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Arist. H. A. vi. 2, 559 Kareon-y/zeVa ra am T&V /LteXeaypt^cov : cf. Aristoph. 

 H. A. Epit. i. 28 wa dcrrepeoTa. 



See also the description given by Columella, viii. 8, 2 Africana est 

 quam plerique Numidicam dicunt, meleagridi similis, nisi quod rutilam 

 galeam (paleam, emend. Newton) et cristam capite gerit, quae utraque 

 sunt in meleagride coerulea. This passage from Columella is very 

 interesting as showing that the Greek pc\taypig and the Roman Gallina 

 africana or numidica were different from one another, the latter having 

 a red wattle, the former a blue. This would look as though the /ueXea- 

 ypis had sprung from what is now called Numida ptilorhyncha, an 

 Abyssinian species, and had been brought to Athens by way of Egypt ; 

 while the Afra avis originated in the Numida meleagris of W. Africa. 

 See Newton, Diet, of Birds, p. 399, footnote. 



The fj.\eaypides mentioned, however, by Scylax, Periplus, were seen 

 beyond the Pillars of Hercules, in N. W. Africa, as were those men- 

 tioned by Mnaseas ; and these were doubtless, therefore, of the red- 

 wattled species. Strabo and Diodorus report the birds as inhabiting 

 an island in the Red Sea ; Sophocles (1. c.), speaks of them poetically 

 as Indian. 



Mentioned as sacred birds, Clyt. Miles. I.e. Trepi 8e TO Ifpov TTJS 

 Hapdevov ev Aepo> ci<riv ot KaXovpevoi opvides p.e\faypides. Also in 



Aetolia, Menodot. ap. Athen. xiv. 655 a. 



Ael. iv. 42 : the metamorphosis of the sisters of Meleager ; 00-01 

 8e apa aldovvrai TO flelov KCU p,a\\ov el rr]v "Aprejutv, OVK civ rroT Toivde 

 TWV opvldwv TTi Tpo<pr)V TTpoo'd'^aiVTOj KOI rJTts T) aiTLO. 'icrao~i T 01 rrjv vfjcrov 

 olKOvvTCs TTjv Aepov KOI Veo~Ti padelv aXXaxodev. Ib. v. 27 TOS 8 eV Aepo) 

 fi\caypidas OTTO /M?ySej/6s ddiKela-Qai TWV yaptywvvxw opvetov \eyet "la-Tpos. 



Sacrificed at the temple of Isis in Tithorea (Phocis), Pausan. x. 31 

 (x. 32, 9, ed. Teubn.). 



Were kept also in the Acropolis : /ieXeaypi'Scs* 6'pm? ai eW/uoiTo eV 

 Til a/cpO7rd\et, Hesych. opi/ca arrep cveftovTO ev Tfj a.K.pon6\i' Xeyovo"* de 

 01 /xeV d8e\(pas TOV Me\eaypov /ueTa/3aXeii/ els TUS /ieXeaypi'Sa? opi'idas, ol 

 8e TO.S avvTjdtis 'lo/caXXi'8o? TTJS cv Aepvy Trapdevov, r}v TifiSto'i daip.ovid)s t 

 Suid., Phot. 



On the story of the metamorphosis, cf. Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. 

 c. I, Hygin. Fab. 174, Ovid, Met. viii. 534, Mart. iii. 58, 15, Lactant. 

 viii. 4. 



How the Meleagrides fought around the tomb of Meleager (cf. s. v. 

 ptyvw) PHn. x. (26) 38, &c. 



For other references, see Antig. Caryst. xi ; Juv. xi. 142 ; Hor. Epod. 

 ii. 53 Afrae aves; Mart. iii. 58, 15 Numidicae guttatae ; xiii. 45 Libycae 

 volucres ; xiii. 75 ; Stat. Silv. i. 6, 78, ii. 4, 28 ; Suet. Calig. 22 (vide s. v. 

 Terpawi'); Petron. 93 ; Varro, De R. R. iii. 9, 18, c. 



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