90 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOAOIOI (continued}. 



(rrj(j.flov avxnov /cat acpopt'us etVtV, Arist. fr. 240, 1522. A sign of rain, 

 dye\r)8a /cat IpfjKfO'cnv opolov \ <p$eydp.epot, Arat. Ph. 965 5 cf. ib. 

 Kopat; Se av Kopavrj /cat KoXoibs deiXrjs ox/nay ft (pOeyyoLVTO ^ftjwcoi'os 

 ai TWO. eViS^/Miay 8i8d<TKOV(Ti' /coXotoi de iepaK.iovTS } /cat 7reTop.tvoi TTJ} 

 fj.ev aVwTepo) nrj de Kara>repa>, Kpvfj.ov /cat verov drjXovai, Arist. ap. Ael. vii. 7 j 

 cf. Theophr. De Sign. vi. I ; Arat. 1023, 1026 ; Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 34 

 pluviae graculus auctor aquae ; Lucret. v. 1082. 



In augury, frequent. Ar. Av. 50 x<u KO\OIOS ovroo-l ava> K^vfv : cf. 

 W. H. Thompson's note on Plat. Phaed. 249 D. 



How the Jackdaws, destroying the grasshoppers' eggs, are cherished 

 by the Thessalians, Illyrians, and Lemnians, Ael. iii. 12, Plin. xi. 29. 

 How the Veneti bribe the Jackdaws to spare their crops, and how 

 the Daws respect the compact, Ael. xvii. 16, Antig. Hist. Mir. 173 (189), 

 Arist. De Mirab. ii. 9, 841 b. On the construction of scare-crows, cf. 

 Geopon. xiv. 25. 



Story of a Jackdaw enamoured of a certain youth, Ael. i. 6, xii. 37. 

 The Jackdaw in medicine, Plin. xxix. (6) 36, xxx. (n) 30, &c. Uses 

 laurel as a remedy, Plin. viii. 27. 



Fables. The Daws and the Husbandman, Babr. xxxiii. The Daw 

 in borrowed plumes, ib. Ixxii : also KO\OIOS KOI y\avg, in Fab. Aes. ed. 

 Halm, 200 ; Phaedr. i. 3 ; cf. Luc. Apol. 4 KoXotos aXXorpiois vrrepot? 

 cryaXWai : Hor. Ep. 1.3. 19, 2o moveat cornicula risum, Furtivis nudata 

 coloribus. See also Aes. Fab. 201, 202, 398. 



Proverb. KO\OIOS irapa KO\OIOV idvei, Arist. Rhet. i. II, 1371 b ; cf. 

 Nic. Eth. viii. 2, 1155, &c. KaK&v navdpiore Ko\oiS>v, Lucian, Fugit. 30 

 (3, 382). Of chatterers, TroXXot yap /utWi o-$e KaraKpa>^ov<n /coXotot, Ar. 

 Eq. 1020. 



KOAOIO'I, p. The Little Cormorant. Phalacrocorax pjygmaeus, 

 Bonap.; vide s. v. KaTappdic-nis. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b eon 8e /cat aXXo yevos /coXotcov irepl rf)V AvSiav 

 Kal tyvy&nr, 6 areyavoTrovv eariv. Is friendly with Xapos (6 /caX. /coXotos), 

 Ael. v. 48. 



Sundevall ingeniously suggests the above interpretation, the large or 

 Common Cormorant, ' corvo marine,' being known as /cdpa (Arist. 

 H. A. viii. 3, 593 b). Ar. Ach. 875 (883) vdWus, /coXotous, drrayas, (paXa- 

 , &c., is quoted by Athen. ix. 395 E as a list of water-birds. Cf. s. v. 



r| GaXdaaios. 

 KOAO|'<I>PYE' Tavaypalos aXe/crp^toi/, Hesych. 



KOAOKTPYfli'N. In Hesych., supposed to be based on an ancient 



error in MS. Ravenn. of Ar. Ran. 935, for Kd\cKTpv6va. 

 KOAYMBI'I, s. KoXvrfos (Ar. Ach.), KoXu/ujSas (Athen. 395 e, Anton. Lib.). 

 A water-bird ; especially a Grebe. 



