WTTAKH (continued}. 



Ael. vi. 19, xvi. 2, 15, its wisdom and vocal powers; xiii. 18, is 

 reckoned sacred among the Brahmins ; xvi. 2, is of three species. 



Dion. De Avib. i. 19 rot? \J/-trraKoIy 5e, ovs OVK ev t-vXivocs KXafiols dXX' 

 ls (ppovpdv avayKalov, ^XP 1 - Ka * T ^ s yp*T*pas y\(ao-(rr)s utdrjyrja-e ras 

 17 (pv(Tis. 

 Is friendly to the wolf, Opp. Cyn. ii. 408, 409 ^ITTOKOS avre \VKOS re crvv 



Vfj.ovTaC | aiei yap Trodeovcri \VKOI rroeaixpoov opviv, 

 The Indian parrots above alluded to are the common parrots of 

 Northern India, Psittacus (Palaeornis] Alexandria L. (Cf. Val. Ball, 

 Ind. Antiq. xiv. p. 304, 1885.) The parrots seen by Nero's army at 

 Meroe (Plin. vi. (29) 35) must have been another specks, P. cubicularis, 

 Hass, and probably all the parrots described by Roman writers (Ovid, 

 Amor. ii. 6, Statius, Silv. ii. 4, Apul. Florid. 12, Persius Prologue, and 

 even Plin. x. (42) 58) came from Alexandria and belonged to that 

 species. They are described as green by Stat., ille plagae viridis 

 regnator Eoae ; Ovid, Tu poteras virides pennis hebetare smaragdos, 

 Tincta gerens rubro Punica rostra croco, c. Cf. Sundevall, op. cit., 

 pp. 126, 127, 



vp|<|>ArON' piKpov opviddpiov, Hesych. 



'aKY'HTEPOI. An epithet of a Hawk, used specifically in Ael. xii. 4. 

 Cf. II. xiii. 62, &c. 



'ftPl'ftN, s. wptwK. An unknown and mystical bird. 



Clit. ap. Ael. xvii. 22 : an Indian bird, like a Heron, red-legged, 

 blue-eyed, musical, amative. Nonn. Dion. xxvi. 201 &>piW, y\vKvs opvis, 

 ofjLouos e/j.(ppovi. KvKVcp. Cf. Strab. xv. 718. 



This bird, always associated with the equally mysterious Karpevs, is 

 evidently a poetic and allegorical creation, but what it signifies is 

 unknown. 



Also ouris, Galen, Hesych. 

 The Bustard, Otis tarda, L. ; including also the Houbara, O. 



Honiara. Mod. Gk. dypi6ya\\os, Erh. ; or/Sa, Von der Miihle. 



Lat. tar da, whence Bustard, i.e. avis Tar da, Plin. x. (22) 29 



Proximae eis (tetraonibus) sunt quae Hispania aves tardas appellat, 



Graecia otidas. 



Description. Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 TOV oro/Liaxoi> e'^ei evpvv KOI TtXarvv 

 o\ov' a7ro(pvddas e^ei. Ib. V. 2, 539 (rvyKadeio-r)? rrjs QrjXeias enl rr]v yrjv 

 eVtjSaiWi TO appev. Ib. vi. 6, 563 eTrwa^et Trepi TpiaKovC? rjpepas (like Other 

 large birds, e. g. goose and eagle). Arist. Fr. 275, 1527 b, ap. Athen. ix. 

 390 c eVri p,v TWV KTO7Ti.6vTa>v Kal cr^iSaj/OTrdSooj/ KOI Tpi8aKTv\a>v } fjityeSos 

 d\CKTpv6vos jueyaXov, XP^^ a oprvyos, K(pa\r) 7rpop.r)KT)s, pvyxos o|u, rpdx^os 

 \fTTTos, 6<pOa\p,ol /neyaXot, yXwcraa ocrrcbS^s 1 , vrpoXo/Soi/ 5' OVK \ei. (This 



