ig6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



XHNAAnriHH '^contimicd). 



' son,' Horap. i. 53 ; cf. Bailey in Class. Journ. xvi. p. 320, and especially 

 Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer, Akad., 1876, p. 105, who cites from the 



Rosetta stone ^>s. su-ra = vi6s 'H^lov. Sacred to the Nile, Herod. 



ii. 72. With cognomen eeoyevrjs, Ar, Av. 1295. Its eggs second only 

 to the peacock's, Athen. ii. 586. vnrjvfULa tIktu, Arist. H. A, vi. 2, 559 b. 

 Mentioned also Plin. x. (22) 29. 



XHNE'Pi:2I. A small kind of Goose, Plin. x. (22) 29 et quibus lautiores 

 epulas non novit Britannia, chenerotes, fere ansere minores. 



XHNOIKO'noi. Name of an Eagle, Phile, De An. Pr. (15) 376. Cf. 



nf)TTO(|)6kos. 

 XAflPEY'Z. An unknown bird, the statements regarding which are 

 all fabulous. 



Hesych. 6pvi6apiov xKaspou. Arist. H. A. ix. l, 609 -nokefnoi twv opvldav 

 TTOLKiXides <ai Kopv^Qives Kal niwpa Kni ;^X(Bpci'j, rpvyaiv Koi )(\a>pevs' ano- 

 KTfivei yap rrjv rpvyova 6 )(\a)pevs. Hostile to rpvywv, also in Ael. v. 48 J 

 to Tpvyav and Kopa^, Phile, De An. Pr. 690 ; to coj-viis, Plin. x. (74) 95 

 noctu invicem ova exquirentes. Supposed by Gesner and Sundevall 

 to be identical with x^wpi'wp', and by Gaza with x^<«'pis, q. v. 



XAflPl'Z. The Greenfinch, Frmgilla Moris, L. ]Mod. Gk. ^Xo'pi, 



^linpi (Erh.p. 44, Von derMiihle, p. 47), in Attica o-7riyya'ptos (Heldr.). 

 Cf. It. verdone, &c. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis aK(oXT]K.o<jidyos. lb. ix. 13, 615 b ra Kara 

 e;)^6t fi>XP^' r]\iKov earl KopvBos' TiKvei coa rerrapa tj nevre' veoTTiav Troie'irai 

 eK Tov avp(pvTov eXKovaa npoppi^ov, crTpapara S' viro^iiWei rpixas koi fpia. 

 The cuckoo lays in its nest, which is placed in a tree, ibid. 29, 618. 



Ael. iv. 47 XXcopt? ovop.a opvidos, {jwep ovv ovk av ak\axi}6ev TTOiTjcraiTO 

 TijV KaXuiv 7j eK TOV XfyofMevov avpipvTov' '4cm 8e pi^a to aip(f)VTOv (vpe6rjva.L 

 re Ka\ opv^ai ;^aXf7r;}. (rrpoDfxvrjV de v7ro/3dXXerat rpi^as urn i'pia. Kal 6 p.ev 

 OrjXvs bpvis ovTco KeKkr]Tai, 6 8e apprjv, ^Xc^picovn KoXovatv avTvv, Ka\ ecTTi tov 

 ^lov p7])^aviK6s, jxaBe'iv re irav o ti ovv aynBos, kuI tXtj^cov vnoixe'ivai ttjv iv tc3 

 fiavBdveiv ^dcravov, orav dXw. Ka\ bia pev tov ;)(et/xa)i'Oj acf^fTov Kn\ eXfvdepov 

 OVK av iSot Tis avTov, rjpival Se otov vndp^oavTai TponaX tov erovs, rrjviKavT 

 av eTTLCpaivoLTO, ApKTOvpus T€ eneTdXev, 6 8e dj'a;^a)p€t es Ta 0iKe7a, onodev 

 Kal 8evpo eaTuXt]. 



According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, 

 daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird xXwp/y. 



On the plant avpcpvTov see also Diosc. iv. 10, Fraas, Fl. CI., p. 163. 

 Lindermayer, I.e., p. 62, says that the Greenfinch builds abundantly in 

 the olive-groves of Attica, making its nest always of the same material, 



