176 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



♦AAAKPOKO'PAE. A bird, commonly identified, on the strength 

 of its name (cf. <j)aXapis), with the Coot ; according to others, 

 the Cormorant. See also s. v. Kopa^, |3. 



Plin. X. (48) 68 lam et in Gallia Hispaniaque capitur [attagen], et 

 per Alpes etiam, ubi et phalacrocoraces, aves Balearium insularum 

 peculiares. Cf. ib. xi. 47 quaedam animalium naturaliter calvent, 

 sicut . . . corvi aquatici, quibus apud Graecos nomen est inde. 



♦AAAPl'l, s. (^aKr]pis. (iMSS. have also cfiapaXU.) 



{(paXos, the * beak ' of a helmet ; (pnkapoi, a white spot or ' blaze ' ; 



cf. Germ. Blesshithn, from Bletz := blaze, Buttm. Lexil. s. v. ^oKo^ : 



the Engl, bald-coot is analogous.) 

 The Coot (.''), Fulica atra, L. Mod. Gk. (f)aXapi8a (Heldr.). 



Ar. Ach. 875, Av, 565 rju ^K(^pohirri Svrj, nvpovs lipviOi 0aX;;pi'St dveiv 

 (ubi Schol. 17 8e (jia\T]p\s oppeov eVri \ipvaiov evTrpcrrfs). Arist. H. A. 

 viii. 3) 593 h opi/ts aTeyavorrovs, ^apvrepoi' nep\ noTapovs Koi Xipvas farlv. 

 (Mentioned with kukvos, vrJTra, KoXvp^is.) Id. fr. 273, 1527 b dWdrTeadai 

 as TU)V KO(Tav(f)a)v Koi (fiaXrjpidcov aTtokevKaivopevuiv Kara Kaipovs. 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 395 e r; Se c})a\ap\s koi airfj a-revov ex^ovaa 

 TO pvyx^os crrpoyyvXciirepa tijp oy^LV ovaa, evrecfjpns rfjv yaarepa, piKpw 

 p.e\avTepa to vaiTou. Cleom. ap. Athen. ix. 393 ^ (f)aX)]pi8as Tapixipas 

 fivpias. Its mode of capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 23. Plin. x. (48) 57 

 Phalerides in Seleucia Parthorum et in Asia, aquaticarum lauda- 

 tissimae; Colum. viii. 15, i ; Varro, R. R. iii. li, 4. 



The identification rests mainly on the modern name, of which 

 Sundevall and Aubert and Wimmer seem to have been unaware, and 

 is supported by the derivation of the word. Sundevall suggests Me7-gus 

 albellus, and Aubert and Wimmer also suppose a species of Afergiis. 

 Gesner, Camus, and other older commentators agree in the identifica- 

 tion of Coot. At best the identification is doubtful, and the various 

 references perhaps refer to more birds than one. The allusion in 

 Athenaeus to ten thousand salted (paXr]pi8as is especially puzzling. The 

 connexion with Aphrodite in Ar. Av. 565, where we might rather 

 have expected some such word as TcepiaTepa, is not explained. 



4>AIIAN0'l, s. (j)aCTiai/iKos ; SC. opt'is. 



A Pheasant, Phasi'afuis colchicus, L. Vide also s. v. Tcrapos. 



Mnesim. ap. Athen. ix. 387 b a-ivavioiTepov ■jrdpecrriv opvidoiv ydXa \ 

 Koi cfjaainvos dnoTeTiXpevos koXus. 



Ar. Av. 69 ; Nub. 109 (sometimes supposed to refer, in the latter 

 passage, to a Phasian horse, cf. Suidas, Lob. Phiyn. 460, but not so 

 according to Athen. ix. 387 a). 



Agatharch. ap. Athen. ix. 387 C Trep\ tov ^ua-i8ns iroTapov t6v Xuyov 

 noLovpevos ypdcpei Ka\ Tavra' " 7rXt]dos S opviBcov tuiv KaXovpivuiv (^acriavHiv 



