; Plin. x. (46) 63 morsu 

 bibit). TTfVTaBaKTvXos re (?) wf rbv peaov e;^et ptyiarou. Dion. De Avib. 

 i. 29, a similar description, ipvOpov avra to pafxcpos earl, koi Kara KecpaXfis 

 aianep Tiva nlXov exei, onoiovs o'l To^crai Ilepcrai (pepovcnv. Arist. H. A. ii. 

 17, 509 fii'X"'^ pnKpov e;(et' ovVf rov irpoXo^v '4x^i- "iVe rov (TT('p'ix»v evpiv 

 aXXa a(f)68pa paKpov. Schol. Ar. Av. 1 249 Kvaveol elai. Arist. De Inc. 

 10.710. Callim. ap. Athen. I.e. tijv rpocpijv Xnpfiavdv rov Trnpcpvpiaii'u iv 

 (TKOTO) Kara^vopevov, Iva pi) rii niiTov deaar^TM' ep^^paiVei yap tovs npocrioPTCis 

 avTOv rfj Tpo<f}f]. AeL iii. 42 oipaiuraros re apa koi (pepcovvpoirnTos itrri 

 • fcptoj', Kai x<iipei Kovi6p(vos, &c. According to Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. 

 I.e., it inhabits Libya and is there held sacred. According to Plin. 

 X. 63, it inhabits Commagene (Asia Min.) and a yet nobler sort (x. 69) 

 the Balearic Islands. 



A bird of lofty morals and great vigilance, Polemon ap. Athen. I.e., 

 Ael. iii. 42, v. 28, vii. 25, viii. 20, xi. 15, Dion. De Avib. i. 29. 



An easy mode of capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 21. 



The descriptions in Arist. fr. 272 and Dionysius clearly refer to the 

 Purple Gallinule : that in Arist. H. A. ii. 17 is supposed by some 

 (I think needlessly) to apply to the Flamingo, the Gallinule not having 

 a very long neck. The bird occurs in Egypt and neighbouring coun- 

 tries : it is rare in Greece, but inhabits Lake Copais and Lake Dystos 

 in Euboea (Erhard, I.e., also Naumannia, 1858, p. 21), though, accord- 

 ing to other authorities (Von der Miihle, Heldreich, Kriiper), nothing 

 is known of its occurrence in Greece in recent times. 



nOY'noI. A late word for the Hoopoe ; vide s. v. cttoi}/. 



Anon. De Avibus et earum Virtutibus in Medicina (MS. cit. Du 

 Cange, Gloss. S. v. KOvKov(pos), e7ro\|/' opvfov iv aepi TTOToypevov' ovroi /CdXeirni 



KOVKOVCpOS, Kai TTOVTrOf. 



nPE'lBYZ. A name for the Wren ^rpoxiXos, Hesych., Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 1 1, 615. In this word one is much tempted to suspect a trans- 

 position of letters, and to suggest, as a conjectural emendation, 

 (TTre'pPus ; of. also S.vv. CTirepyos, airopyiXo^. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 iroXefiios Se Ka\ 6 Trpea-jSvs icaXnvpfvos Kn\ yaXi] 

 Ka\ Kopo)vr] [t^ yXavKi]' to. yap coa Ka\ tovs vfOTTOvs KnTfadlovcriv nvTrjs. In 

 the preceding sentence opxi'l^os and yXuv^ are mentioned as hostile 

 to one another. (Here Sundevall supposes the Jackdaw to be meant, 

 on account of its egg-eating propensities, but the passage is mytho- 

 logical, not prosaic.) 



