1 68 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TETPA'AHN* opveov ri, 'AX*ato?, Hesych. Cf. ibid. TerpdSucru'* dr,o6va. 

 See Schmidt in /oc., and Bergk, P. Lyr. Gr. iii. p. 192, fr. 154 

 (116). 



TETPAfON' opviddptov TI, Adicavcs, Hesych. Cf. TerpaSwi/. 



TE'TPAE. A doubtful word, applied to the Guinea-fov^L. 



Ar. Av. 885, Eust. 1205, 27. 



A discussion concerning the identity of this bird in Athen. ix. (c. 58). 

 398, C-f. Alex. Mynd. ibid. rcVpal TO p-cyedos "ia-os o-Trep^oXoyw, TO xpco/xa 

 KpafjLOi>s, pvirapais o~Tiyp.als Kai peydXais ypap.iJ.als iroiKiXos, Kapirocpdyos, 

 oTav woTOKT) de, TfTpdei Trj (pcovfj. [The disputants here seem to suppose 

 that Alexander Myndius referred to some very little bird, TWOS 

 Epicharm., ibid, rerpayas o"irepp.aTo\6yovs re Kay\aas 

 ?. . . . epwfitoi . . . rerpayes re [xott] <T7repp.aTO\6yoi. Athen. 1. C. 

 a/ia de ravra \eyovros OVTOU, clo-rj\0 ns (pepav ev T< TaXapw rov TfTpciKa. 

 rjv de TO p,ev peyedos iVep aXe^TpuoVa TOV p.yi(TTOv, TO de eiSos 7rop(f)vpia>vi 

 7rapan\r]o-ios' KOI OTTO T>V &TODV eK.a.Tepa>&fV el% Kpepdp,fva axnrfp of aXe*- 

 TpvovfS TO. KaXXnia' jSapeta 8' r)v f) (pcovrj. tiavpao-avTuv ovv f]p.5)V TO evavdes 

 TOV opvidos p.T ov TroXv Kai co~Kvao~p,vos Traprjve^df]) Kai TO. /cpea 

 rjv TraparrX^o'ia [TOI? TTJS /Lte-ydX^s] CTTpovOov^ rjv KOI avTrjv TroXXttKtS' 



According to Larensius (ap. Athen. 1. c.), he had seen the bird and 

 heard the name in Mysia and Paeonia : he probably alluded to some 

 one of the Grouse family ; cf. tetraon in Plin. x. (22) 29. The bird 

 brought into the banquet was evidently a Guinea fowl, the descrip- 

 tion given of the colour, wattles, &c. being characteristic. The account 

 in Alex. Mynd. is not capable of identification : it also may possibly 

 refer to the Guinea-fowl, which is not mentioned under the name 

 p.e\eaypis by this author. Sundevall supposes that Alex. Mynd. alluded 

 to some small bird, perhaps the Whinchat, Pratincola rubetra^ L., 

 and that the same was identical with rerpi^ and oupd, J. G. Schneider 

 (Anmerk. z. d. Eel. Phys. p. 45) conjectures the Little Bustard, Otis 

 tetrax^ L., on whose cry at breeding-time, cf. Buffon, iv. p. 55. 



The name occurs also in Nemesian, i. 128, Anthol. Lat. 883 (ed. 

 Riese), in a passage, however, which adds nothing definite to our 

 knowledge : Tetracem Romae quern nunc vocitare taracem Coeperunt, 

 avium est multo stultissima ; namque Cum pedicas necti sibi contem- 

 plaverit adstans, Immemor ipse sui tamen in dispendia currit . . . 

 Hie prope Pentinum radicibus Apennini Nidificat, patulis quae se 

 sol obiicit agris, Persimilis cineri dorsum, maculosaque terga Inficiunt 

 pullae cacabantis imagine notae. 



TE'TPAI. A bird-name, Schol. in Ar. Av. 168. Probably = 



