A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



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K&rras for o-KSmas, and Aristotle likewise : so also Speusippus ; cf. 

 Ael. xv. 28, and Cobet's note [falso dixit hoc Alexander, Casaubon 

 in Athen. ii. 358]. Doederlein, Horn. Gloss. 2359, finds the 

 stem in Kvfirjvais (yXau^i), Hesych., L. cucubare, &c. ; in which case 

 KiKKapTj (q. v.), and Mod. Gk. KovKovpata, would seem to be cog- 

 nate. Hesych. has also O-KOKCS. The name resembles the cry 

 of the bird, and is in part at least onomatopoeic : cf. It. jacopo. 

 In Switzerland it is called Todtenvogel, and cries Tod, Tod, Tod, 

 Hopf. Orakelthiere, p. 102. 



The Little Horned Owl or Scops Owl, Ephialtes scops, L. Mod. 

 Gk. KXaxrcros, ^LU>VI (Erh.). 



Od. V. 66 (TKatTTes T "prjKes Tf TavvyKaHTvol re Kopwvai | etfdXicu. 

 Theocr. Id. i. 134 KTJ opeW roi or/coWrey cfyfido-i yapvo-aivro. 

 Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b e'Xdrrooi/ yXavicos. Two varieties; H. A. 

 ix. 28, 617 b (TKOiirfs fi' ol fj.ev del ncKrav &pav ei(ri, /ecu KaXovvTai deioTCaJTres', 

 Kal OVK eirdiovrcu fiia TO ajSpooroi eimi* erepoi fie ylvovrai eV/ore row 0$ij/o7ra)- 

 pov, (paivovrai d' e'cp* fj^epnv p.iciv f) dvo TO TrXetcrroi', Koi lo~lv cScofiijuot Kal 

 (T<p68pa evdoKip.ovo~iv' Kal diafpepovcri TU>V dficrKcoTroov KaXov/ieVcov OVTOI aXXw 

 fjiev a>s flirclv oiiSfvi, TW 8e nd^et' Kal OVTOI p.ev io~iv acpoai/oi, fKelvoi 8e 

 (pdeyyovrat. rrepl 8e yevfa-fcas avrStv TJTIS O~TIV, ovOev a>7rrai, TT\TJV OTI 

 Tols frcpvpiois (paivovTai. Cf. Callimachus ap. Athen. ix. 391 b ; Ael. 

 XV. 28 dia(f)povo-i de TO>V dfio-Kanrw rc5 Trd^fi, K<U el< 

 Tpvyovi Kal cpaTTr] (vide Jacobs, in loc.). 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 391 b piKpoTepos eVrt y\avKos, Kal 



Trap' exarfpoj/ KpoTafpov dvafpepet TTTepd '. cf. Ael. 1. C. 



The account given of the size of the bird and the descriptions in 

 Athenaeus and Aelian agree perfectly with the Scops Owl ; this is 

 a noisy bird, repeating its cry with monotonous persistence. But it 

 appears to spend the summer only in S. Europe, migrating to Africa 

 in winter. The passage in Aristotle is perhaps faulty in this con- 

 nexion, owing to misinterpretation of the name deia-KO)^ as though 

 from del. Sundevall supposes the other variety to be the Short-eared 

 Owl, Strix brachyotus, a somewhat larger species, which appears 

 merely to pass through Greece on its migrations : vide infra, s.v. WTOS. 

 The bird o-Ka>^r was quite unknown to Pliny, x. (49) 70 ; as apparently 

 also to Hesych., who has o-K&Tres' eldos opvew, oi fie KO\OIOVS. 



According to Metrodorus ap. Athen. 1. c. dvTopxovp.tvovs dXia-Kea-dat 

 TOVS <rKo)TTas. Hence ovcco^ and o~Ka>TTfvp,a as the name of a dance, 

 Ael. xv. 28, Athen. ix. 391 a, xiv. 629 f, where there is a confusion 

 between O-KCOX//- and O-KOTTOS, VTTOO-KOTTOS : cf. yXau. See also O. Jahn, 

 Vasenbilder, p. 24 ; Rochett, J. des savans, 1837, pp. 514-517. 



