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KATAPPAKTHI (continued}. 



169. In Aristotle, said to be a sea-bird, but not web-footed: mentioned 

 as opvis Trorapoy, Aristoph. H. A. Epit. i. 24, and tfaXuo-o-io?, ib. i. 23. 



Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 TOV o-rdpi^oi; CX L (vpvv KOI TrXarvv o\ov. Ib. ix. 

 12, 615 opvis o~xiCo7rovs' fj p.(v Trepi $uXaTrc>, orav &e KUC% O.VTOV (is TO 

 XP OVOV OVK eXdrTova f) oo~ov nXedpov die\doi TIS' eo~Ti 8' eXarrov 

 From this account and from its mention in ii. 17, between 

 TO. o-xi&TToda (con's) and ra (TTeyavoiroda (Xdpos), Aubert and Wimmer 

 identify KarappaKTrjs with Podiceps auritus, the Eared Grebe, Mod. Gk. 

 KapauaTaiKiov (Erh. p. 48) ; Sundevall, on the other hand, with the Little 

 Cormorant, Phalacrocorax or Graculus pygmaeits (vide icoXoios, J3). 

 Neither of these birds, however, suggests by its habits the name 

 KaTappaKTTjs : and neither is white in colour, so that they at least conflict 

 with the following excerpt from Dion. De Avib. ii. 2 cos ot T>V Xdpuv e'Xdcr- 

 crovfs, la"xyp os &* Kct ^ T *l v XP oav Xev/cdy, Kat rails ras (pdo~cras dvaipovcriv iepai 

 npoaro/jioios . . . (is TOV TVOVTOV ola TTITTT^V otWrai . . . Tols (TKOTreXois Kat TO'IS 

 alyia\ols ((pi(dvei. Further, a fabulous account of the breeding-habits. 

 According to the same author (iii. 22) aaviviv (iKovas eVi-ypa^aj/res i^ycov 

 TOVS KaTappaKTas' criV 6pp,fj yap cos eVi Tiva KUTdTTTavTes l\6vv 

 TOIS (raviai KOI diafpOdpovTm. These accounts are usually 

 applied to the Gannet or Solan Goose, Sula bassana (cf. Oedmann, Act. 

 Acad. Stockh., vii. 1786, Schneid. in Arist. vol. ii. p. 88) ; but the size 

 is incompatible with such an identification, and the bird is not a native 

 of Greece. The account in Plin. x. (44) 51 is wholly fabulous, and 

 includes the story of the Birds of Diomede, ot KaTctpdo-vovaiv els ras 

 TO>V ftapfidpcov K((pa\ds, Arist. De Mirab. 79, 836 a ; cf. Ael. i. i, and 

 vide s. v. epwSio's. 



Gesner, who is followed in modern ornithological nomenclature and 

 by the lexicographers, identified /carappaKrrjs with the Skua, Lestris 

 catarrhactes, L., a bird which does not occur in the Mediterranean. 



KATPEY'l. An unknown or mystical bird. 



Cleitarch. fr. 18, ap. Ael. xvii. 23 /ueyetfor Trpos TOV racov* ra 8e aKpa 

 rS)V nTp(ov (OIKS cT/uapciyScp Kal 6pS>v p,(V a'XXcos, OVK oldas olovs 6<p6a\- 

 fjiovs cx l ' et ' &* *L S a * aTTi'Soi, epeis Kivvdfiapiv TO o/Lt/Lia, K.r.X. Cf. Strabo, 

 XV. i. 69. Nonn. Dion. xxvi. 206 Karpeus S' eWo/ieVoio irpoticcnri&i xv~ tv 

 o'/ijSpou | av6o<pvr]S \iyv<pa>vos' OTTO /3Xe(papcoi> de oi a'lyXr] | Tre/LtTrerat, op- 

 Bpivfjai ftoXais dvrippOTros TJOVS. | TroXXdici S' f)vefJi6(VTos vnep 8(vSpoio 

 \iyaivav, | trvvdpovos copiWos dveir\(K. ydrova fjLoKirrjv | (poiviKeais TTTepv- 

 yco-o-i K(Ka(rp.(vos' rj Ta^a (patrjS) | fteX7rop.ej/ov KaTprjos eco'iov vpvov dtfovuv, | 

 opdpiov alo\68eipov drjftova KS>p.ov v(paiveiv. 



The description of the plumage in Aelian has suggested to some 

 commentators the Manal or Impeyan Pheasant, Lophopus impeyanus 

 (cf. Val. Ball, Ind. Antiq., xiv. 305, 1885), which bird is very possibly 



