104 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KYANOI (continued}. 



cnrlflp Se /jLfifav /ziKpo)* p,(yd\o7rovs e, Kal rrpos ras Trerpas Trpoaa 

 KVCIVOVS oXos" ro 5e pvy%os X i ^TTTOV Kal fj.aKpov } <TK\r) de 



Ael. iv. 59 opi/t? drravdpconos rbv rponov, [uawv pev ra? dariKas 8ia- 

 rpi/3as /cat ray KHT' oliciav av\i(reis, . . . ovre rjireipois <pi\r)8e'i ) ovre vfjvois 

 ayaOais' 2/cupa) e, Krzi et TIS TOICLVTTJ cVepa ayay XuTrpa Kal ayovos Kat di^^pco- 

 TTCOI/ %r)pvov(ra, a>s ra TroXXfi. 



The description in Aristotle accords very perfectly with the Wall- 

 Creeper (with which bird Gloger, Sundevall, and Heldreich identify it) 

 as regards habitat, size, feet, and bill, as does Aelian's account of its 

 solitary nature : but the bird is not KVWOVS b\os, nor is Aelian's account 

 of its habitat satisfactory. Aubert and Wimmer on the other hand, 

 following Belon, Gesner, and other older commentators, identify KVCIVOS 

 with the Blue Thrush (Mod. Gk. vrfrpoKoVo-ucpor, cf. infra, s. v. Xcuos)) 

 which agrees with the description in colour, but in little else, and is 

 a very common bird, whereas KVUVOS is mentioned as scarce and local. 



KYKNI'AI. An Eagle, white like a swan, at Sipylus near Lake 

 Tantalus, Pausan. viii. 17, 3. 



That Pausanias is here in error is rendered the more probable by 

 the existence in Med. Gk. of the words rvweas, rfrKveas, Mod. Gk. 

 rcriKvtas, meaning a White Heron or Egret. 



The White Eagle of Pythagoras (Iambi. Vit. Pythag. 132, Ael. 

 V. H. iv. 17) is supposed to be an allegory for the town of Croton, 

 on whose coins an eagle is represented ; cf. O. Keller, op. cit., pp. 238, 

 431. 



KY'KNOI. (Hesych. has also Ku'8 s .) Sk. fak-uni, a bird; Bopp, 

 ii. p. 379, cf. Fick in Herzenberger's Beitr. z. I. Gr. Spr., vii. 

 p. 94, 1883 : cf. the Gk. use of opvis for the constellation Cygnus 

 (Arat. 275, 599, 628, &c.). 



A Swan. Mod. Gk. KVKVOS, viaXfia (Heldr.), and in the Cyclades 

 KOV\OS (Erh.). The Mute Swan, Cygnus olor, Gm., breeds in 

 Greece; the Hooper or Whistling Swan, C. mustcus, Bechst., 

 is probably only a winter migrant; cf. Heldr., op. cit., p. 56. 



Epithets. dfpanroTrjs, Hes. Sc. H. 316 ; operas (= ^x e ' T '? y )j Eur. El. 

 151 ; 8o\ixavx*]v, Eur. (?) I. A. 794; SowXi^dSeipoff, II. ii. 460, xv. 692; 

 , Christod. Ecphr. 384, Xtyvdpoos, id. 414, in Gk. Anth. ; 

 -, Opp. Cyneg. ii. 547; /ieXwSos 1 , Eur. I. T. 1104; TTOTO- 

 , Id. Rh. 618; TroXio'^pco?, Id. Bacch. 1364: cf. Ar. Vesp. 1064; 

 , Pallad. 40, in Gk. Anth. iii. 123; x tovl ^XP ms ) Eur. Hel. 216. 

 A frequent emblem of whiteness : cf. Eur. Rh. 618 o-n'X/3oucn ' wore 

 KUKVOV irrepov. [Note the frequent allusions in Euripides ; 



