HO A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KYvpEAOI (continued}. 



hypothesis of the Sand-Martin, advocated by Sundevall, has strong 

 claims. 



Kfi'KAAOZ* KwKoXov' cldos aXeKrpvovos, Hesych. Cf. S. V. XotcaXos. 

 KQNflnOGH'PAI- opvis 6 navanas fypcvuv, Hesych. 



KQTIAA'I. The Swallow. A Boeotian word. Anacr. 99 ; Strattis, 

 &oiv. 3; cf. Simonid. 243. 



AAfOGH'PAI' Hesych., aerou flSos. = XayaxjxJ^os = jieXaj/deros (q. V.). 

 An epithet of the Eagle. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 6i8b. The Eagle in combat with the hare is 

 frequent on gems, and on coins of Agrigentum, Messana, Elis, &c. : cf. 

 Imhoof-Blum. and Keller, passim ; Keller, Th. d. cl. Alterth., p. 449. 

 The wide occurrence of this subject (cf. Layard, Nineveh, ii. pi. 62) 

 indicates a lost mythological significance, in which one is tempted 

 to recognize a Solar or Stellar symbol ; vide s. vv. deros, Kopa. 



AAfQAl'AZ. A synonym of cSros, Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 390. 

 AATOI'NHI- opvis TTOIOS, Hesych. 



AAm'nOYI. A Ptarmigan. 



Plin. x. (48) 68 praecipuo sapore lagopus : ped.es leporino villo nomen 

 ei hoc dedere, cetero candidae, columbarum magnitudine, &c. The 

 lagois, s. logois of Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 22, is possibly akin. In Mart. vii. 87, 

 an old reading was Si meus aurita gaudet lagopode Flaccus, altered by 

 Scaliger to glaucopide. 



AAffl'l. A bird-name, mentioned with the Swallow, in Artemid. 

 Oneirocr. iv. 56. The name suggests a reference to daavKovs 

 xeXiSoVeioy, Diph. s. Calliad. ap. Athen. ix. 401 a. According to 

 Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xx a certain Oreius was metamor- 

 phosed into the bird Xayobs, opvis eV ovdevl <paiv6/j,evo$ aya$a>. 



AAEAO'I (MSS. also XatSos, Xt/3vo's). A bird, in all probability identical 

 with Xcuos, q. v. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 6lO Xae&k KOI Ke\ebs (pi\oi. 6 8e \afobs rrerpas KOI 

 oprj [oiK6t], *cai ^tXo^capet ov av OIKT/. 



We may connect the reputed friendship of KeXeo? and \ae86s with 

 the association of /ceXeds and Xcuos together, in the obscure story of the 

 metamorphosis of those impious persons who entered the forbidden 

 cave in Crete where Jupiter was born ; Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xix. 



AAI"O'I. Probably the Blue Thrush, Petrocichla cyanus, L. The 

 Stone-thrush, P. saxatilis, L., is less common in Greece, and 



