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KITKAOI (continued}. 



thirdly because of its asserted tameness in captivity. The statement 

 in Aelian, about the nest (also ap. Phile, 492), may perhaps be 

 explained by the fact that, according to Kriiper, the Wagtails in Greece 

 all leave the plains in summer to breed, resorting to the hills, or in the 

 case of M. melanocephala to the salt-marshes and lagoons. At the 

 same time it is evident that allusions to Kiy/cXoy, &c., are much influ- 

 enced by notions and superstitions connected with the bird iuy. 



KirKPA'MAI- Spveov, Hesych. Cf. Ku'xpajJios. 



Kl'KIPPOI, s. KIKKOS, and KIKKTJ. Cock and Hen, Hesych. Cf. Mod. 



Gk. KOKKopas, 



KIKKA'BH. Also Kucu|3os, KiKujStjl's, KIKUJAOS, KITUJJUS, Hesych. KIKUJJLIS. 



Call. fr. 318. Perhaps connected also with KvpivSis, s. 

 An Owl. Lat. cicuma (Festus). 



Schol. ad Ar. Av. 262 ; sub voce KiKKaftav. Tas yXavKas ourw 

 \eyovcriv' oBtv KOI KiKKafBas extras Xeyovoui/, 01 5e Ki/cu/it'Sa?, oas 

 "/capr' dyadfj KIKU/ZIJ," KOI "OfjLrjpos Se u ^aXfaSa KiK\r)orK.ov<ri Beoi" K.r.X. 



Cf. KovKovftayia, and KOVKKOS, the modern Athenian popular names for 

 y\ai>. Vide s.v. KOKKopdpT]. 



KIKYMHTZ" yXav^, Hesych. Also ib. KiTUjJtii'a' yXaC/ca ; qy. KiKUfxiSa. 



Cf. KIKKCI|3TJ. 



KIAI'AI' <rrpov66s aparjv, Hesych. 



Kl'AAOYPOI. A Wagtail. With KiXX-ovpoy, cf. L. mota-cilla, and 

 perhaps Kiy-K\-os. On the root, cf. Benfey's Zeitschr. viii. 1892. 

 Fick, i. 527. Vide S. vv. iciyicXos, o-eiaoiruyts, aeiaoupa. 



KINAI'AION. A name for iuy, Hesych., Phot. Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 

 23, Schol. in Theocr. ii. 17. 



KINAA^OI'- fyvca, Hesych. 



KINNA'MnMON ''OPNEON. Also ifiwa/noXdyor, Plin. X. (33) 50; cf. 

 Solin. (33) 46. The fabled Cinnamon Bird. 

 Herod, iii. 1 1 1 ; how the Arab merchants left pieces of flesh which 

 might break down by their weight the nests to which the birds carried 

 them, and in which the cinnamon was found. In Arist. H. A. ix. 13, 

 616, a variation of the same story, the nests being brought down with 

 weighted arrows. Cf. Ael. ii. 34, xvii. 21 ; Antig. H. Mirab. c. 49 ; 

 Phile De Pr. An. 28 (27) ; Plin. xii. (19) 42 ; Sindbad the Sailor, &c. 

 Sometimes confused with the Phoenix; cf. Claud. Epist. ii. 15 Venit 

 et extremo Phoenix longaevus ab Euro, Apportans unco cinnama 

 rara pede ; Ovid, Met. xv. 399 ; Stat. Silv. ii. 6. 87. 



