AHAQN AirOKE4>AAOI. 15 



AfriQOS (also aiyiyflos). An unknown and mythical bird, identified 

 by the older commentators (e. g. Belon) with the Linnet. 



Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609, 610 oVo> iroXc'/uor (cf. Antig. Hist. Mirab. 58 

 (63) ; Ael. H. A. v. 48 ; Dion. De Avib. i. 12 ; Phile 696 ; Plin. x. 95). 



TroXefuoi 5e KOI avQos Kal aKav&is KOI cuyidos. Ib. ix. 15, 6l6b eu/SiWo? 

 KOI TroXvTfKvns, TOV 7roSa ^coXoff. [Many MSS. have alyioBos : for ^coXd? 

 some texts read o>xP s > or ^Xcopoy, the latter Albertus Magnus, but cf. 

 aiyiOos dpcpiyvrjeis, Callim. fr. ap. Antig. 1. c. ; Plin. x. (8) 9.] Xe'yercu 8' 

 on alyidov KCU avdov alp-a ov (rv/z/ztywrai aXX^Xois : idem, Pliny X. (74) 

 95 (who calls it avis minima), Ael. H. A. x. 32, and Phile 432, the 

 same statement of aKavQis and alyidaXos, and Antig. H. M. 106 (114) 

 the same of atyidos and aKavdts. Dion. De Avib. iii. 14 Qrjparai KXo>/3o5, 

 V eo TraXat drjpadels eWpoy eirl TO (3oav KaTaxXeifrat. Antig. H. M. 45 (5*)j 

 how atyidos sucks the goats (v. alyoOfaas) and is xo>Xo'?. [Aegithus 

 solo nomine huic nostrae aetati cognitus, P. Hardouin, Annott. ad 

 Plin. x. 8.] Vide s. vv. 



A Macedonian name for the Eagle. Etymol. M. 



AITOOH'AAI. The Goatsucker or Nightjar, Caprimulgus euro- 

 paeus, L. 



The name is probably corrupt, and the mythical attribute of the bird 

 due to a case of ' Volksetymologie.' 



M. Gk. name -yido/3ucrrpa is a corrupt translation of alyo6fj\as (Heldr. 

 p. 37). Also called /Sufaorpa, wKTpi8a (i. e. the Bat, v. d. Miihle), WK- 

 Tondrrjs, and TT\UVOS (Erh.). (Cf. Germ. Ziegenmelker, Kuhmelker, Fr. 

 tette-ckevre, &c.) 



Arist. H. A. ix. 30, 6l8b opvis 6pew6s, p-ncpw ptifav Korrixpou, KoKKvyos 

 e'Xarrcoj;* wo dvo [cf. Lindermayer, p. 38, Kriiper, p. 183, &c.] rj rpia" TO 

 Se rjffos P\aiuK6s [verb, dub., cf. Aub. and Wimm. in Arist. 1. c.]. &jX4 

 8e ras alyas. OVK O^UCOTTOS TTJS tyftcpof. Ael. H. A. iii. 39 roX^pdraroy 

 q>a)i> .... tmriforcu rais atgi Kara TO Kaprepov, KOL rols ovQcunv avrS>v 

 7rpoo"7r6To/Mej/oj elra Kp.vd TO -yaXa .... Tv<p\ol TOV fj-aaTov, KUI OTroo'jSeVj'VO't 

 TTJV cueWev eiripporjv. Cf. Plin. x. 56 (40). Vide S.vv. alyiOaXos, aiytOos. 



AlTOKE^AAOI. Probably a kind of Owl: perhaps the Horned or 

 Long-eared Owl, Strix otus, L., or its small ally Ephialtes scops, 

 K. Bl. The latter is the Asio of Plin. x. (23), xxix. 38, which name 

 in its Italian diminutive form is Shelley's ' Sad Aziola/ 



Arist. H. A. ii. 15, 506 o\a>s oi'K e^ TOV o-7r\ijva' TrjV xo\f)V e^ei Trpoff TO 

 i^TraTt Kai Trpoy TTJ KotXta. Ib. ii. 17, 509 TOV o-Top-a^ov e^ei evpvTepov TO 

 KUTCO. 



Gesner (p. 62) mentions Capriceps as an unknown bird. Neither 

 Sundevall nor Aubert and Wimmer pronounce an opinion on it : the 



