AirOKE4>AAOZ AIOYIA 1 7 



AirflAIOI (continued'). 



[here Camus, reading m'ro>Xios, and following Belon and Buffon, trans- 

 lates Milmts niger, the Black Kite]. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 17, 6l6b VVKTIVO^LOS eVrt, KOL fjpepas oXiyaKis (paiverat. 

 otKel Trerpas KOI (nrrj\vyyas' eon yap dida\\os [Gaza tr. vtctus gemini, 

 Guil. divaricately v. Aub. and Wimm. ii. p. 248], r^v 8e didvoiav /SiomKoy 

 KOL cv/jiTjxavos. Ib. vi. 6, 562 eViore de Kal Terrapas ft-dyei VCOTTOVS [Plin. 

 x. 79 (60)]. 



The metamorphosis of Aegolius, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. Met. 19. 



If 8i6a\\os means particoloured, mya>Atos is clearly the White or 

 Barn Owl, Strix flammea, L., as Littre' (ad Plin.) takes it to be ; 

 it however does not catch birds, and is said to be scarce in Greece 

 (v. d. Miihle, Lindermayer). Gesner transl. by ulula, and identifies 

 it with the Tawny Owl. Sundevall librates between the Tawny and 

 the Barn Owl ; A. and W. incline to the former. See cuyoKe^aXos, 

 eiroXios. 



Ar0YIA. A poetic word, of uncertain or indefinite meaning. 



Probably a large Gull, e. g. Larus marinus, the Black-backed Gull 

 (Sundevall), or L. argentatus, the Herring Gull (Kriiper), the former 

 being rare in Greece. Netolicka's hypothesis of the Merganser, and 

 that of Groshans that it was a Diver or Grebe, do not tally with 

 Aristotle : Schneider's identification with the Skua, Lestris parasiticus, 

 fails, inasmuch as the latter does not dive (vide Buchholz, op. c. pp. 112, 

 113) nor does it breed in the Mediterranean. The Herring Gull is 

 abundant during the winter and breeds about the middle of April : 

 the Common Tern (Sterna anglica) lays about the same time (Kriiper) 

 but in the lagoons and not on the cliffs. 



Od. v. 337, 353. Arist. H. A. v. 9, 542 b 17 5' aWvia KO\ 01 \dpoi TLKTOVO-I 

 jj.ev fV Tals rrepi daXarrav Trerpais, TO /xeV 7r\rjdos dvo r) rpia' aXX' 6 /xeV 

 Xapoy TOU 6epovs y 17 8' aWvia dp\op.evov rot) capos [cf. Mergus, Plin. x. 32 

 (48)] evOvs fK rpoirav. ovdcTfpov 8e (pa)\vi. Also i. i, 487 ] viii. 3, 593 b. 

 Arrian, Peripl., ed. Didot, 1855, i. p. 398, names it with Xapoi and 

 Kopwi/at ai $aXa(nricu, and Hesych. renders diOviai by eivdXiai Kopwvai. 

 Frequent in the Gk. Anthol. ; e. g. Glauc. vi, vol. iii. p. 58 cSXero yap 

 criiv 1/771, ra ' oore'a nov rror' eKfivov f TrvQerai, aldviais yvaxTra p.ovais eveneiv, 

 cf. Marc. Arg. xxxi, ibid. ii. p. 250 ; Callim. xci ; Leon. Tar. xci, Gk. 

 Anthol. i. p. 178 TQV aldvirfs 7rXei'oi/a vij^d^evov : Anon. ibid. iv. p. 143 

 arjpayyos aXiKrvnov os rode vaieis evori/Sey atdviais i^^u/3oXoi(7i terras, 

 Phile, De Anim. Pr. 680, is hostile to neXapyos and Kp'. Is said to 

 be deaf and dumb, Aristoph. Hist. Anim. Epit. i. 141. 



The metamorphosis of Hyperippa, daughter of Munychus, Nicander 

 ap. Anton. Lib. Met. 14. 



Arat. Phen. 918, a sign of rain ; TroXXaKi? 8' dypidSa vf)cr<rai 



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