196 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



XHNAAiinH= (continued'}. 



' son,' Horap. i. 53 ; cf. Bailey in Class. Journ. xvi. p. 320, and especially 

 Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad., 1876, p. 105, who cites from the 



Rosetta stone *fe^ su-ra = vibs'H\iov. Sacred to the Nile, Herod. 



ii. 72. With cognomen Beoyevfjs, AT. Av. 1295. Its eggs second only 

 to the peacock's, Athen. ii. 586. vmivepia rucra, Arist. H.A. vi. 2, 5590. 

 Mentioned also Plin. x. (22) 29. 



XHNE'Pftl. A small kind of Goose, Plin.x. (22) 29 et quibus lautiores 

 epulas non novit Britannia, chenerotes, fere ansere minores. 



XHNOIKO'noi. Name of an Eagle, Phile, De An. Pr. (15) 376. Cf. 



XAfXPEY'Z. An unknown bird, the statements regarding which are 

 all fabulous. 



Hesych. opviddptov ^Xcopov. Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 noXeuioi TWV 6pvi6a>v 

 iroiKiXides Kal Kopvdaves Kal ninpa KOI xXwpeuy, Tpvywv Kal ^Xwpeus' dno- 

 KTfivei yap TTJV Tpvyova 6 xXcopeur. Hostile to rpvyav, also in Ael. V. 48 ; 

 to Tpvy&v and Ko'pa, Phile, De An. Pr. 690 ; to corvus^ Plin. x. (74) 95 

 noctu invicem ova exquirentes. Supposed by Gesner and Sundevall 

 to be identical with xXttpfor, and by Gaza with x^ w pk, q- v - 



XAflPl'Z. The "Greenfinch, Fringilla chloris, L. Mod. Gk. <Xd>, 



(pivpi (Erh. p. 44, Von derMuhle, p. 47), in Attica o-myydpios (Heldr.). 



Cf. It. verdone, &c. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis arKO)\r}Ko(pdyos. Ib. ix. 13, 615 b ra Ka'ra> 

 e^et w^pa* TJ\IKOV eVri Kopvdos' TI'KT wa re'rrapa 77 TTfvre' veorrLav Troieirai 

 fx. TOV (rvp-cfivTOV e\Kov(ra 7rp6ppiov t (rrpco/xara 8' VTro/SaXXei Tpt'^a? KOI epia. 

 The cuckoo lays in its nest, which is placed in a tree, ibid. 29, 618. 



Ael. IV. 47 XXcopty 6Vo/za opvidos, fJTrep ovv OVK av aXXa^o^ev TTOtj^craiTO 

 TtjV KctXiav % eK TOV Xeyo/zej/ou arvfjLfpvTOv' e&ri 8e pi'C a T o (Tvp.(pVTOv evpedrjvai 

 Tf Kal opvgai ^aXfTTJy. <TTpo>p.vr]V de uTrojSaXXerai rpi'^a? KOI epia. KOI 6 /ueV 

 6r)\vs opvis OVTCO KK\r)Tai, 6 de apprjv y ^Xwpicaj/a KaXovffiv avroV, Kal eVri TOV 

 (3iov fJLTj^avtKos, paQe'iv Tf trav o TI ovv ayaQos, Kai rX^/ncoj/ inroij.e'ivai Tr)v ev rw 

 pavOdveiv /Sacravoj/, orav dXw. Kal 8ta juev TOV x^i-^vos a(perov Kal eXevdepov 

 OVK av i'Sot TIS avTov, rjpival 8e orav VTrap^coi/rai TpoTrai TOV cravs, 

 av enKpaivoiTO. 'ApKTovpos re eVeTeiXci/, 6 Se dva^oapel es TO. oiKeta, 

 Kal ftevpo eVraXij. 



According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, 

 daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird ^Xcopty. 



On the plant O-VH<PVTOV see also Diosc. iv. 10, Fraas, Fl. Cl., p. 163. 

 Lindermayer, I.e., p. 62, says that the Greenfinch builds abundantly in 

 the olive-groves of Attica, making its nest always of the same material, 



