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KOKKYE (continued}. 



Hoopoe, vide s. vv. eiro\|f, KouKou<f>a ; for the relations between the 

 Cuckoo and the Hoopoe, Der Kuckuk und sein Kiister, v. Grimm, 1. c. 



On the mythology of the Cuckoo, see also (int. al.} Von Mannhardt, 

 Zeitsch. f. d. Myth. iii. pp. 209-298 ; Hardy, Pop. Hist, of the Cuckoo, 

 Folk-lore Record, pt. ii ; Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 152. 



How the Atnphisbaena, alone among serpents, appears before the 

 Cuckoo is heard, i.e. in early spring, Plin. xxx. (10) 25; a magic 

 remedy for fleas, Plin. I.e.; a Cuckoo in a hare-skin, a remedy for 

 sleeplessness, Plin. xxx. (15) 48; the Cuckoo as food, Plin. x. 9 ; cf. 

 Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 564 (spurious passage). 



KO'AAPII. Vide s. v. 



KOAAYPl'fiN, s. Ko/ttAA/eoi', Hesych. An undetermined bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 6l/b ra aura eV$/ ra> Korru^w . . . dXiVKerai Se 

 Kara ^eijuwi/a /ndXtara. Is of a size with KOTTV<pos, TrapfiaXos, p.a\a.KOKpai>vs, 



Belon's unsupported hypothesis of the Shrike (Observ. ii. 98) is 

 handed down in the modern scientific name of Lanius collurio. 

 Buffon, quoted by Camus, ii. p. 238, says (Hist. Des Ois. ii. p. 70) that 

 in Mod. Gk. the Shrike is called xoXXuptW ; there is no recent 

 evidence of this. Gloger suggests with more probability, Turdus 

 j L., the Fieldfare, 



KOAOIO'I, a. The Jackdaw. Corvus monedula, L. Root very doubtful. 



Mod. Gk. KoXotoy, KaXoiciKovda. Hesych. KoXoidV [opi>eoi/] 6 oti ra^a 

 oparat tv 'AAeai>pei'a '. also, KoXoiot' (TKooTres'j p-i/epai nopwvai. 



II. xvi. 583 ; xvii. 755 fyapwv ve<pos ep^erai ^e KoXoi&v, \ ov\ov K(K\r)yovTS. 

 In regard to the Jackdaw's cry, cf. Pind. N. 3, 143 (78) KoXoiol xpayerat : 

 Antip. Sid. 47 KoAoicov Kpoo-y/uds : J. Poll. vi. 13 KO\OIOVS K\a>fiv : hence 

 the verb KoAoiaa), Poll. v. 89. 



Frequent in Aristophanes ; Av. passim, Ach. 875, Vesp. 129, Eq. 

 1020, &c. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b 6i5j/ rpia* KopaKias, XUKOS, j3a>fj,oXox S 5 q. v. 

 Ib. ii. 17? 5^9 T ^ Trpo? Trjv KoiXiav relvov f\(i evpv KOL TrXaru. Its claws 

 are weaker than those of 8pvoKo\dnrr]s ) ib. ix. 9, 614 (here Schneider, 

 followed by Sundevall, would read for KoXoieov, Ko\iS>v s. KeXeoiv). De 

 Gen. iii. 6, 756 b f) Tols pvy^ari els a\\rj\a Koivavia d>j\ov eVi ratv ndao'evo- 



How the Jackdaw, a victim to sociality, is caught with a dish of oil, 

 into which, looking at his own reflection, he falls ; Ael. iv. 30, 

 Athen. ix. 393 b, Dion. De Avib. iii. 19. Caught also with springes 

 baited with an olive, Dion. ib. iii. 18. 



A weather-prophet, of KoXotot e* T&V vr\<j&v Trero/ueixn rols yeapyois 



