1 8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AI0YIA (continued}. 



aWviai xepo-cua TLvaa-arovrai TrTtpvyco-aiv : cf. Theophr. De Sign. ii. 28, 

 Virg. Georg. i. 362. 



A long but unsatisfactory description in Dion. De Avib. ii. 5. 



A title or epithet of Athene, Paus. i. 5. 3, i. 41. 6. 



Said to be the name of a horse in Mnasalc. xiii. Gk. Anthol. i. p. 125. 



See also SUTTTTJS, Xcipos. 



Al"E. An unknown bird. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b : mentioned 



between xr?i/aXa>7n7 and 7rr)ve\o\^ as One of the opvidfs o-reyai/oVoSes 



ftapvTfpoi (omitted in several MSS.). 



According to Belon the Plover (Vanellus cristatus) was so called 

 in Greece in his time: the interpretation cannot hold. Sundevall 

 9 conjectures ai' to be one of the smaller Geese (? Anser leucopsis\ and 

 to be derived from the goat-like cry. Perhaps as alyoKc(pa\os suggests 

 the Horned Owl, so nt here suggests the Horned Grebe, Podiceps 

 auritus, Lath., a common bird in Greece in winter. 



AI'PIGAKO'X. Vide S. vv. auraicos, epiOaicos. 

 AriAKOI. A very doubtful word. 



KaXelrat Se KCU TO a>oi/ 6 alpiQaKos aio*aKoy, Etym. M. Cf. Serv. in 



Aen. iv. 254, v. 128. 



Al'XA'AfiN (alaap&v, Hesych.). A sort of Hawk, traditionally identified 

 with -the Merlin, Falco aesalon, L. (Gesner, &c.). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 62O T>V Se icpaKuv devrepos [rfj Kparia]. Ib. 

 ix. I, 609 b alyvTricS iroXepios' aXo>7rKi rroXe/ito? Kal KopciKi. Ael. H. A. 

 ii. 51 p.d\Tai 5' 6 K.6pa KOI opvidi tcr^upaJ TO) KaX. atcraXcoi't, /cat orav 

 ^eatr/jrai aXa>7TfKt p.a^6p.vov } Tifj-wpflrai. Cf. Antig. H. M. 59 (64)* Plin. 

 N. H. x. (74) 95 Aesalon vocatur parva avis, ova corvi frangens, 

 cuius pulli infestantur a vulpibus. Invicem haec catulos eius ipsam- 

 que vellit : quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur velut adversus 

 communem hostem. (Some editors read aesalona for epileum> Plin. 

 N. H. x. 9.) 



'AKAAANOl'l' eiSo? opveov /nt/cpoO, Suid. Vide S.W. dKa^Ois, dKar'OyXXis. 



Ar. Pax 1078 17 KcoScof a.Ka\av6is (Schol. XctXoi> -yap TO wov) e7Tfi.yop.evT} 

 rv(p\a TLKTei (cf. Paroemiogr. ed. Gaisf., p. 69). Associated with Artemis, 

 Ar. Av. 871. One of the nine Emathidae, daughters of Pieros, was 

 metamorphosed into the bird aKaXavdis, Nicander ap. Anton. Lib. 

 Met. ix. 



'AKANGI'X. A small bird, usually identified with the Linnet, Fringilla 

 cannabina, L., or the Goldfinch, F. carduelis, L., on the ground of 

 the more than doubtful derivation from aitavOa. The description 



