15 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riOP4>YPl'aN. The Purple Gallinule, Porphyrio hyadnthus, Temrn. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 707, 88 1, 1249. Arist. fr. 272, ap. Athen. ix. 

 388 C, d (TX^avo-iroda OVTOV dvai, e^etv re XP^ a <^aveov, <rKe\r) 



e< rrjs Ke(pa\rjs (poiviKovv, peyedos d\(KTpvovos. 

 ov, 8ib TO>V \afj.ftavop.eva)V fls TOV TroSa ra/zieuerat p,iKpa$ TCIS 

 8e TrtWi (H. A. viii. 6, 595 ; Plin. x. (46) 63 morsu 

 bibit). TrevTaSdKTvXos re (?) &v TOV p,f(rov e^ei p.iyi(TTov. Dion. De Avib. 

 i. 29, a similar description, epvdpbv avroJ TO pa/u,<poy e OTI, KCU Kara KetfraXris 

 wo-TTfp riva nl\ov e^ct, onoiovs ol ro^crai ITepo-ai (pepovcriv. Arist. H. A. ii. 

 17, 59 a*V c/J/a fMKpov ex fl ' vre TOV irpoXofiov e^ft ovre TOV (TTopaxov fvpvv 

 dXXa o-(f)6dpa pa<pov. Schol. Ar. Av. 1249 tcvdveoi cia-i. Arist. De Inc. 

 IO. 7IO Callim. ap. Athen. I.e. TT^V Tpoffirjv XafJLJBdvew TOP Troptpvpiava ev 

 CTKOTCO KaTaftvofjifvoV) tvo. fir) Tis avTov 6edo~r)Tai' f~\.6paivfi yap TOVS TrpOffiovTCis 

 avrov Tfl Tpo(pfj. Ael. iii. 42 wpuioraro? re ap.a KOI (^epcoj/u/icorards 1 eVn 

 {<p<ov, KO.\ xaipfi Koviopfvos, &c. According to Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. 

 1. c., it inhabits Libya and is there held sacred. According to Plin. 

 x. 63, it inhabits Commagene (Asia Min.) and a yet nobler sort (x. 69) 

 the Balearic Islands. 



A bird of lofty morals and great vigilance, Polemon ap. Athen. 1. c., 

 Ael. iii. 42, v. 28, vii. 25, viii. 20, xi. 15, Dion. De Avib. i. 29. 



An easy mode of capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 21. 



The descriptions in Arist. fr. 272 and Dionysius clearly refer to the 

 Purple Gallinule : that in Arist. H. A. ii. 17 is supposed by some 

 (I think needlessly) to apply to the Flamingo, the Gallinule not having 

 a very long neck. The bird occurs in Egypt and neighbouring coun- 

 tries : it is rare in Greece, but inhabits Lake Copai's and Lake Dystos 

 in Euboea (Erhard, I.e., also Naumannia, 1858, p. 21), though, accord- 

 ing to other authorities (Von der Mtihle, Heldreich, Kriiper), nothing 

 is known of its occurrence in Greece in recent times. 



nOY'noi. A late word for the Hoopoe ; vide s. v. 



Anon. De Avibus et earum Virtutibus in Medicina (MS. cit. Du 

 Cange, Gloss. S. V. KovKOvfpos), eVox^ opveov ev dept TTOT&IKVOV' OVTOS KuXetrat 



KOVKOV(pOS, KCU TTOVTTOy. 



flPE'lBYI. A name for the Wren =rpoxiXos, Hesych., Arist. H. A. 



ix. 1 1, 615. In this word one is much tempted to suspect a trans- 



position of letters, and to suggest, as a conjectural emendation, 



aire'pjSus; cf. also S.vv. aWpyus, <nropyiXos. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 TroXe/zios 5e KOL 6 vpeo-ftvs Kakovfuvot KOI ya\ij 

 KOI Kopoivrj \rfj yXawuj ra yap wa /cal TOVS VCOTTOVS KaTeo~6iovo~tv avTrjs. In 

 the preceding sentence 6'p^tXoy and y\avg are mentioned as hostile 

 to one another. (Here Sundevall supposes the Jackdaw to be meant, 

 on account of its egg-eating propensities, but the passage is mytho- 

 logical, not prosaic.) 



