54 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



'ENOY'IKOI' 6 d<r(pd\6s, TO opvcov, Hesych. 



"EFIIZA- opvfa, Kwpioi, Hesych. (<nriia, conj. Salmas.) 



'EniAAl 1 *!. An unknown small bird. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis o-Ka>\r)Ko<pdyos. Sylburge, Schneider, 

 Piccolos and others read irrroXats, q. v. 



'EniAEfOI, s. emXeos. A bird of prey, perhaps the Buzzard, Buteo 

 vidgaris, Bechst. 



Plin. H. N. x. 9 epileum Graeci vocant qui solus omni tempore 

 apparet, caeteri hieme abeunt (vide s. v. aladXwi/). This passage, 

 following on a reference to Buteo, and stating a fact recorded by 

 Aristotle of rpiop^s (q. v.), suggests that all three are identical. 

 Perhaps connected with, or a mere variant of, eXeio's- or Aetos, q. v. 



'Eno'AIOI. fldos opveov wKrepivov, Suid. Ambiguum an illud, quod ab 

 Aristotele alya>\i6s, H. St. Thesaur. App. p. 942 E. 



Note. We have above (IXcuos, eXe'a eXeos, cmXcus, emXcios) 



a succession of bird-names all very similar, whose meaning and deri- 

 vation are alike obscure. 



The Hoopoe, Upupa epops, L. Hesych. has also 6770770?, 



opveov '. errojTra, aXeKTpvova aypiov '. and also a7ra<f)6s. 



Mod. Gk. Ta\oTTT(iv6s or ro-aXoTremj/o's (Erhard, Heldreich), dypio- 

 (Boch., Jonston ; still on Mt. Taygetus, Heldr.), dypwKOKopag 

 (v. d. Miihle). eVo^ is, in form, onomatopoeic, like upupa> but is very 

 probably based on an Egyptian solar name, ""ATroTrir, 'HXtov dSe\(p6$, 

 Plut. De Is. xxxvi ; with which cfSEncxpos Herod, ii. 153, &c., &c.; also 

 "ETTI^I, Plut. Is. et Os. lii. p. 372 B : the form dncKpas preserved in 

 Hesychius is identical with the name used by the Syriac Physiologist. 

 For fanciful derivation see Aesch. fr. 305 en-or//- eVoTn-T?? T&V avrov K.a<wv : 

 cf. Hesych. s. v. See also s. vv. Kouicoitya, irouiros. 



First mentioned by Epicharm. ap. Athen. ix. 391 D (fr. 116, Ahrens) 

 CTK.5>7ra$ fTTOTras yXavxas. 



Description. Arist. H. A. i. 488 b opvis opeior, cf. ix. n. 615 a (vide 

 Boch. Hier. ii. p. 343 for similar interpretation of Heb. or Arab, dukiphat, 

 duk kepha, gallus montanus). H. A. ix. 15, 616 b OVK e^a T^S y\<arTT)s TO 

 6v, vide s. vv. dY]8wy, (ULeXayKopu^os : cf. Giebel, Z. f. ges. Naturw. 

 X. 236. Pausan. x. 4 6 8e erro^f es ov e^ei \6yos TOP Trjpea aXhayrjvai, 

 peyedos p,v o\iyov to~T\v inrep oprvya, eTTi rfj K(pa\fj 8e cl TO. Trrepa es Xd^ou 

 o-xni^a e|^prai. Cf. Ar. Av. 94, 99, 279; Ovid, Metam. vi. 671 cui stant 

 in vertice cristae, Prominet immodicum pro longo cuspide rostrum, 

 Plin. x. (65) 36 cum fetum eduxere abeunt. Is destructive to bees, Phil. 

 De An. 712. 



