flTIZ— iiTOZ 201 



fJTOZ continued^. 



vovTii' KaL rnxeais aXiaKovrai. A less absurd version, ibid. 391 a ; cf. 

 Pint. Mor. ii. 961 E. Hence coror, one easily taken in, a 'gull.' 



Plin. X. (23) 33 Otus bubone minor est, noctuis maior, auribus plumeis 

 eminentibus, unde et nomen illi ; quidam Latine asionem vocant : 

 imitatrix avis ac parasita, et quodam genere saltatrix, &;c. 



Casaubon and others, followed by Lidd. and Sc, state that Athenaeus 

 confounds wtos with wtU: There is indeed a confusion in the text, due 

 to the interpolation in 360 d fjufMrjTiKov 8e ean, k.t.X., between two state- 

 ments referring to wt/s- ; but the respective statements as to aros and 

 uTis are correct. 



The Short-eared Owl is indicated in the following statements : 

 (l) as a migratory bird ; (2) as associated with the quails, i.e. a bird 

 of the open country; (3) as being diurnal and not nocturnal. The 

 commentators have often fallen into error from ignorance of the habits 

 of the Short-eared Owl : e. g. Gesner, z'n gallinis, de otide, ' nocturnam 

 avem aut noctuae similem nullam migrare arbitror.' (Certain other 

 species are, at least, partially migratory ; cf. [int. al.) Giglioli, Avif. 

 Ital., 1886, pp. 227, 228, &c.) 



In Arist. H. A. viii. 12, and in Plin. I.e. there appears to be some 

 confusion with the Long-eared or Common Horned Owl, Strix otus, L. 



