3 2 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AAKYftN (continued-). 



tropic (cf. Ptolemy, ap. Petav. iii. 54, Kal. Jan. : Sol elevari incipit)]. 

 The risings and settings of the Pleiads and of the Dogstar were 

 apparently the chief landmarks of the ancient year, and in this con- 

 nexion the comparison with aXocrd^vr] is also suggestive. I take 

 to be a corruption, by ' Volksetymologie,' of the Egyptian 

 q", the Dog-star. Cf. Chalcid. in Timaeum Plat. f. cxxiv, ed. 

 Fabr., Cum hanc eandem stellam do-TpoKvvov quidam, Aegyptii vero 

 o-oXf^T/t/ vocant (v. Jablonsk. in Steph. Thes. and cf. Leemans in 

 Horap. i. 3). The common Egyptian name for the Dog-star is Sothi^ 

 and of this we read in Plut. De Isid. p. 375 2co0! AtyvTrrio-rl o-^/iaiWi 



KVT](TIV rj TO KVflV. 



The birds anciently associated with the season of the vernal equinox 

 are, with the exception of the Nightingale, associated with St. Martin 

 in modern times; viz. the House-martin or Martlet (cf. xeXifio>v), the 

 Harrier (cf. KtpKos}, Fr. oiseau St. Martin, and the Kingfisher, Fr. 

 martin-pecheur. It is precisely the same birds, with the addition of 

 the solar Hoopoe and Woodpecker, and with the substitution of 

 aXidfro? (q. v.) for <a'pKos, that figure together in the story of the meta- 

 morphosis of Pandareus ; Boios ap. Anton. Lib. Met. xi. 



In the calendars ascribed to Geminus (?), Columella and Ptolemy (?), 

 the Halcyon days are placed in the end of February or beginning of 

 March. I cannot account for this discrepancy, which is clearly at 

 variance with the older tradition ; unless indeed the phrase had lost its 

 meaning and was simply transferred to the season of the migration 

 of birds. 



See also s.vv. avfiuv, <xXnrop<f>upis, KTjpuXos, KTJU. 



Note. On the mystical element in the stories of d\Kvot>v and di/dap 

 cf. Lucian, Hale. OVK av e^oi/nei/ tlirfiv ftefiaias OUT' 'AXfcvovcoj/ Trepi, OUT' 

 'Ar)86v(av' K\fos 8e fj.vOa)v, olov TrapeSocrav Trnrepes 1 , TOIOI/TO KOI naKrl 

 a> opvi dprjvav /LieXcoSe, TrapaScoaco TO>V <rS)v vp.vd)V TTfpt, Kai o~ov TOV 

 KCU (pi\av$pov epami TroXXaxi? v 



"AMAAAOI- irep&ig, Ho\vppr)vioi, Hesych. 



'AMHEAl'I. An unknown bird. Ar. Av. 304. Cf. Poll. vi. 52. 



'AMHEAl'ilN. An unknown small bird mentioned together with 

 (q. v.), with epithet Koixpdraroy. Taken as identical with 



a/iTTfXiSfS- as vvv d/HTreXicoi/as KaXovcriv, J. Pollux, VI. 52 J cf. Lob. 



Prol. p. 49. In Mod. Gk. dpndKovpyos is the Black-headed Bunting, 



Called also KpaaonovXi, p.e6v(TTpa. 



'ANATKHI, S. o.vd<K\<s' opvfov TI 'ivdticov, opoiov ^dpo), Hesych. The 

 name is strongly suggestive of the Arabic and Syrian Anka or 



