80 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KH= (contimied}. 



6aXdo-aiov napaTrXrjaiov ^fXi8dj/i' evioi e Xdpov avrov Xeyovcriv, ol 8e aWviav. 

 Cf. Hesych. KTJ' 6 \dpos /caret 'Anrtcoi/a. Xeyerai 8e Kal Kavrjf-, rives <al 

 aWviav d7rodi86ao-iv' ol 8e KfTTfpov' ol 8e Si'Xfiepovra dXXqXooj/. 



Usually identified with the Gannet, Sula bassana, L. (vide s. v. 

 KaTappdKTTjs), which does not occur, save by the rarest chance, in 

 Greece. Among other more than dubious hypotheses, Netolicka 

 (Naturh. aus Homer, p. 14), with whom Buchholz, Korner, and others 

 agree, suggests the Great Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus, L., whose 

 cry is keck, keck. (Cf. s.v. KTJU|.) 



KHPY'AOI, s. KrjpvXos, s. KfipvXos (Ar. Av. 300), s. KrjpvXXos (Eustath. ad 

 Horn.), s. KipvXos (Hesych.). A doubtful, perhaps foreign, word, 

 sometimes applied to the Halcyon, sometimes compared with it. 

 Sundevall's identification of KrjpvXos with a second species which 

 occurs in Greece, Alcedo (Ceryle] rudis, the Smyrna Kingfisher, 

 is quite untenable, the poetical and mythical use of both KrjpvXos 

 and d\Kvwv being opposed to so concrete an interpretation. 

 The suggested connexion with Lat. coeruleus (O. Keller, Lat. 

 Etym., 1893, p. 15) is in equal degree improbable. 



Alcman, 12 (20) /3aXe S;;, /3aXe KrjpvXos eirjv, | os T' eVi KV/JLO.TOS avdos a/n' 

 a\Kv6v((T<ri irorrjTai | vrjXees r}rop e^tov d\tn6p<pvpos eiapos opvis. Cf. S. v. 

 dXiirop<f>upis. 



Mosch. iii. 41 ovSe roa-ov yXavKols cvl KVfj.a(ri KrjpvXos qSev. Arist. H. A. 

 viii. 3, 593 b Trtpl rrjv QaXarrav KO\ aXwow Kal KrjpvXos. Ael. v. 48 a\Kvova 

 Kal KrjpvXov nodovvras dXXfjXotv TrdXai 'icrp.fv. Ib. vii. 17 KrjpvXos 

 6(jLa>vvp.oi Kal auft^toi, Kal y^pa yf Trapeipevovs avrovs emfle/Jifvai al 

 nfpidyov&iv 7rl TG>v KaXov p.fva>v p.(o~o7TTepvyi<i)v. Cf. Antig. H. Mirab. 

 23 (27), where KrjpvXos is said to be the male kingfisher; cf. also 

 Hesych. KtpvXos' apcrr/i/ opvis o~vi>ov(Tiao~TiK6s, rives 8e d\Kvova I also 

 Tzetzes ad Lye. 387 ; Schol. Ar. Av., Schol. Theocr. vii. 57 ; Eustath. 

 ad Horn. II. i. 558. In Clearch. ap. Athen. x. 332 E, numbered among 

 TOiy opvidas rovs 7rapev8iao~ras KaXovp-evovs, with rpo^iXoy and 6 rfj KpeKi 

 npoo-ep.(pfpf)s epcoSioy. Mentioned also by Archilochus, fr. 121 ap. Ael. 

 xii. 9 Kiy<Xos Ktvel 8e Kal ra ovpala Trrepa, wcnrepovv 6 Trapa rco 'Ap^iXo^a) 

 KrjpvXos. 



In Ar. Av. 299, usually written KeipvXos, as if from Ket'peo. Cf. infra 

 s. v. o-TTopytXos. 



The names and attributes of KrjpvXos are undoubtedly akin to those of 

 Kfipis or Ciris ; and it is interesting to note that, according to Hesy- 

 chius, the name Ktlpis applies either to a hawk or to the Halcyon. 

 I would place the legend of aXwav and KrjpvXos side by side with the 

 astronomic parable of Haliaetus and Ciris. Vide s. vv. dXideros, 



