120 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



NYKTIKOPAS (continued}. 



meines Bedenckens weder ein Caprimulgus noch Nycticorax ist.' 

 And the confusion thus introduced seems to have been aided by Gaza 

 having translated wKTiKopag by cicuma (Gr. KIKUJUS, q.v.), afterwards 

 misspelt cicunia, ciconia (vide Belon, ii. c. 36, Camus, ii. p. 250). 



Nevertheless, although the above-cited passages all appear to apply 

 to an Owl, yet Ardea purpurea, nycticorax, and other Herons are said 

 to be now called wKTiKopag (Erh., Heldr.) ; further, it has been shown 

 above that the attributes of epo>8ios are in part nocturnal. Lastly, it 

 must be noted that there are evidences of Egyptian influence in the 

 stories both of e'pwSior and vvKTiKopag ; vide s. v. dyoiraia. 



Ol'NA'NOH. An unknown bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 633 (loc. dub.} a(^avl^rai Se KCU TJV KaXoDa-t rives 

 olvdvdrjv av'io~\ovTO$ TOV o~(ipiov } dvopcvov 8e (paivcrai' (frevyei yap ore p.ev 

 TO. "^vxn, ore de rrjv aXeai/. Cf. Plin. x. (29) 45 ; perhaps identical with 

 parra, ib. xviii. 69, or mtiparra, ib. x. (33) 50. Vide infra, s. v. oiras. 



Belon (Nat. des Oiseaux, vii. 12) first applied the name to the 

 Wheatear, which (Saxicola oenanthe, L.) still retains it. 



OI'NA'Z. A kind of Pigeon : probably the wild Hock-Pigeon, 

 Columba tim'a, L. Also oli/ias, Poll. vi. 22 olvtas 8e ical olvds, 



77 aypi'a 7rept(TTfpa. 



Arist. H. A. V. 13, 544 ^ opvis TrepicrrepoeiS)]?, fitKpco jj.ei(cv rrjs TrepioTepaff. 

 Ib. viii. 3, 593 Aon-tai/ de fyaftos. Ib. vi. i, 558 b 8irom, i.e. lays two 

 eggs ; cf. De Gen. iv. 77, iii. 9, Plin. x. 79 (58). Arist. H. A. viii. 3. 593 roG 

 Kol (fxiivcrai prXiora Kal aXtWercu* rj 8' SXaxris avrijs yiverat 

 a KajTTovcrrjs TO vScop' atyiKvovvrai 8 els TOVS TOTTOVS TOVTOVS e 



Arist. ap. Athen. ix. 394 a /uei'o>i/ eVrt TJJS TrfpiorTfpa?, 

 olvanov. (paiverat (frdivonapfo (JLOVCO. Athen. ib. 394 e Xeyfrai fi* on 

 f) olvas fav (payovva TO TTJS lias cr7rep/za eVt TIVOS aQodevfrrj devdpov, Idiav 

 llav (pveo-dai : cf. Plin. xvi. (44) 93, s. v. palumbes. Ael. iv. 58 TTJV otVaSa 

 opveov floevai XPV ovcrav, ov p,f]V &s Tives o/i7reXoy. \eyei 8e 'Apto-roreX^y 

 /net^oj/ jj,fv avTO elvai (fraTTtjs, Trepiarepaff ye ^v TJTTOV. Mentioned also, 

 Lyc. 358. 



oiyaSoO^pas, in Sparta, a dove-catcher, Ael. 1. c. 



The passage in Aelian, and the discrepancy between the accounts of 

 the bird's size, indicate that olvds was a little-known word. The later 

 Greeks and early commentators derived it from olvos, with reference to 

 the colour of the bird (Athen. I.e., Eustath. ad Odyss. p. 475, ed. Basil.) 

 or to its appearance in the vintage-season (TOV (pdivorrdapov) ; hence 

 Gaza translates it Vinago ; and most moderns have identified it with 

 the Stock-dove, C. oenas, L., whose breast is purple-red. But the 

 word is more probably identical with the Hebrew T\^ , Jonah, as has 

 been suggested by Casaubon in Athen. p. 617, and Bochart, Hieroz. ii. 



