138 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



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Kal rpiynbv afpirjai Kal ci\\as (j)a>vds, H. A. ix. 8, 614 ; cf. Plut. ii. 727 D. 

 /xera/3aXXei ro xP^M a ) De Color. 6. 798 ; albino variety, De Gen. v. 785 b. 

 oo-cppr)o-iv 8oKei exftv f7ridr)\ov, H. A. vi. 2, 560 b, cf. De. Gen. iii. I, 751. 

 Kox^ias eo-dtel, H. A. ix. 37, 621, Athen. ix. 3900 (01 ev 2Kui0a>), and how 

 the snails (ot KaX. dpeiovts) to elude them leave their shells behind, 

 Ael. x. 5. 6 f)yfp.wv T>V dypiuv, ol x*JP l > Athen. 1. c., Arist. H. A. ix. 8, 614. 

 Nest and Breeding Habits. Lays ten to sixteen eggs (Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 8, 6i3b, cf. Ael. x. 15) which are white (H. A. vi. 2, 559) ; vTrrjvefua (Ib. 

 560). Nest : H. A. ix. 8, 613 b ov iroiovvTai veoTTiav. aXX' orav 7roir}o~a>VTat 

 (V TO> Xei'a) Kovio'Tpav, eTrrjXvyacrdfJievoi aKavddv Tiva KOI v\rjv TTJS Trepl TOVS 

 lepaKas ev(Ka Kal TOVS aerovs aXecopas, IvravSa T'LKTOVO~I, Kal eTra)dovo~iv I cf. 



Ael. iii. 16, x. 15 ; Plin. x. (33) 51 ; Ovid, Met. viii. 258. Arist. H. A. vi. 8, 



564 dvo rroiovvTai r>v (p)v o~rjKovs } KUI e0' <u fj.fv rj 6r)\eia eVl 8e 0arepw 6 

 apprjv eircod^fi, Kal eifXtyas /nrcfurct eKarfpos cKarcpa : cf. Athen. I.e., 

 Antig. H. Mirab. 101 (no). Hence, perhaps, the allusion in Ar. Av. 

 767 rrepdit; yeveo-^o), TOU narpos veorriov : cf. also Phryn. ap. Athen. 

 ix. 3893 TOV KXeo/zjSpoTo'j/ re TOV | irepdiKos viov. Dion. De Avib. i. II 

 doXepov TO yevos cVrtV, cos KOL TOVS VCOTTOVS yiv<no~Kiv OTTO)? av&pa ~x.Ph 

 TTpoaiovTa ft-a.7raTq.it, <pv\\ois r) jSooXois 1 KaXv\|^a/nefovs. Cf. Plut. De Solert. 



An. p. 971. 



Its salacity. De Gen. ii. 746 b, iii. 749 b, Ael. iv. i, vii. 19, c., c. 



fito Kal TO. eJa TTJS 6r)\eias crui/rpi/3ei Iva aTroXavr] TWV d<ppo$io~icovl Arist. ap. 

 Athen. 1. c., Ael. iii. 5. (With this and similar fables, cf. Jerem. xvii. 1 1). 

 e ol xnP ot a vTa>v npos d\\fj\ovs Kal 6 fjTTrjdfls o^ewerai virb TOV 

 Athen. 1. C., Plin. 1. C. oxfvovo-i 8e Kal ol Tidao-ol TOVS dypiovs' 

 de TOVTO Kara Tiva &pav TOV erovy, Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. 1. C. 

 TOVS VCOTTOVS oxevovo'i, H. A. vi. 8, 5^4- av KCITO. ai/ep.ov crT&ffiv al Brfkfiai 

 T&v dppevwVj ey<voL ylvovTaC 7ro\\aKis de Kal TTJS (ptovrjs (dKOvcraaai], edv 

 6py5)o~ai ru^coai, Kal vTTfpir^TOp.evaiv ex. TOV KaT(i7rvevo~ai TOV cippeva' x ao ~ KL ^* 

 Kal f) 6rj\eia Kal 6 apprjv, Kal TYJV y\5)TTav eo) e^ovcri TTfpi TrjV Trjs o^et'a? 

 TToirjaiv, H. A. v. 5, 541 ; cf. De Gen. iii. i, 751, Ael. xvii. 15, Antig. 

 H. Mirab. 81 (87), Athen. I.e., Plin. 1. c., c. 



Bastards, eK nepSiKos Kal dXeKTpvovos, De Gen. ii. 738 b. 

 How the young chip the shell, &o~7rep dcpoKoirovvres, and are inde- 

 pendent from the first : Ael. iv. 12. 



Capture and Domestication. Decoy partridges, Arist. H. A. ix. 8, 

 614, vi. 2, 560 b, Ael. iv. 16, Xen. Mem. ii. i. 4. Various modes of 

 capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 7 ; cf. Simm. Rh. iv, Gk. Anthol. i. p. 137 

 aypdra 7repdi | ovKeTi 6r]pevo-fis /SaXi'ov? (Tvvo}jLijhiK.as. Epitaph on a tame 

 partridge, Agath. Ixxxv, Gk. Anthol. iv. 35 rX^ojf crKontXav /uerai/dorpm 

 Trfpdit; (also others by Democharis, c.). 



The sport of partridge-fighting (still practised in the Greek Islands), 

 and how the females are kept at hand to stimulate the courage of the 



