112 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AA'POI, |3. A kind of tame singing bird, Anth. Pal. vii. 199. 

 AEfOI, vide s.v. iXeios. 



AEYKEPflAIO'l (also XevKopd>8ioy). The Spoonbill, Platalea leucorodius, 

 L. Mod. Gk. KovXtdpi (=Fr. cueiller). 

 Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b ro pfyeQ f >s epa&iov eXdrratv, KOI e^ei TO 



The description of the bill easily identifies the bird in this passage 

 (Belon, Sundevall, &c.), but the name would probably be likewise 

 applied to the other White Herons or Egrets. 



AIBYO'I. (MSS. have Xefr'os, K&IOS, ic^Sios, cf. Schn. in Arist. iv. p. 7). 

 An unknown bird: possibly to be compared with AtjSuxos opvis, 

 Ar. Av. 65. 

 Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 K\COS KOI \iftvbs TroXcfuot : cf. s. v. XcteBog. 



AO'KAAOZ. An unknown bird. 



Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509, mentioned with ao-KaXacpos as a bird having 

 colic coeca. Omitted in Cod. Venetus and others. Gesner supposes 

 the word to be Italian (?=aluco, an Owl), and to have come in as 

 a marginal rendering of do-Ka\a<pos. Scaliger reads KwicaXos. 



AY'KOI. A sort of Jackdaw (Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 6iob); probably 

 a nickname of the common Jackdaw, cf. pwjjioXoxos. (Schn. and 

 Pice, read XUKIOS, which form occurs in Hesych. : \VKIOS, KO\OIOV 

 See also s. v. 



MAKEII'KPANOI. A name for the Hoopoe. 



Hesych. paKfo-iKpavos. error//-' 8ia TO 



\6(poV) Ka\ KOpvOaioXov avrov Xeyovai. 7ro\v(avvfj.ov de Xeyerai TO 

 (rivTtjv re yap avrbv KOI dXfKTpvova [aypiov, inser. Heinsius] KUI ye 

 \yovari. 



MAAAKOKPANEY'I. An unknown bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 22, 617 b ael eVi ro ai/ro KaBi^dvei, KOI dXia-Kerai evravQa. 

 TO 8e eiSo? Kf<pa\r) p,ev p.eyd\rj ^ovdpoTviros^ TO de fjteyedos eXarrcov Kt^Xi^s 

 /jLiKp<p. o~TOp.a 6' 6vpa)o"TOv, [UKpov, o~Tpoyyv\ov' TO 5e xp>[Jia o~Tro8oei8r]S 

 0X09. evTTovs de KOI KaKOTrrepos. dXiovcerai 8e p.d\i(TTa yXavKi [? aucupium 

 per noctuamj. 



Identified by Sundevall with the Lesser Grey Shrike, Lanius minor, 

 L., in Mod. Gk. Kf(pn\ds and deTo^d^os (Heldr.). Lindermayer (op. c. 

 p. 114) states that this bird is extremely common in Greece, and sings 

 all day long ' auf der aussersten Spitze eines Baumes oder Strauches 

 sitzend.' This identification is more plausible than the many others that 

 have been suggested, such as the Jay, the Bullfinch, and even the Snipe 



