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The cry represented, e7ro7ro7ro7ro7ro7ro7ro7ro7ro7rot, Ar. Av. 227, &c. Vv. 

 237, 243, 260 rto rto &c., though incorporated in the same speech, are 

 evidently from the nightingale and other birds behind the scenes : 

 Kifoca/3a{5, v. 261, is the owl's hoot. 



Nest. Arist. H. A. vi. I, 559 a povos ou Trout-rat veornav ru>v KaO* eavra 

 veoTTfVovTwv, a\\' el&dvofjievos els ra o-reAe^jj ev Tols KOI\OIS avraiv -rue-ret, 



eV (TV[Ji,<f)opovp.vos. Ib. ix. 15, 6l6b veoTTiav TToteirat K rrjs avdpcojrivrjs 

 According to Heldreich (p. 38) the Hoopoe is a spring and 

 autumn migrant through Greece, but does not now breed there : it 

 however seems to breed in Macedonia and perhaps in Epirus (Kriiper). 

 The story of the nest e* Konpov av0pa>7rii>r)s (also in Ael. H. A. iii. 26) 

 arises (i) from the Hoopoe's habit of seeking its insect food among 

 dung (avis obscoeno pastu, Plin. H. N. x. 29 ; cf. Fr. coq puant, Germ. 

 Kothhahn, <Stinkhahn, Mistvogel, &c.), and (2) from the nest having 

 an evil smell from the accumulation within of excrement, and perhaps 

 also from a peculiar secretion of the birds (see for scientific references, 

 Aub. and Wimm. i. p. 91). 



Myth and Legend. The Tereus-myth (see also s. v. dTjSwf, dXidcrog, 

 XcXiSwy) Aesch. fr. 297, in Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 633 a (more probably 

 from the lost Sophoclean tragedy of Tereus, cf. Schol. Ar. Av. 284, 

 Welcker, Gr. Trag. i. 384) TOVTOV ' erroTrrrjv enona TU>V avrov K(i<a,v \ 

 TTTroiKiXa>Ke Ka7ro8r]\(0<ras e^ei | dpatrvv Trerpalov opviv ev iravrevxia' \ os r/pi 

 p.ev (fravevri SiarraXXei nrcpov \ KipKov \7rdpyov' K. r. X. Cf. Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 15, 617 a, and 496, 633 a T^y Ideav /uera/SdXXa roO Oepovs KOI TOV 

 Xeipuvos, Plin. x. (30) 44. With the phrase eTroTrrrjv TWV avroO KQK&V, cf. 

 Plat. Phaedo p. 86 A <a<7t dia XVTTTJV adciv : also Ach. Tat. V. 5 6 Trjpevs 

 opvis yivfTdi' Kal Trjpov&i en TOV nddovs rfjv eiKova. In the use of the 

 word eVoTrrjy?, we have not merely a fanciful derivation of eVo^, but also 

 an allusion to the mysteries. 



In this very obscure story we have frequent indications of confusion 

 between Hoopoe and Cuckoo, and the 'metamorphosis' is in part 

 connected with the resemblance between the Cuckoo and the Hawk ; 

 cf. Arist. vi. 7, Theophr. H. PI. ii. 6, Geopon. xv. i, 22, Plin. H. N. 

 x. 8, ii. See also Lenz, Zool. d. Gr. u. R. p. 318. For the relations 

 between Hoopoe and Cuckoo, der Kuckuk und sein Kiister, v. Grimm, 

 D. M. p. 646, Grohmann, Aberglaube aus Bohmen, Leipzig, 1864, 

 p. 68, &c. On the metamorphosis of the Cuckoo into a Hawk in 

 English and German Folk-lore, see Swainson, Provincial Names of 

 British Birds, p. 113. 



How the Hoopoe first appeared at Tereus' tomb in Megara, Paus. 

 i. 41, 9. The Tereus-myth also in Aesch. Suppl. 60, Apollod. iii. 14, 

 Ach. Tat. v. 5, Ovid, Metam. vi, &c. 



