154 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



ZEMl'PAMIZ' 7rfpio-Tpa opeios, 'EXXijwori, Hesych. Cf. Diodor. ii. 6. 

 Vide S. V. irepiorepd. 



ZE'PKOZ- dXe/crpvobi/, KOI aXcKTopioes acXices, Hesych. Baethgen, De vi 

 et signif. Galli, Diss. Inaug., Getting. 1887, p. 10, collates feXicos, 

 a word inscribed together with the image of a Cock on a Cretan 

 vase (Roulez, Choix de vases de Leide, p. 40, nr. 13), and this in 

 turn with rA^ai/or, s. Ff\x avos > Zf ^ s f/ 3 " Kpj/o-iV, Hesych., inscribed 

 also on a coin of Phaestus (Bull. Inst. Arch., 1841, p. 174); further 

 he suggests a kindred reference to the opvis TlfpmKos, in the corrupt 

 Hesychian gloss, SeX^pot* Uepa-ai. A coin of Phaestus figured in 

 the Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins (Crete, p. 63, pi. xv. 10), bears the same 

 inscription and shows the god seated holding a Cock on his knee. 



ZE'PTHZ' yepavos, UoXXvpprjviot, Hesych, 

 ZlAAENAPl'Z* notos opvis napa KaXXi^tci^o), Hesych. 



Schn. in Arist. H. A. viii. 3 (vol. ii. p. 596) suspects this bird to be 

 identical with the corrupt KaXi'Spis, s. o-KavSpts, s. oxaXt&pis, of 

 Arist., and suggests aicaXuSpts as an emendation for both. Cf. 

 also aiaXis. 



ZIAAI'X. A bird so-called from its cry. Didymus ap. Athen. ix. 

 392 f. Also Hesych. 



Zl'NTHI. Vide s.v. 



- 7re'p&, Uepyaioi, Hesych. 



ZITAPrz. An unknown bird, o-i'rrq' ^ v\>v o?/uu \tyoptwi o-irapis-, Suid.: 

 cf. Zonar. 1645, Lob. Proll. p. 30. 



ZITTA'KH, Philostorg. H. E. Hi. ii. aiTTaK<Js, Ael. xvi. 15, Arrian. 

 Ind. i. 8, &c. Vide s.v. 



Zl'TTAZ = airraKOS. crtrras, opvis Trotof evtoi 8e TOV ^firraKov Xeyovviv, 



Hesych. 



Zl'TTH. (Some MSS. have O-I'TTTTTJ in Arist. H. A. ix. i.) With a-imrrj 

 cf. (Wry, q. v. Also ITTTO- 6 SpvoKoXa^ edviK&s, Hesych. We might 

 conjecture a form ^irrr?, akin to O. H. G. speh, speht, specht, 

 Lith. spakas, Sk. pika, &c. 



A bird with fabulous attributes, allied to the Woodpecker; opvis 

 TTOIOS, of Se opvoKo\dirTT)s, Hesych. Usually identified with the 

 Nuthatch, Sitta europaea or S. syriaca, which latter very similar 

 species is commoner in Greece (Von der Muhle, Lindermayer) ; 



