176 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



<t>AAAKPOKO'PAE. A bird, commonly identified, on the strength 

 of its name (cf. <j>a\apts)j with the Coot; according to others, 

 the Cormorant. See also s. v. Kopa, |3. 



Plin. x. (48) 68 lam et in Gallia Hispaniaque capitur [attagen], et 

 per Alpes etiam, ubi et phalacrocoraces, aves Balearium insularum 

 peculiares. Cf. ib. xi. 47 quaedam animalium naturaliter calvent, 

 sicut . . . corvi aquatici, quibus apud Graecos nomen est inde. 



4>AAAPI'I, s. <J>a\T]pi's. (MSS. have also (papaXis.) 



((pdXos, the ' beak ' of a helmet ; $dXapo?, a white spot or ' blaze ' ; 

 cf. Germ. Bksshuhn, from Bletz = blaze, Buttm. Lexil. s. v. $dXos : 

 the Engl. bald-coot is analogous.) 

 The Coot (?), Fulica atra, L. Mod. Gk. <paXapi8a (Heldr.). 



Ar. Ach. 875, Av. 565 r\v 'A^poSiT/; Ovy, Trvpovs opvidi (paXrjpiSi dveiv 

 (ubi Schol. r) fie (pa\r)p\s opi/eoV eari Xifj.vaiov cvrrpfires). Arist. H. A. 

 viii. 3> 593 h opvis oreyai/oTrouy, /3apurepos* Trept noTafj.ovs KOI XL/JLVUS e'ortV. 

 (Mentioned with KVKVOS, J^TTO, KoXup/3i's.) Id. fr. 273, 1527 b aXXarreo-0ai 

 a>s T<JDV Koa~a'v(f)a)v KOI ^aX^piScai/ aTroXevKatvonevav Kara Kaipovs. 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 395 e fj 8e (f)a\ap\s KCU avrr} o-revbv e^oucra 

 TO pvyxps (TTpoyyvXcorepa rr]v ofyiv ouaa, evrecppos rf)v yaorepa, fjn<p<a 

 p.\avTepa TO V>TOV. Cleom. ap. Athen. ix. 393 C <pa\^pi8as rapixnpas 

 p-vpias. Its mode of capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 23. Plin. x. (48) 57 

 Phalerides in Seleucia Parthorum et in Asia, aquaticarum lauda- 

 tissimae; Colum. viii. 15, I ; Varro, R. R. iii. II, 4. 



The identification rests mainly on the modern name, of which 

 Sundevall and Aubert and Wimmer seem to have been unaware, and 

 is supported by the derivation of the word. Sundevall suggests Mergus 

 albelhts, and Aubert and Wimmer also suppose a species of Mergus. 

 Gesner, Camus, and other older commentators agree in the identifica- 

 tion of Coot. At best the identification is doubtful, and the various 

 references perhaps refer to more birds than one. The allusion in 

 Athenaeus to ten thousand salted (paXrjpidas is especially puzzling. The 

 connexion with Aphrodite in Ar. Av. 565, where we might rather 

 have expected some such word as Trepiorepa, is not explained. 



<t>AIIANO'l, s. $a.<Tia.vi.K.6<$ ; sc. opyis. 



A Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus, L. Vide also s. v. re'rapos. 



Mnesim. ap. Athen. ix. 387 b o-rravicorepov napeo-riv opvidoav yd\a | 

 KOI (jjacnavos aTToreriX/zeVos' KaXcos. 



Ar. Av. 69 ; Nub. 109 (sometimes supposed to refer, in the latter 

 passage, to a Phasian horse, cf. Suidas, Lob. Phryn. 460, but not so 

 according to Athen. ix. 387 a). 



Agatharch. ap. Athen. ix. 387 C Trept TOV <3>ao-iSos TrorajuoO TOP \6yov 

 ypd(pL KOI Tavra' " TrXrjdos 5' opvi&av TO>V KaXovpevav (pacriavnv 



