88 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOKKYE (continued}. 



fVTLKreiv. See also Arist. De Gen. iii. I, 750, Ael. iii. 30, Theophr. Caus. 

 PI. ii. 18, 9, Dion. De Avib. i. 13, Plin. x. (9) 26, Phile, De An. Pr. 

 xxiv. 



A species that builds its own nest : Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 564 veorrevei 

 yevns TI aiiT&v Troppco Km fv aTroro/iois Trerpcus. [Ib. vi. I, 559> KOKKV 

 probably for Korrvcpos]. 



The Cuckoo is said by Kriiper (p. 184) to lay in Greece chiefly in 

 the nest of Sylvia orphea, and also of the species of Saxicola. Coccystes 

 glandarius, the Great Spotted Cuckoo, which also occurs in Greece, 

 (Mod. Gk. Kpavos), lays in the nests of the Jackdaw, Magpie and Crow. 

 The repeated statement that KOKKV^ lays in the nest of <pdrra or (pd^ is 

 inexplicable, unless such a statement be of foreign origin and refer 

 originally to some Oriental species ; a little light is perhaps thrown 

 upon the point by the circumstance that in certain Chinese legends 

 the Dove and the Cuckoo are confounded together: vide infra s. v. 

 ircpiorepd. This discrepancy deprives of all value the attempted 

 identifications of t>7roXaiV, wihch are based on its being some bird in 

 whose nest the Common Cuckoo habitually lays its egg ; see also 

 S. v. irdmros. 



Migration. Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 563 b (paiWrai eV 6\iyov \povov TOV 

 OepovS) TOV Se ^fi/zcai/a d<pai>terai. Ib. IX. 49 B, 633 /xera/3dXXei TO XP&>M a 

 Kal rfj fytovfj [ov] o-a(pr]vi(i, orav pe\\rj d(pavifcrdai' d(pai/ifrai 8' VTTO Kvva, 

 (pavepbs de yiverat OTTO TOV eapos ap^a^-evos l*-*XP L Kvvos fViToX^s 1 . Cf. Ael. 

 iii. 30 oparai 6 KOKKV^ rjpos vnap^of^fvov els avaToXas Seipi'ou : Dion. De 

 Avib. i. 13 irp&TOS TU>V Xonr&v TTTrjv&v fjfjuv TO cap dyycXXcoi/. 



Metamorphosis with the Hawk, Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 563 b, ix. 49 B, 633. 

 Cf. Plut. Arat. xxx (i. 1041 C) KOI Kadd-rrep rep Koiwvyl (fyrjviv AUTOOTTOJ 



TOVS XfTTTOVS OpVlOdS, OTl <pl>yOlV dVTOV, LnLV tKflVOVg O)? eCTTdl 



e teVa| (Acs. Fab. 198, ed. Halm). Cf. also Tzetz. ad Lye. 395. 

 See also supra, s. vv. TTOI|/, Kipicos. 



Other Myths and Legends. How Jupiter, in the shape of a Cuckoo, 

 sought Hera on Mount Thornax ; and how for this reason the cuckoo 

 figures on Hera's sceptre, Pausan. ii. 17, 4: cf. Schol. ad Theocr. 

 xv. 64 ; hence the mountain was called 6'poy KoKKvyiov, Pausan. ii. 36, i ; 

 cf. Creuzer, Symb. iii. 248; cf. also the Teutonic Gauchsberg, Grimm,. 

 D. Myth. p. 646, &c. 



From its propinquity to Sparta, and from the circumstance of the 

 Cuckoo having come in a cloud, Creuzer (1. c.) conjectures an allusion 

 to the same story in Ar. Av. 814; cf. also the weather prophecy in 

 Hesiod, 1. c. 



How the Cuckoo was king over Egypt and Phoenicia, Ar. Av. 504. 

 In these latter statements we have evidence of a confusion with the 



