36 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



APF1H (continued}. 



veoTTta TO. TWV aXfKTopidav, and Sundevall makes Harpe the Black Kite, 

 Milvus ater, or M. parasiticus. Aubert and Wimmer suspect apirr) to 

 be a large Gull (Larus}. For other hypotheses, vide Buchholz p. 137. 



'AIBHNOl'- opvtBfs, Hesych. Possibly akin to O-TTWOS. 



"All AON- epoSioV, Hesych. Heb. HTDH, chasidah, the Stork. Cf. 

 Boch. Hieroz. ii. 321-326. 



'AIKA'AA4>OZ. An unknown bird, mentioned Arist. H. A. ii. 12 as 

 possessing colic coeca (d-nofpvdftas). 



Usually translated Owl, from the story of the Metamorphosis of 

 Ascalaphus, Ovid, Met. v. 539 Foedaque Jit volucris, venturi nuncia 

 Indus, Ignavus bilbo, diruin mortalibus omen. Cf. Apollodor. ii. p. 107 

 'AaKoXixpov ovv ArjfjL-fjTTjp ftroftpro' &TOV '. Serv. ad Aen. iv. 462. The mys- 

 tical aspect of the story is briefly indicated by Creuzer, Symbolik, iv. 

 378. [Quaenam sit avis, neque ex Aristotele neque ex Plinio aut ex 

 Aeliano deprehendere potuimus. Sed Ovidius inter fabulas ostendit 

 esse bubonis speciem : Scaliger in Arist.] 



'AIKAAH'nAI. (daK^XoTras, Arist. MS. O). Probably identical with 

 <7KoAo7ra, q. v. The Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola. 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 26, 6l7b iv Tols KIJTTOIS dXi'o-Kerru Ip/ceo-iy, TO p-ey^dos 

 fi&ov dXfKTopis, TO pvy%os p,ciKpoV) TO xpa)p.a opoiov arrayfji/r rpe^fi Se Ta\v. 

 The Woodcock according to v. d. Miihle and Lindermayer is very 

 abundant in Greece in November. Aubert and Wimmer rather identify 

 d<TKa\a>nas with the Curlew, 



'AXTEPI'AI. 



I. An Eagle = x/jvo-aero?, Ael. ii. 39. In Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 

 620, mentioned as yeW ifpaKw, and usually identified with the 

 Goshawk. 



Cf. Scaliger in Arist. p. 249 : aorrptav vertit Theodosius stellarem . . . 

 d(TTpiav igitur puto nostrum asturem : ut enim punctis quibusdam 

 tanquam stellis totus pictus in pectore. This identification, though 

 adopted by Sundevall, is inacceptable. aartpLas is said to be the 

 largest of the eagles, and to feed on fawns, cranes, and in Crete, bulls ; 

 like xpixraeros it seems to be used not of the actual bird but as a symbol, 

 probably astronomical. 



II. A bird of the Heron kind, supposed, for a similar and equally 

 unsatisfactory reason, to be the Bittern, Ardea stellaris, L. 



It is only mentioned in connexion with an Egyptian myth, probably 

 relating to the Stork ; and the name itself is in all probability foreign 

 and corrupt (cf. 



