136 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



HEAEKAN (continued}. 



Epiphan. (ad Physiol. c. xx) Hexaem. c. viii e<rri yap fj jreXeKav <pi\6- 

 reKvov opveov Trapa Tcavra ra opvea' 17 8e 6fj\eia Kade^trai ev rfj veoTTia 

 <pv\do~o~ov(ra ra re/ci/a, Kal irepiOahnfi avra d(T7rabp.eV>7, KCU KO\a(piovo'a ev 

 <pi\rjfj.aTi OTTUS rals TrXeupaiS 1 Karepyaerat, Kal reXevraxrt" Kal /J.e6' fjp-epas 

 Tpeis Trapayfvofjifvov roC appevos TreXeKavos^Kal fvpiaKOvros avra TeBvrjKOTa 

 oXocpvpeTat rrjv Kapdiav XiW' TreTrXq-ypeVoy Se rou novov KoXcxplfci rrjv ISiav 

 nXevpdv, Kal arras avrrj f/tTroiet, KOI Karappfl aijpia eTTicrra^coj/ eVt ras ir\rjyas 

 TO>V T^6vr]K.oT(Av veo(T(r(ov, Kal ovTcos (/ooTToioCi/roi : cf. also Ps.-Hieron. ad 

 Praes. de Cer. Pasch. v. p. 149 (ed. 1693), Isid. Orig. xii. c. 7, Glycas, 

 Annal. i. p. 44, S. August, in Ps. cii, &c., &c. A confusion with 

 certain Woodpecker-myths (cf. TTcXeicas) may be one of the various 

 sources of these corrupt but popular stories. 



HEAEKA"!, s. ireXeKdt^ A Woodpecker. Mod. Gk. TreXe/uW, Sei/fy>o- 

 (payos, TaiK\iddpa. Vide S. W. SpuoKoXdiTTTj?, KcXeos, orreXcKTOS. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 882, 1155 et seq. Cf. s. v. 7reXe<ai/, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. IO, 614 b oi fie Trc\Kavs ol ev rols Troranols, as indicating that the 

 same word applied to the two different birds. Cf. Suid. (verb. q. del. 

 Gaisford), ecrrt de eidos opj/eou, rpVTrovv ra devfipa, dfi ou Kal devdpOKo- 

 Xa?rr/7? /caXeirai : also Hesych., s. v. TreXeKai'. 



In the version of the Itylus-myth, given by Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 

 c. xi, Polytechnus, the husband of Ae'don, is metamorphosed into the 

 bird TreXeKoV, the brother of Ae'don being transmuted at the same time 

 into eVo^. With the stories of the Woodpecker breaking open con- 

 fined places, referred to above, s. vv. 8puoKoXdTrris and eiroxj/, under 

 the heading of the * Samir-legend,' cf. the myth of Aiovvcros neXeKvs 

 (R. Brown, Dionysiac Myth, i. p. 332, ii. p. 8l). 



Hostile to op, Ael. vi. 45, Phile, De An. 684 : this statement is 

 generally referred to the Pelican, but it more probably refers to the 

 Woodpecker, that bird and the Quail being both alike associated with 

 solar myths. 



nEAEKfNOI. 



In Dion. De Avib. ii. 6, and probably therefore also in Ar. Av. 882, 

 a Pelican. 



FIEAHA'P* Trepia-Tfpas Kal nepai^s TO rjniav' AaKuves. Hesych. (verb. dub. : 

 cf. Schmidt in Hesych.). 



HE'AAOZ. The Heron. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b 6 TTC\\OS ^aXerrcos evvafcrai Kal o^ewfi* /cpa^Vt re 

 yop Kal alfjLa, cbs (pac-iv, d(pirjcriv CK ro>z/ o<pda\p.S>v o^eucov, Kal TiKret 0auX<o? 

 Kal 68vvr)p>s. TroXeuel de rot? /SXaTrrouati/, derw dp7ra -yap avroV Kal 

 aXcoTTeia (pdeipei yap avrbv TTJS VVKTOS *cai Kopvda ra yap wa avrov 

 K\e7TTCi. Ibid. ix. l8, 6l6b ev/z^ayos de Kal deirrvocpopos Kal erraypos, 



