l8o A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



♦A^ {contimicif). 



ix. 29, 618. The Cuckoo lays her eggs in its nest (cf. s. v. <|>d(7o-a, 

 Arist. De Mirab. 3, 830 b). 

 Mentioned also Lye. 580. 



♦EAAI'NAI. An unknown water-bird, mentioned, with epithet raxo':, 

 as being captured in nets, Dion. De Avib. iii. 23. 



4>H'NH. According to Doederlein, connected with 0r;i/o£ (= Xanrrpos), 

 (j)da, (pnii'co, &c., i.e. having ra ofxfjLaTa \ap.Trpa: or according to 

 Von Edlinger and others, from root bha-n = cjiiovelu. I inchne 

 to think the word is an exotic, and probably Egyptian, connected 

 with (poiii^, "Eg. beuim. 



A kind of Vulture. 



Od. iii. 371 ^AdrjVT) I (prjVT] el^opivrj. Od. xvi. 2l6 Kkalov 8e Xtyecoj, 

 ativwrepov rf t' olavoi, \ (firjvni ij alyvmol ynp-^uvvxes. Ar. Av. 304. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b derov pel^o^v, t6 xp^i^"- crnobodbis. lb. ix. 32, 

 619 aeros 6 yvrjcnoi jiei^wv Tijs cjiT]vy]i. lb. vi. 6, 563, ix. 34, 619 b eK^XrjdivTd 

 Tpe(pei. ra tov derov TiKva (cf. Ambros. Hexaem. v. 18). enapyepos t iari 

 Koi TreTTTjpuTai tovs 6(f)dn\povs (? a reference to the blood-red sclerotic of 

 the eye). Its maternal affection referred to (cf. aiyuTrios, &c.), 0pp. 

 Hal. 1. 727 Koi fj,:v Tis (pi'iVrjs u?nv6v yvov eKXvfv dv']p | opOpiov dp<p\ reKeaaiv. 



Arist. De Mirab. 60, 835 ^^ ^^ dXuiuTicv 'Pw^ ylverai, e/c de tovtchv 

 irepKvoi KOI "yiTre?. 



Ael. Xll. 4 <f»']vr]v Se Ka\ apTTrjv 'APi'jva Tvpoavepovaiv. 



According to Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. vi, Zeus metamorphoses the 

 wife of Periphas into the bird <t>i'iv>], kcI SiSot npos divaa-av irpa^iv dvdpixnroi^ 

 ulaiav enKpalvea-dai : cf. Ovid, Met. vii. 399. 



Also <p''''''S, Diosc. ii. 58 (plvis to opveov, 6 'PoapdiaTi KaXovaiv uaaifppayov: 

 cf. Plin. X. 3. 



Identified by Aldrovandi, Gaza, and by most moderns, with the 

 Aquila barbata of Pliny, N. H. x. 3, that is to say with our Lammer- 

 geier, Gypa'ettis barbattis, L., which is accurately described by Dion. 

 De Avib. i. 4 under the name apirif]. The Lammergeier is also 

 identical with Lat. ossifraga (Plin. 1. c), a name accurately descriptive of 

 its habits, and Lat. sanqtealis (Festus, 316,317). The brief description 

 in Arist. H. A. viii, incHnes Sundevall, Aubert, and Wimmer, to identify 

 <i)r]vr] with Vultur monachus. The references are in the main poetical 

 or mythical, and both the name and the stories of the bird's maternal 

 affection seem to me to point to an Egyptian origin. With the stories 

 of the Eagle's bastard brood, cf. the Mod. Gk. name pr]\a8e\(pi = 

 erepodaXrjs (Coray, "Atokto, v. 204), said by Heldreich to be applied 

 to Aquila Bonellii. 



