IO8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KYKNOI (continuect). 



it stood in mid-heaven at the rising of the Pleiad ; at its own rising, 

 the Virgin (Leda) was in mid-heaven, and the twins Castor and Pollux 

 were just setting in the west. The stories of Cycnus, son of Mars 

 (Hesiod, Anton. Lib. 12, Philochor. ap. Athen., Ovid, Met., &c.), of 

 Cycnus, King of Liguria (Hygin. Fab. 144), Cycnus, brother of Phaethon 

 (Lucian, De Electro, Virg. Aen. x. 189), and others, which are also 

 similarly connected with astronomical myths, lie outside the scope of 

 this book. Cf. (int. al.), Dupuis, Orig. de tous les cultes, iii. p. 813, vii. 

 P- 367. 



KY'MBH. A very doubtful bird. nrfpolSanoves Kvupai, Ernped. 188. 

 Supposed by L. and S. to be a Tumbler-pigeon ; but cf. Ko'p.{3<x, 



SUpra. Hesych. has Kv^af opviQes I also Kv/x/3[ar]eurui'- opviQevrai 



KY'MINAIIrrx^fc^ (?) Y |, q. v. Kvfrvdts in some MSS., both of 

 Horn, and Arist., cf. J. G. Schneider in Arist., vol. iv. p. 92. 



Hesych. has Kvftrjvats' y\av[ats], query Kvprjvftisl also KvddvaV 



TTJV y\avKa, query Kvfifjva. See also s. v. KIKKU^. An unknown 

 or fabulous bird ; perhaps an Owl. 



II. xiv. 290 opvidi Xiyvpfj eva\iyKios, rjv r ev opewiv | ^aX/aSa KIK\T)<TKOVO-I 

 $eoi, avdpes de KVfjLivdiv. 



Ar. Av. I l8l Xpei de nets TIS 6vv\as ^yKuXeo/neVo?, | Kepxvrjs, Tpiopxys, yv\lf, 

 Kvpivdis, aleTos. Mentioned likewise among the rapacious birds, Ael. 

 xii. 4. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 12, 615 b 6\tyaKis (J.ev (paiWrat, oiKel yap op?/, ecrri de 

 /leXny, Kal fj.ey@os 5(rov iepa 6 (f)ao~cro(^6vos KaXovfievos, Kai rrjv Ideav pctKpbs 

 Kal Xenros. K.vp.iv^iv de Ka\oi(Tiv "laves CIVTTJV '. the passage is very cor- 

 rupt, and according to some texts (followed apparently by Pliny, x. 8, 

 and by Eustath. in Horn.), the next clause concerning vppis or ivrvy^ 

 applies to the same bird, ^ 6' v/3piV, (poor! 8c rives elvai TOV avrbv TOVTOV 

 opvida T<a TTTvyyi, OVTOS fj/J-epas ^ev ov (paiverai 8ia TO pr) /SXeVfii/ ou, ras 5e 

 vi/KTas Orjpevei coanep ol aeroi [oi oirot, cj. Sundevall], Kal fia^orrat 8e irpbs 

 rbv deTov ovra) o-(po5pa WOT' ap.0a> XafjLJBdveardai noXXaKis a)VT(is VTTO rS)V 

 vop,c>)V. TiKTei pv ovv 8vo coa, veoTTevei de Kal OVTOS ev Tierpais Kai <r7rrj\aiois. 



Conjectured by Sundevall to be the Black or Glossy Ibis, from the 

 suggestion of metallic colouring in xaX/a'y, and from Mod. Gk. xXfcoKora, 

 Erh. ; but this is certainly not a bird of the mountains, and the 

 supposed derivation from ^aXxo's is imaginary. By Aub. and Wimmer, 

 and others, ascribed to the Capercailzie, Tetrao urogallus, L. 

 Usually taken to be a large Owl (cf. Suidas, xaX*iV, eI8os opveov, 17 

 yXai|, cf. Schol. Ar. Av. 262), as by Belon, Gaza, and other older 

 naturalists. Cuvier (Grandsaigne's Pliny, I. v. 11, pp. 374, 375) identi- 

 fies it with the Hawk Owl, Strix uralensis, Pall., and Netolicka agrees. 



