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vHTTAKH {continued). 



Ael. vi. 19, xvi. 2, 15, its wisdom and vocal powers; xiii. 18, is 

 reckoned sacred among the Brahmins ; xvi. 2, is of three species. 



Dion. De Avib. i. 19 rots- ^irraKtns fie, ouf ovK iv ^vk'ivon kXqjISo'is dXX" 

 (V ai8)]pois (pfwvpelu dvayKalov, fJ-exi"- '^"'' '''H^ i]iJi.eTepns yk(x>a(Trji 6}di]yr](re ras 

 miirjaeii 1] (jivais. 



Is friendly to the wolf, 0pp. Cyn. ii. 408,409 yl/irraKos avre Xi/cot re aiiv 

 aWi]\oicn vefjLOVTai' \ alel yap nodfovai Xvkoi noecrixpoov opviv. 



The Indian parrots above alluded to are the common parrots of 

 Northern India, Psittacus {Palaeornis) Alexandri, L. (Cf. Val. Ball, 

 Ind. Antiq. xiv. p. 304, 1885.) The parrots seen by Nero's army at 

 Meroe (Plin. vi. (29) 35) must have been another species, P. cubiculans, 

 Hass, and probably all the parrots described by Roman writers (Ovid, 

 Amor. ii. 6, Statius, Silv. ii. 4, Apul. Florid. 12, Persius Prologue, and 

 even Plin. x. (42) 58) came from Alexandria and belonged to that 

 species. They are described as green by Stat., ille plagae viridis 

 regnator Eoae ; Ovid, Tu poteras virides pennis hebetare smaragdos, 

 Tincta gerens rubro Punica rostra croco, iS:c. Cf. Sundevall, op. cit., 

 pp. 126, 127. 



vH<J>ArON" ptKpou opviddpiov, Hesych. 



'ilKY'riTEPOI. An epithet of a Hawk, used specifically in Ael. xii. 4. 

 Cf. 11. xiii. 62, &c. 



'iiPl'nN, s. dpltiiv. An unknown and mystical bird. 



Clit. ap. Ael. xvii. 22 : an Indian bird, like a Heron, red-legged, 

 blue-eyed, musical, amative. Nonn. Dion. xxvi. 201 coplcou, yXvKvs opvis, 

 ofiolios €p(f)povi KvKvco. Cf. Strab. XV. 718. 



This bird, always associated with the equally mysterious Karpevs, is 

 evidently a poetic and allegorical creation, but what it signifies is 

 unknown. 



'iiJi'Z. Also ouTis, Galen, Hesych. 



The Bustard, 0//'s /arda, L. ; including also the Houbara, 0. 

 Houbara, IMod. Gk. aypioyoKXo^., Erh. ; ort'Sn, Von der JMiihle. 

 Lat. tarda, whence Bustard^ i.e. avis Tarda, Plin. x. (22) 29 

 Proximae eis (tetraonibus) sunt quae Hispania aves tardas appellat, 

 Graecia otidas. 



Description. — Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 tqv OTopaypv exei evpiv koL TrXarvv 

 oXov' aTToCpvddns e'x^'* ^'^- ^- 2) 539 '^ avyKadeiarji Tijs drjXeias enl rfju yi'jv 

 iin^aivei to lippev, lb. vi. 6, 563 eVwa^et iTep\ TpuiKovd' ijpepas (like Other 

 large birds, e.g. goose and eagle). Arist. Fr. 275, 1527 b, ap. Athen. ix. 

 390 C fcrrt fiev tcov eKTOTVi^ofrav Koi (rx'Sct'OTroScoi' Koi rptSoKriXcoj', peyedus 

 aXeKTpvovos peyaXov, xpa>pa opTvyos, K((jinXr] TVpopijKTjs, pvyxos "^v, rpdxiXos 

 XfTTTos, d(p6aXpol ptydXoi, yXcoaaa dcrTw8r]s, ivpdXojiov S' ovk. €;^ft. (This 



