TPiirAITHI— «t>ABOTYnOI 1 75 



'YriAi'ETOZ (^mak yvnaUros); also u\|/i.aieTos, (Boios ap. Anton. Lib.). 

 An obscure name for an Eagle or Vulture. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 618 b irtpKvoTrrepos' upf'irreXapyos KoXelrai Kni 

 vTTaleTos. Boios ap. Anton. Lib. C. 20 koI iyivero KXftnf p.iv vy\naUTOi' 

 ovTos fan 8evT(pos opvlOuiv pera tov uutov, 8LayvS>pai S' ov ;^aXe7rdj/* 6 p(v 

 yap ecTTi v((Bpo(puvos epepvos, peyns re Kni aXKipos, 6 5' deros /xeXai/repo? Kal 



eXdaa-aiu eKeifov. On this perplexing passage, see Schneider in Arist. I.e. 



'YnOAEAIQ'Z. A Libyan bird-name, Ar. Av. 65. 



The word is commonly taken as a Comic derivative of vTroSet'Sw 

 (cf. Soph. Aj. 169). The five bird-names beginning with the syllable 

 VTT- are all obscure, and what little is said about them is replete with 

 signs of foreign influence. I am pretty certain that in none of these 

 cases does iino- mean snd, and for my own part I suspect it to be 

 a corruption of a foreign, and probably Egyptian, word or prefix. 



'ynoeVMl'l. An unknown bird. Ar. Av. 302. 



'YnOAAl'I. (MSS. have also uiroXwis, uiroXXis, oiroXis* (iTTokyiis, Hesych.) 

 An indeterminate small bird. Perhaps the Wheatear, Saxicola sp. 

 The Cuckoo lays her eggs in its nest, which is on the ground, Arist. 

 H. A. viii. 7, 564, ix. 29, 618, Antig. H. Mir. 100 (109), Theophr. De 

 Caus. PI. ii. 17, 9. Also in some editions for iniXai^, H. A. vi. 3, 592 b. 

 Sundevall suggests the Wheatear, which makes its nest under a stone, 

 from a supposed connection with Xdm ; and the conjecture is supported 

 to some extent by the circumstance that the Cuckoo is known some- 

 times to use the Wheatear's nest in Greece (Kriiper, p. 184); but the 

 derivation is very doubtful. The Orphean Warbler is the bird in whose 

 nest the Cuckoo in Greece usually lays its egg, and further the state- 

 ments in Aristotle as to the birds in whose nest the Cuckoo lays are 

 very untrustworthy. 



'YnOTPIO'PXHI. A kind of Hawk. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 oi 8e liXarvTepoi [Schn. and others read 

 TrXaTi'Trrepoi] UpnKes VTT0Tpi6p)(aL KaXovprai. 



There is nothing by which to identify the name, which indeed seems 

 to be to some extent generic. The name subbuteo is traditionally 

 applied to the Hobby, which \{ -aXaJvimpoi means broad-winged, is, as 

 Sundevall remarks, excluded by the epithet. 



♦ABOTY'noi, .r. (J)a|3oKT6>'09, Hesych. A kind of Havs^k. Cf. ^0.000- 

 ((xjcos, q. v. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3) 59- b 6' re (pa^urvnos koi 6 <nn^uti' 8ia(j)('povcn 

 b ouToi TO pfyedos ttuXv dXX>';Xa)c. 



