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APYOKOAAFITHI (continued}. 



with its close ally, P. canus ; (<:, d) the Greater and Lesser Spotted 

 Woodpeckers, P. major and minor. The Green Woodpecker is 

 described under the name KeXeo's-, and accordingly Sundevall and 

 others make the remaining two of the three Aristotelian varieties 

 to be the Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers respectively. 

 But as P. viridis, whether it had another name or not, would certainly 

 be still classed as dpvoKoXiiirTrjs, it is better to take it as the middle- 

 sized sort, uniting the Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers as 

 the last and least variety. 



The Woodpecker is not in Greek, as it is in Latin (e. g. Ov. Met. xiv. 

 321, F. iii. 37, 54, Virg. Aen. vii. 191, Plin. x. 18 (20), Plut. Q. Rom. xxi. 

 268 F, Romulus iv; Aug. Civ. Dei, xiii. 15), a bird of great mythological 

 importance, though the Dryopes were probably, like the descendants of 

 Picus, a Woodpecker-tribe. It figures in the oriental Samir-legend 

 (vide s. v. eiroij/) in Ael. i. 45 as making its nest in a tree, and, by 

 virtue of a certain herb, removing a stone with which one shall have 

 blocked up the entrance ; cf. Plin. x. (18) 20, xxv. 5 ; Plut. p. 269 ; 

 Dion. De Avib. i. 14 ; and is accordingly spoken of as a rival power 

 to eVo^ in Ar. Av. 480. Cf. Alb. Magnus, De Mirab. 1601, p. 225. See 

 also Baring-Gould, Myths of the Middle Ages, p. 397. The Woodpecker 

 and the Hoopoe come into relation also in the version of the Tereus- 

 myth given by Boios ap. Anton. Lib. Met. II, where the brother of 

 Ae'don is transformed into the bird CTTO^, and her husband into 



APY'CW. A Woodpecker = fyvo/coXaTrrjjs, Ar. Av. 304. 



AY'riTHI. A diving bird, identical with aWvia (q. v.), ewot 

 Etym. M. 



Callim. 167, ap. Etym. M. 8vnrai r e a\bs tpx&fuvot ; with which cf. 

 Arat. 9^4? S. V. epojSios. Lye. 73 OTeva> (re, Trarpa, KOI T<i(f)ovs 'ArXai/rt'Sos', 

 dvTTTov KeXoapo?. Applied to a professional diver or sponge-fisher in 

 Opp. Hal. ii. 436, and possibly also, therefore, in the preceding reference. 



Cf. 



AYTfNOI. An unknown water-bird. Dion. De Avib. ii. 13, iii. 24. 

 El'AAAl'l, also iSuX/y. opvis voids, Hesych. 



"EAAIOI s. eXaios. According to Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ii. 65 B 

 a kind of alyi6a\6s or titmouse, called by some trvppias (MS. 



7riptas\ crvKaXis S' fon dXi'oveercuJ orav a.Kp.dr) TO. crvKa. Conj. in Anth. 



Pal. vii. 199 ed. Mackail xi. 13 <i'\' eXaie. Probably one of the 

 many Warblers which frequent the olive-gardens, e.g. Salicaria 

 olivetorum, Strickl., and S. elaeica, Linderm. (v. Lindermayer, 

 pp. 88-92). 



