150 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



iniZA {continued). 



tradition, and on the ground of the resemblance of the name to the 

 various forms of the word ami'osj which is still the Mod. Gk. name of 

 the bird : partly also because the other common birds which might be 

 meant (Goldfinch, Greenfinch, and Linnet) are fairly well identified 

 under other names. 



iniZl'AX. (Cod. Med. o-ny^iay). 



Mentioned (by name only) in Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, ix. 36, 

 620. a-TTi^Lng- UpaKos dtos, Hesych. Identified by tradition with 

 the Sparrow-hawk, Accipiter fiistis, L. ; vide s.v. irepKos. 



imZl'THI. The Great Tit or Ox-eye, Par us ?)iaJor, L. etSos alyiBa- 

 \ov opveov, Hesych. 

 Arist. H, A, viii. 3, 592 b. Vide s. v. aiyi'GaXos. 



im'NOI. Also CTTrii/os (Photius), airiVa, amVir], aivivBia, Hesych. Cf. 

 also (nriyyos, airuYyas, iriYyas, Hesych. Dim. airn'iSiov, Ar. fr. 

 344: a-niviov, Eubul. Incert. 14. 

 Probably identical with onriYyos, airi'^a, the Chaflfineh; still so- 

 called (Heldr.). 



Ar. Av. 1079 oTi (Tvveipcov Tovs anivovs TrcoXtt Knd^ enTa rov^okov. Pax, 

 1 148, Fr. 443, Eubul. ap. Athen. ii. 65 C riWeiv re (pdrras Koi Kix^as 

 61XOV I cnrivois. 



Ael. iv. 60 (rnivoi 8e apa (To(f)a>T€poi. Koi dvdpaiirtov to peWov TTpoe-yfw- 

 Kivai. laaai yovv Koi x^ijxaiva /te'XXorra, /cat ■)(i6va eaofievriv Tvpop-qdiCTTaTii 

 icfivXd^avTO. Koi rov KaTakri'^6r]vni 5e«i, dno^L^ pdcrKovcLV e's ra d\aro)8r] )(U)pUi^ 

 Koi avTo'is TCI ddaq Kprja(pvyeTa cos di> e'iirois tcTTLV. Cf. Theophr. De Sign, 

 vi. I, 3 ; Arat. 1024. 



Dion. De Avib. iii. 2, 4 d.pn toIs liWois a-Tpovdiois toIs Kara tov ^oppdv 

 fTTi8rip.oii(ri TOV eapos l^a> BrjpwvTai, tols KoXafiois iniKaBLcravTes, k.t.\. — 

 deajj-aTCOv 6' tj^icttov crrpovBovs opav l^a> TrenfSrjpevovs Koi KaTinr'nTTOVTas (!). 



inOPn'AOZ. In Ar. Av. 300, STTopytXoy probably means a Sparrow, 

 and the usual reference to Sporgilos, a barber, if justified 

 at all, makes the joke a double-barrelled one. The word is 

 the same as (nripyovKo^ or a-iripyvs, and as Mod. Gk. a-novp- 

 yirrji, a Sparrow. TrvpyiTrjs, a word applied to a Sparrow by 

 Galen, &c., is rendered in the dictionaries /urr/Iis, as if from 

 TTvpyos: it is obviously (T-7rvpyiTt]s; in like manner TrepyouXor, 

 Hesych. = a-nepyovXos j and I have suggested above, somewhat 

 less confidently, that npea-^vs as a bird-name should perhaps read 

 (T7Tep^vs=o-nfpyvs. These words form a parallel series, with n 



