158 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



iniZA (continued}. 



tradition, and on the ground of the resemblance of the name to the 

 various forms of the word am^os, which is still the Mod. Gk. name of 

 the bird : partly also because the other common birds which might be 

 meant (Goldfinch, Greenfinch, and Linnet) are fairly well identified 

 under other names. 



imzi'AI. (Cod. Med. <myi'<). 



Mentioned (by name only) in Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, ix. 36, 

 620. (micas' iepaKos el8os, Hesych. Identified by tradition with 

 the Sparrow-hawk, Accipiter m'sus, L. ; vide s.v. Wpicos. 



iniZl'THI. The Great Tit or Ox-eye, Parus major, L. eifioy alyiQa- 

 XoO opvcov, Hesych. 

 Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b. Vide s. v. alyiOaXos. 



im'NOX. Also <nriv6<s (Photius), cnripa, crmnrj, ami'Oia, Hesych. Cf. 

 also amyyos, cnruyyas, myyas, Hesych. Dim. amvfoiw, Ar. fr. 

 344 : ami'ioi', Eubul. Incert. 14. 



Probably identical with oiriyyos, <rm'a, the Chaffinch; still so- 

 called (Heldr.). 



Ar. Av. 1079 ort crvveipav TOVS cnrivovs TrwXet Kad* CTTTCI roujSoXov. Pax, 

 1148, Fr. 443, Eubul. ap. Athen. ii. 65 c Tt'XXcti/ re (f)aTTas KOI Ki^Xas 



6/ZOU | (JTIIVOIS. 



Ael. iv. 60 (TTTiVoi de apa cro(p<aTpoi KCU avdpa>Tra>v TO p.e\\ov rrporyvw- 

 KCVCU, icraat yovv KOL x fL ! JL ^ )Va /teXXoira, KCU ^ioi/a (ffOfuvrjv TrpojUT/^eoTara 

 f(pv\davTO. Koi TOV KaraXrjfpdfjvai Seel, airodidpdo-Kovcriv es ra d\<r(i)dr) x^P^ ) 

 KOI avTols ra ddcrrj Kprjcrrpvyera as civ CITTOIS fcrriv. Cf. Theophr. De Sign. 

 vi. i, 3 ; Arat. 1024. 



Dion. De Avib. iii. 2, 4 a/*a rols aXXoi? arrpovdiois rots- Kara TOV ftoppav 

 ciridrjfjLoicri TOV eapoy t^w tfqpaij/rai, Tols KaXdpois eiriKadicravTfs, K.T.\. 

 0ea/iara>i/ 6' rjdicrTov crTpovdovs opav t|ai ircTTfO'rjfJifVovs Kal KaTaninTOVTas (!). 



inOPn'AOX. In Ar. Av. 300, SiropyiXos probably means a Sparrow, 

 and the usual reference to Sporgilos, a barber, if justified 

 at all, makes the joke a double-barrelled one. The word is 



the same as atrepyovXos or cnrepyvs, and as Mod. Gk. O-TTOU/)- 



yiYjjr, a Sparrow, irvpyinis, a word applied to a Sparrow by 

 Galen, &c., is rendered in the dictionaries turrilis, as if from 

 Trvpyos: it is obviously cr-TrvpyiTrjs; in like manner irtpyov\os, 

 Hesych. = cr-7repyov\os ' } and I have suggested above, somewhat 

 less confidently, that irpeo-fivs as a bird-name should perhaps read 

 aneppvs=<rnpyvs. These words form a parallel series, with n 



