l8o A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



4>A^ (continued). 



ix. 29, 618. The Cuckoo lays her eggs in its nest (cf. s. v. <|><{a<ra, 

 Arist. De Mirab. 3, 830 b). 

 Mentioned also Lye. 580. 



EAAl'NAX. An unknown water-bird, mentioned, with epithet ra^vf, 

 as being captured in nets, Dion. De Avib. iii. 23. 



4>H'NH. According to Doederlein, connected with (prjvos (= Xaju,7rpo'y), 

 <au, (paivco, &c., i.e. having ra o/A/xara XajuTrpa : or according to 

 Von Edlinger and others, from root bha-n = </>a>i/eu/. I incline 

 to think the word is an exotic, and probably Egyptian, connected 

 with (pow, Eg. bennu. 



A kind of Vulture. 



Od. iii. 371 *Adr}vrj | (ptjvrj fldop,evrj. Od. xvi. 2l6 K\alov 8e Xtyecoff, 

 dSivooTepov 77 r' olavoi, \ (pf]vai rj alyvniol yap^mwx^ s. Ar. Av. 304. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b aeroC peifav, TO xp/ia o-irodoftftes. Ib. ix. 32, 

 619 dfTos 6 yvf)<rtos fjieifav rrjs (prjvijs. Ib. vi. 6, 563, ix. 34, 619 b Kft\r)dtVT(i 

 Tp(f)ft ra roO dcTOv reWa (cf. Ambros. Hexaem. V. l8). eVapyejuos- T' eori 

 Kal TTfTrrjpwTat rovs 6(j)0a\fjLovs (? 3. reference to the blood-red sclerotic of 

 the eye). Its maternal affection referred to (cf. tuyumos, &c.), Opp. 

 Hal. i. 727 KOL [it? TIS (pr'jvrfs dftivbv yoov K\vev dvrjp \ opOpiov dfj.(f)l rz 



Arist. De Mirab. 60, 835 a e' aXiniercoi/ (771/77 yiWrat, CK de 

 TTfpKVoi Kal yiTres. 



Ael. xii. 4 4>rjvr)V 8e Kat apTTT]v 'A.@rjvq rrpoave/JLovo'iv. 



According to Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. vi, Zeus -metamorphoses the 

 wife of Periphas into the bird 0ryi>/7, Kal 81801 rrpos aVao-ai/ npa^iv av^pcoTroi? 

 ata-iav enKpaiveadai : cf. Ovid, Met. vii. 399. 



Also ^tJ'i'S, Diosc. ii. 58 (pivis TO opveov, o 'Pttftatari Ka\ovo-iv oo-o-i(ppayov: 

 cf. Plin. x. 3. 



Identified by Aldrovandi, Gaza, and by most moderns, with the 

 Aquila barbata of Pliny, N. H. x. 3, that is to say with our Lammer- 

 geier, Gypaetus barbatits, L., which is accurately described by Dion. 

 De Avib. i. 4 under the name fipimj. The Lammergeier is also 

 identical with Lat. ossifraga (Plin. 1. c.), a name accurately descriptive of 

 its habits, and Lat. sanqualis (Festus, 316,317). The brief description 

 in Arist. H. A. viii, inclines Sundevall, Aubert, and Wimmer, to identify 

 <pT)vr) with Vultur monachus. The references are in the main poetical 

 or mythical, and both the name and the stories of the bird's maternal 

 affection seem to me to point to an Egyptian origin. With the stories 

 of the Eagle's bastard brood, cf. the Mod. Gk. name /u77XaSeX0t = 

 Tfpoda\r)s (Coray,*ATaKra, v. 204), said by Heldreich to be applied 

 to Aquila Bonellii. 



