70 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



IAIAI (continued}. 



are transferred to iXXay. Both the Redwing and the Fieldfare are 

 now winter-migrants in Greece, and not very common (Kriiper, Linder- 

 mayer, &c.). The word was probably an old or dialectic form, meaning 

 simply thrush, to which it was sought to apply a specific meaning 

 in Aristotle. * 



'IMANTO'nOYI. A wading-bird; the name is now allotted to the 

 Stilt. 



Dion. De Avib. ii. 9 a * ^' ipavTcnroo'es XeTrroI? p.ev o~<e\eo~i xpcovrai, KCU 

 e^ov(ri TTJV Trpoo~r)yopiav CK TOVTOV. KCIIVOV S' eV avrfov eo~Ttv, on T/)I> Karatdev 

 yevvv %ovT(s ireTrrjyviav, JJLOVOV KIVOVO~I TTJV avadev. Cf. Plin. x. 47 (64). 



'INAIKO'I "OPNII. The Phoenix (q. v.), Aristid. ii. p. 107 ; cf. Creuzer, 

 Symbolik, ii. p. 167. 



"IN YE' opvcov TI, w xpcoi/rai ot (papp.aKides, Hesych. Vide S. V. tuyl. 



'lEOBO'POI, or igo(pdyos, Athen. 65 a (*os = viscum, mistletoe, cf. 

 Ital. vi'scada, the Missel- thrush). 



The Missel-thrush, Turdus vtscivorus, L. Mod. Gr. Kipiaplva (v. d. 

 Miihle), Sej/Sporo-t'xXa on Parnassus, Kvpa Elprjvr) in Eurytania, 

 powoTo-ix^a in Laconia (Heldreich). The only one of the true 

 thrushes resident in Greece throughout the year (Kriiper). 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 20, 617. Vide s. v. KixXtj. 



'innAAEKTPYfi'N* TOV p.fyav a\KTpvova } rj TOV ypa(pop.evov tv 



7Tpi(rTpa>fj.a(ri. ypafyovrai 8e olov ypvnes. evioi yvrra, Hesych. 

 Cf. Ar. Ran. 932 (959), Pax 1177, Av. 800 TOV govdbv t 

 cf. Aesch. Myrm. fr. 130, &c., &c. 



Note. The epithet {-ovOos is applied to various creatures, e.g. aj 

 d\Kv<av, xeXiScov, /zeXio-cra, Terrt|, all of which agree in being closely linked 

 with religious symbolism. The meaning of the adjective is quite un- 

 known. With the various conjectures of modern commentators cf. 

 Photius : j-ovOov' XeTrrov, drraXov, eXcxppov, xXoopdV, vypov, av66v t Ka\6v, 

 ITVKVOV, o^u, Taxy. ol 8e TroiKiXov, eveiSes, dtavyes. 



opvcov TTOIOV, irapa7r\r)o~iov ^vaXcaTreKt, Hesych. 



, (s. tirira, s. iirTtt, s. lira). 6 Spvo/coXax^, cdvix&s, Hesych. The 

 root is supposed to be trr, Lat. ic-o (Vanicek 82), cf. LTTOS ; and 

 the word is taken to be identical with mirw (q. v.) ; but the irra 

 suggests identity with O-ITTTJ. 



Doubtless identical also with iimr], Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 21 KOI 

 eo~Tiv dyadbs OVTOS 6 opvis eVl Orjpav 'IOVTI. 



