KIPKOI KIXAH 85 



KIIIA (continued}. 



de TTJV veoTTtav eVi rwv 8fv8pa>v K rpi\S)V Kal epiow : makes a Store of 

 acorns, orav 8' vrro\t7ra)(nv at fiaXavoi, dnoKpimTovora ra^teverat. Ib. ix. 2O, 

 617 a, is the size of to/3opo?, the Missel-Thrush. 



Its garrulity: Alexid. Thras. i (3, 420 Mein.) XaXi<rrepai/ ov /array, 

 oiV drjdov 1 ovTf rpvy6va\ Lye. 1319 rfjv \d\r)6pov Kicra-av '. and imitative 

 faculty, Ael. vi. 19, Plut. De Sol. Anim. p. 973 C, Dion. De Avib. i. 18, 

 Plin. x. 42 (59), Porph. De Abst. iii. 4; hence Kio-o-a/3io>, Poll. v. 90. How 

 it is caught with a springe and bait of olive, Dion. De Avib. iii. 1 8. 

 Mentioned also in frr. Antiph. 3. 145, Anaxand. 3. 185, Mnesim. 3. 

 570 (Meineke). According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. 9, one of the 

 Emathides, daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird /a'o-0-a ; 

 cf. Ovid, Met. v. 294, 663 ; Mart. Ep. xiv. 76 ; Pers. Prol. ; Plin. x. 33. 



Sundevall supposes the Magpie (which is very much rarer in Greece 

 than the Jay) to have been meant, but the description tallies much 

 better with the Jay, which still retains the name. The Magpie is now 

 called KctpctKaga (Heldr.). In Italian, gazza, che'ca, cecca, pica, &c., 

 apply both to the Magpie and to the Jay, as very possibly Kicraa also 

 did in Greek. Pliny (x. 29) gives an accurate account of the Magpie, 

 describing it as a variety of pica of recent advent to the neighbourhood 

 of Rome. 



KI'IIIPII, Suid., Kiaipias, Hesych. An unknown bird. 

 KI'XAH. Dor. Kixfa (Ar. Nub. 339, Epicharm. in Athen. ii. 64 f (68)). 

 A Thrush : the generic term including IXids s. IXXds, t|op6pos, 



rpixas, q. v. The root appears in Russ. kwickzol, a thrush, 



with which ouzel is perhaps cognate. Mod. Gk. r^Xa. Cf. 



also "x^a, 'ioxXa. 



Mentioned in Od. xxii. 468 Kt^Xai rawo-inrfpoi. Homer is said to 

 have received a present of xt^Xat for reciting a certain poem, hence 

 called 'Efl-tJuxXidre: Menaech. ap. Athen. ii. 65 b. 



Description. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, ix. 22, 6l7b, is as large 

 as Trvyapyos, and a little larger than fj-aXaKOKpavevs. Ib. ix. 49 B. 632 b 

 /^6Ta/3dXXei 8e Kat rj KI'^XTJ ro xpaijua* TOV pev yap ^Lp.wvos ^apa, rov Se 

 Oepovs TroiKiXa TO. nepl TOV av^eVa to-^ei' TYJV /xei/roi (pwrjv ovftev /Ltera- 

 /3aXX. Cf. Ael. xii. 28. This would suggest a confusion of species : 

 the more variegated birds being Fieldfares and Redwings ; the latter 

 are said to occur in large flocks in Spring (v. d. Miihle), though all 

 alike have departed by Summer. Its song alluded to, Ar. Ach. 1116 



noTfpov aKpides rjSi6v ecrnv, r) Kt'^Xai ; Ar. Pax 531, &C. 



Nesting. Builds in a spray of myrtle, 6a\\ov (jivppivrjs, or places one 

 in the nest for a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile, De An. 723, Geopon. xv. I, 19, 

 Anatol. p. 298 : cf. Fab. Aes. 194. A different account, Arist. H. A. 

 vi. I, 559 a * 8e Kt'^Xai veomav p.ev noLovvrai, ucrirep al ^eXi8dj/ey IK. rryXov 



