38 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



ATTAPAI (continued}. 



fie Ka.T(iypa(f)os rot Trepl TO VMTOV, Kepap-eovs rrjv %poav viroTrvppifav p.a\\ov. 

 6rjpfvfTai fie VTTO Kvvrjywv fiia TO fidpos Kai TTJV TWV TrrepStv /Spa^ur^Ta. (Cf. 

 Dion. De Avib. iii. IO.) e'ori fie KOVKTTIKOS, 7ro\vreK.v6s re icai OTrepjuoXd'yoy. 

 Schol. in Ar. Av. 250 6 drrayas 6 e^coi> TUV \ip.)va TOV Mapadwvos. TO. 

 yap \ip,voaftr) KCU eXeia ^copia KaTa/3oV/ceTai 6 drrayay. It is friendly with 

 the stag, Opp. Cyneg. ii. 404. 



Proverbs. array as vovp,r]viq> [crwep^frai], Trapot/zia eVi ra>v 

 Suid. s. v. drrayas, Hesych. s. v. vov^vios, Schol. Ar. Av. 762. Cf. 

 Timon ap. Diog. L. ix. 16. 6, Paroem. Gr. i. p. 307, ii. pp. 16, 212 (Scaliger 

 in Prov. metricis). Ar. Vesp. 257 TOV TnjXoi/ wa-nep drrayas rvp@a<Tis 

 /3a5i^o)i/. Proverbial as a delicacy : Ar. IlfXapyoif in Athen. 388 b drrayas 

 fyeiv (v fTriviKiois Kpeas. Phoenicid. 4. 509 Kovbev rjv TOVTM rrpos 

 pftaXriv r&v /SpcopiTcov. Martial, xiii. 61 Inter sapores fertur 

 alitum primus, lonicarum gustus attagenarum. Cf. Ovid, F. vi. 175, Hor. 

 Epod. ii. 54 ; Plin. x. 48 ; Apicius, De Re Coquin. vi. 3 ; Aul. Cell. 

 Noct. Att. vii. 16, c. Mentioned also, Hippon. fr. ap. Athen. 1. c. 



The Francolin does not now occur in Greece or Italy, though it is 

 found in Crete, Cyprus, Sicily, Malta, and on the southern shores of the 

 Black Sea (Lindermayer p. 125). On this account, Sundevall and 

 others have disputed its identity with arrayas, and have identified 

 the latter with various birds, especially Perdix cinerea^ the Common 

 (or Northern) Partridge ; C. T. Newton, Cont. Rev. 1876, p. 92, taking 

 it to be Pterocles alchata^ a species of Sand-grouse. The descriptions, 

 especially that of Alex. Myndius, point distinctly to the Francolin, 

 and even Lindermayer does not doubt that the name is to be so 

 interpreted, and that the bird was formerly abundant. The record by 

 Sibthorpe of the modern Greek name, which I cannot find in more 

 recent writers, suggests that the bird has only lately disappeared from 

 Greece. According to Danford (Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. p. 124) 

 it is fast disappearing in Asia Minor also : likewise in Cyprus (Guille- 

 mard, The Field, Sept. 1892). The general disappearance of the Quail 

 in recent years from England is a parallel case. 



BAl'BYKOI' TTfXeKa^os <i\r)ras, 'Ap-fpias [5e] (SavflvKOs, Hesych. For 



other readings, v. Steph. Thes. ii. coll. 40, 41, and Schmidt's 

 Hesych. i. pp. 352, 366. 



BAIH'0. An Egyptian name for a Hawk. 



Horap. i. 7 wri ^ V X^ S te'p a rda-aerat, C'K rrjs TOV ovofiaros epfjLrjvdas' 

 KaXen-at yap Trap AlyvrrTiois 6 lepag, Ba'ifjQ. TOVTO fie TO oj/o/za diaip(6ev, 

 a-rjualvei <a\ Kapdiav' eWi yap TO /ueV /3at tyvxr], TO fie T}$ KapfitV 17 fie 

 t'a KCZT' AiyvTTTLOvs tyvxr/s vrepi'/SoXo?, <waTf ffrjuaiveiv TT]V (rvvdecriv TOV 

 ovduaros, ^fvxrjv eynapdiav' dfi ov Ka\ 6 iepag 8ta TO irpbs Trjv ^fvx^v o~vfji- 



