15^ A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



IKQ* {continued). 



Kconas for (TKanas, and Aristotle likewise : so also Speusippus ; cf. 

 Ael. XV. 28, and Cobet's note [falso dixit hoc Alexander, Casaubon 

 in Athen. ii. 358]. Doederlein, Horn. Gloss. § 2359, finds the 

 stem in Kv^rjvnLs {yXav^i), Hesych., L. ciicuhare, &c. ; in which case 

 KLKKal^rj (q. v.), and Mod. Gk. KovKov^ata, would seem to be cog- 

 nate. Hes}'ch. has also a-KoTres. The name resembles the cry 

 of the bird, and is in part at least onomatopoeic : cf. It. jacopo. 

 In Switzerland it is called Todtenvogel, and cries Tod, Tod, Tod, 

 Hopf. Orakelthiere, p. 102. 

 The Little Horned Owl or Scops Owl, Ephialtes scops, L. Mod. 



Gk. /cXcocrcroy, ■^loivi (Erh.). 



Od. V. 66 aKoines r 'ipt]Kes re rni-uykoLxra-oi re Kopwvai | eludXini. 



Theocr. Id. i. 134 '^^^ 6pe(ov to\ <TKa)Tr(S dt]86(ri yapvamvTo. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592b eXarTwi/ yXavKo^. Two varieties; H. A. 

 IX. 28, 617 b (TKmTves 5' OL fiiv del ndcrav a>pau eiai, Kin KoKovvrai deL(TKS)Tres, 

 Kai ovK eadiovrai dia to afipuiroi eifni' erepoi Se -ytVoirai ivlore toC (pdivoTTO)- 

 pov, (palvovTai 8 icf) tjpepav p.'iav rj bvo to TrXetcrToi', Kai el<Tiv edoidifioi Kai 

 (T(j)68pa €v8oKt.fj.ov(Tii>' Kai Sta^epovcrt Toi)V dfiaKanrcov KoXovfievcav ovtol ("XXm 

 fifu cos iiTTiiv ovdevi, T6) 6e 7ra;^ei' Kai oItoi f-Uv eiaiv a(j)ci)V0t, eKfivoi Se 

 (poeyyovTai. Tvepl 8e yevicreats avrcov tJtis ((ttiv, ohdev wnrai, irXrju oti 

 To'is (f^vpioLs ^aivovTai. Cf. Callimachus ap. Athen. ix. 391 b ; Ael. 

 XV. 28 8in(})fpov(rt, 8e tmp deicTKuiTruiv rw nd^ei, Kai elcri TrapanXijaioL 

 Tpvyovi Kai (pciTrrj (vide Jacobs, in loc). 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 391 b fitKpuTepos earl yXavKos, Kai eVi 

 /xoXu/3So0a«/ei tw ^^pcop-ari vrroKevKa cTTiypaTa i'y(ei' duo re otto toiu 6(f)pva>v 

 Trap iKaTfpov Kp6Ta(^ov dpa(f)epfi nTepd : cf. Ael. 1. C. 



The account given of the size of the bird and the descriptions in 

 Athenaeus and Aelian agree perfectly with the Scops Owl ; this is 

 a noisy bird, repeating its cry with monotonous persistence. But it 

 appears to spend the summer only in S. Europe, migrating to Africa 

 in winter. The passage in Aristotle is perhaps faulty in this con- 

 nexion, owing to misinterpretation of the name deto-Kwx//- as though 

 from dei Sundevall supposes the other variety to be the Short-eared 

 Owl, Strix brachyotus, a somewhat larger species, which appears 

 merely to pass through Greece on its migrations : vide infra, s.v. cixos. 

 The bird (TKu>-<\r was quite unknown to Pliny, x. (49) 70 ; as apparently 

 also to Hesych., who has o-KaJn-ey' ilho^ opvku>v, oX hk koXoiovs. 



According to Metrodorus ap. Athen. 1. c. dvTopxovfX('povi aXla-Ken-dai 

 Tovs (TKoinai. Hence tr/cajx//- and o-KOTrevpi as the name of a dance, 

 Ael. XV. 28, Athen. ix. 391a, xiv. 629f, where there is a confusion 

 between o-kwx//' and a-Konos, vnoa-Konos : cf. y^oiu^- See also O. Jahn, 

 Vasenbilder, p. 24 ; Rochett, J. des savans, 1837, pp. 514-517. 



