KOIZY4>OZ KYANOI 103 



KPA'MBnTON' IKTIVOS TO >ov, Hesych, 



KPAYfO'Z. A Woodpecker. SpvoKoXdnrov ctSos, Hesych. : who has 

 also Kpavyov TTOIOS opvis. Von Edlinger cites Lith. kraki\ cf. 



KPE'=, also Kepicds (Hesych.). A very doubtful bird, usually identified, 

 by Sundevall and others, with the Corn-crake or Land-rail, 

 Rallus crex, L., Crex pratensis, auctt. = opruyop^Tpa = Kuxpap>s. 

 The name is lost in Mod. Gk. 

 Herod, ii. 76, compared in size with the Ibis. 



Ar. Av. 1138 TOVTOVS S' CTVKIOV al KpfKfs tols pvyx^iv. Schol. in Ar. 

 (Suid.) opveov dvaoitavia-TOv rols ya/jLOvcriv, 6v rrdvv TO pvyxos Kal Trpiova&es 

 f\ ov: c f- Hesych. opveov , 6 rot? yaftovo-iv olawffcrot' racro-fTai de KOL 

 errt rpo^ov [cf. iuy]. As a bird of evil ornen to the newly married, 

 cf. Euphor. 4 (quoted by Tzetzes) bv S' fjflo-e ydpov KO.KOV e^^o/uevos Kpe|, 

 and Lycophr. 513, where Helen is Svadprrayos Kpeg. A messenger of 

 Athene, Porph. De Abst. iii. 5. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b Kpe TroAejuios eXecS KOL KOTTU$< KOL ^Xcopi'coi/t . . . 

 Kal yap avrovs fiXdirrei K.a\ rot reKva avT&v. In Ael. iv. 5 (loc dub?) 

 Kpeg is hostile to aWvia'. also Phile, De An. Pr. 68 1, with epithet 



j3pa$v7rTpos. Arist. H. A. ix. 17, 6l6b 17 Se xpe| TO p.V rjdos /ua^tjuo?, 

 rqv 5e duivoiav evprjxavos Trpbs TOV ftiov, aXXco? 8e KaKOTror/uoy opvis. Arist. 



De Part. iv. 12, 695, mentioned among the long-legged birds with 

 a short hind-toe. 



Kpe' has been identified, on account of its pugnacity; with the Ruff, 

 Machetes pugnax, L.; but the Ruffs fight with one another (cf. jae^i/wj/), 

 and, moreover, all the accounts of mutual hostilities between birds are 

 unreliable, and in the main mythological. From the size, and the 

 rudimentary hind-toe, the Black-winged Stilt, Himantopus rttfipes, 

 Bechst. was suggested first by Belon : its use by Herodotus as 

 a standard of comparison with the Ibis is somewhat in favour of this 

 bird, which is common in Egypt. The identification with the Corn-crake 

 rests mainly on the assumption that the name is onomatopoeic. The 

 facts that the Scholiasts knew little or nothing about the bird, and 

 that the name is lost in Mod. Gk., suggest that the word was perhaps 

 an exotic, and that its meaning was early lost. 



KPirH'- 77 yXaOl, Hesych. 



KPl'EZ' f) xeAi8a>i/, Hesych. Doubtless corrupt : Meineke suggests 

 ? or K/Ycr */. 



KY'ANOI. Probably the Wall-Creeper, Tichodroma muraria, L. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 21, 617 /mXicrra ev Nto-ypw [eV 2Kupa>, Ael.] eVrt, 

 TTOieTrai ' eVi TCOI> irfTpwv Tas 5iarpi/3ay* TO Se fAtyedos KOTTV(J)OV p.tv eXarra-i', 



