Il8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



NE'PTOI. A Vulture. 



Ar. Av. 303, mentioned together with yity and ifpag. Hesych. ve 'pros' 

 lepag' ol de eloos opveov (i.e. a species of vulture). This word, hitherto 



unexplained, I conjecture to be the Egyptian ^ j^ nert, Copt. 



ItOTpI, a Vulture : cf. Chaeremon, fr. 9, and Lauth, in Horap. i. 3, 

 Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad., 1876, p. 73. 



NrTTTA, Boeot. maora (Ar. Ach. 875). A Duck. Cf. Lat. anat-is, 



Lith. anh's, A. S. ened, Ger. Ente. Dim. v^-ndpiov (a term of 



endearment), Ar. PI. ion, Menand. Inc. 422 (4, 316); 



Nicostr. Antyll. 3 (3, 280). See also poaicds, yXauiaoi>, 



Description. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b included among ra 

 ra>v o~TcyavoTr68a)v' irepl norafjiovs KOI \ip.va$ eariv ; ibid. ii. 17, 509 

 e^i cvpitv KOI TrXarvv o\ov, aTrotpvdo'as ex cl - 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 52. 395 c 6 appqv ptLfav KCU TromXoorepos 1 . 



An allusion to the particoloured plumage of the Common Drake, 

 or else of some wild Duck, in Ar. Av. 1148. 



Ael. V. 33 e' o>SiVa>i> eVrt vrjKriKT), KOI fiadelv ov Setrat, K. r. X. 



Use as Pood. Herod, ii. 77 AiyuTmoi ras vfjo~o-as wp-ovs o-iTfovrcu, 

 irpoTapixevo-avres. Frequent in the Comic Poets. Its wholesomeness, 

 Plut. V. Cat. Maj. xxiii (i. 359 D). On the Roman j/qo-o-orpo^em, see 

 Varro, De R. R. iii. n, Colum. viii. 15. Mode of capture, Dion. De 

 Avib. iii. 23. 



Brought as tribute to Indian kings, Ael. xiii. 25. 



Myth and Legend. Sacred to Poseidon, Ar. Av. 566. According to 

 Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, daughters of Pierus, 

 was metamorphosed into the bird vfjo-o-a. 



Its defence against the eagle, cf. Phile, De An. Pr. xiv. 



Use the herb sideritis as a remedy, Plin. viii. 27. 



A "Weather-prophet. Ael. vii. 7 Trrepvyi^ovaai nvev/jLa drj\ovo-iv Io~xvp6v : 

 cf. Arist. fr. 241, 1522 b; Theophr. De Sign. fr. vi. 18, 28; Arat. 

 918, 970. 



NHTTOKTO'NOI, s. i/t]TTo<|>6i>os. A kind of Eagle, the Anataria of 

 Plin. x. 3. Supposed, by Sundevall, to be the Spotted Eagle, 

 Aquila naevia ; vide s. v. dXideros. Compare, however, the notes 

 on Xayw^oyos, irXayyos, &C. 



KipKos VYJTTOKTOVOS, Phile, De An. Pr. xiv. 6. vrjrrocpovos, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 32, 618 b = poppas and TrXdyyos, q. v. Cf. Ael. v. 33. 



NOYMH'NIOI. An unknown bird, opveov opoiov arraya* 6 KOI rpo'^iXoy, 



Hesych. 

 Proverb. vi>J?X0oz/ array as re KOI j>ov/i?jyioy, Suid., &C. (for other 



