148 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riHNEACW (continued*}. 



Hesych., and from its occurrence in some MSS. for the latter in 

 Plin. x. (22) 29, it seems probable that both names are identical, and 

 possible that both are corruptions of a foreign (Egyptian ?) word. The 

 association of m and nrjveXo^ in an obscure and faulty Aristotelian 

 passage, may be a mere confusion arising out of the story of Hermes 

 visiting Penelope in the form of a goat (cf. Creuzer, Symb. iii. p. 502) ; 

 in which case di'| should disappear from the list of bird-names. 



FlhTPIE' nepdig, Kp/jrey, Hesych. 



nfKOZ. A Woodpecker. Lat. /zV&tf ; said to be an Oscan word. 



Strabo, V. 2 nlKov yap TTJV opviv TOVTOV oyo/id^bucn, Kai Vop.iov(n.v "Apecop 

 lepov. See also Dion. Halic. i. 14. Cf. Ovid, F. iii. 37, &c. Cf. also 

 Grimm's D. Myth. p. 388, Creuzer's Symb. iii. 676, iv. 368. 



nfnoi s. miriros. A young chicken, Athen. ix. 368 f. (Casaub. for 



ITTTTOVs). 



ninQ' (MSS. have also mira, TTITTOS, irtirpa. Some editors read unrw, 



cf. unnr]). The Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers, 



Picus major and minor, L. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 uXXa 8' eVri o-Kvnrocpdya, a rovs crKviiras QqpfvovTa 

 fj jLtaXtoro, olov TTiTTo) TJ re /xei^tBi/ KOI f) eXaTTav' K.aXovo'i de rives dp.(p6Tpa 

 ravra dpvoKoXaTTTas' o/nota S' d\Xrj\ois Kai (poovfjv e^ovtriJ/ opoiav, 7r\r)V 

 /iet'^a) TO (jLfi^ov. vepfTat 8' a/Lt<porepa raCra Trpo? ra v\a Trpoo-Trero/xcj/a. 

 Ibid. ix. 21, 617 TO. (TK.\rj jSpa^ea [e^ 64 Kvavos] rfj iriirtp 7rap6p.oia. Ibid, 

 ix. I, 609 : hostile to 7701*1X19, KOpw&JU> t ^Xcopeu?' TO -yap a>a Kareo-diovo-iv 

 d\\r)\a)v, and to e'pwStos (cf. Hesych.) : ra yap Ja KartffBiei Kai TOVS VCOTTOVS 

 TOV fpa>8iov. 



Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. C. 14 17 Se /i^rr/p abriav cyevero wnroXoyos 

 TTtTrco* Trpoy TaiTr]V derco TToXfynos eVn KOI epwSiep* Karayvvai yap avr&v ra 

 a>a, KOTTTouo-a r^v dpvv 8'ta rouy Kvliras (cf. CTITTYJ, q. v.). 



Lycoph. Cass. 476 dvrl TTITTOVS tritopiriov Xatpw o-?rao-ay. Tzetz. in Lye. 

 (edit. Steph. p. 83) TTITTCO opvcov (<TTI OaXdcro'iov evTrperres Kai tveiSes 1 . 



The above identification, setting aside the statement of Tzetzes, 

 depends solely on the existence of two species of Spotted Woodpecker, 

 similar in appearance, but unequal in size. 



m'TYAOI 1 6pvi6dpi6v n aypiov, Hesych. Also iriiruXos, Schol. Theocr. 



x. 50. 

 ni'^YrE (v. 1. m<j>iY, iri^i): m4>Xt^, Suid. An unknown bird = 



KopuSaXos = 7ri<paXXoy, S. TTKpaXXij, Hesych. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 610 ni<piy Kai apirrj KOI IKT'IVOS <pi\oi. Mentioned 

 also by Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xx, in a fabled metamorphosis, together 

 with apTrj;, apira<ros, c. Cf. Etym. M. 673 ; Choerob. Cram. Anecd. 



