1 68 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TETPA'AJiN- opieuv rt, 'AXKotoy, Hesych. Cf. ibid. TerpdhuaiV dr/Swa. 

 See Schmidt m /oc, and Bjrgk, P. Lyr. Gr. iii. p. 192, fr. 154 

 (116). 



TETPAfON' opviOapiov n, AaAccoi^fr, Hesych. Cf. TerpdSwi'. 



TE'TPAE. a doubtful word, applied to the Guinea-fowl. 



Ar. Av. 885, Eust. 1205, 27. 



A discussion concerning the identity of this bird in Athen. ix. (c. 58}. 

 398, c-f. Alex. Mynd. ibid. Ttrpa^ to p.€yedos 'Laos <TivfpixoX6ya>, to xP'^h^t 

 Kepap.eovi, pv-rrnpa'ts oriy/iaZs /cat fieydXais ypnjxpals ttoiklXos, Kaprrofpdyos, 



oTav MOTOKTJ de, T€Tpd(ei tj; (pcovrj. [The disputants here seem to suppose 

 that Alexander Myndius referred to some very little bird, tipos 

 Ta>v o-juiKpordrcov.] Epicharm., ibid. Terpayas anepfiaroXoyovs re KayXaas 

 avKoXi^as. . . . epcoStot . . . Terpayes re [««'] o-nepfxaToXoyoi. Athen. 1. c. 

 ap-n 8e ravTa XeyovTos avTov, ela-rjXde tis (pepcop ip rw raXdpco top rerpaKa. 

 rjp Se TO p,iP p.€yedos vnep oXeKTpvupa tup p-eyiuTop, to 8e elSos nop(f)vpiwpt. 

 TrapaTrXrjcnos' Koi (itto twp cotcop eKUTepcodep el^e Kpefidpepa wanep oi uXeK- 

 Tpvopes TCI KoXXnia' ^apeia S' rjP rj (f)U)pr], SavfiaadpTup ovp ijpatp to evapQis 

 Tov oppidos p.fT oxj TToXv K.a\ iaKevaa-jxiPos TrapijvexOr], kol to. Kpea avTov 

 rjp TrapanXfjaia [ro'is riys fi€ydXi]s^ aTpovdov, rjV Koi avTijp ttoXXoku KUTf- 

 daiadfieda. 



According to Larensius (ap. Athen. 1. c), he had seen the bird and 

 heard the name in Mysia and Paeonia : he probably alluded to some 

 one of the Grouse family ; cf. tetrao7i in Plin. x. (22) 29. The bird 

 brought into the banquet was evidently a Guinea-fowl, the descrip- 

 tion given of the colour, wattles, iSic. being characteristic. The account 

 in Alex. Mynd. is not capable of identification : it also may possibly 

 refer to the Guinea-fowl, which is not mentioned under the name 

 fjieXeaypis by this author. Sundevall supposes that Alex. Mynd. alluded 

 to some small bird, perhaps the Whinchat, Pratincola 7-ubeira, L., 

 and that the same was identical with rerpi^ and oupd§, J. G. Schneider 

 (Anmerk. z. d. Eel. Phys. p. 45) conjectures the Little Bustard, Otis 

 tetrax, L., on whose cry at breeding-time, cf. Bufifon, iv. p. 55. 



The name occurs also in Nemesian, i. 128, Anthol. Lat. 8S3 (ed. 

 Riese), in a passage, however, which adds nothing definite to our 

 knowledge : Tetracem Romae quem nunc vocitare taracem Coeperunt, 

 avium est multo stultissima ; namque Cum pedicas necti sibi contem- 

 plaverit adstans, Immemor ipse sui tamen in dispendia currit . . . 

 Hie prope Pentinum radicibus Apennini Nidificat, patulis quae se 

 sol obiicit agris, Persimilis cineri dorsum, maculosaque terga Inficiunt 

 pullae cacabantis imagine notae. 



TE'TPAI. A bird-name, Schol. in Ar. Av. 168. Probably = TeVpal. 



