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QTI1 (continued}. 



last description is perhaps taken from the Little Bustard, O. tetrax, 

 Mod. Gk. ^a/Lion'So.) Paus. x. 34, I ai Se oori'Se? KaXou/u,ei/ai Trapa TOV 

 Kj?(pto~6y (rov eV <J?am'i) rc/toyrat juaXura opviOaiv. 



Capture by Coursing, with horse and dog. Xen. Anab. i. 5, 3 ra? 8e 

 wn'Sa? af TIJ TO^U avio~Trj eari \ap.{Bdv(iv' Trerovrai re yap (Spa^u axTrrep ol 

 TrepStKfs Kal ra^u aTrayopevouori* ra 5e Kpea avrtov fjdea eo~Ttv (but cf. Plin. 

 1. c.). Athen. ix. 393 d, quoting Xenophon, adds from Plutarch, aXrjdrj 

 \iytiv TOV SevofpwvTa' (pepeadai yap Tra/ujroXXa TO. a>a ravra els TTJV 

 'AXedV8peiai> drro rrjs TrapaKfip.evr)s Aifivr)?, TTJS Qypas avrwv Toiavrrjs yivo- 

 fievrjs. Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. 1. C. Trpoarayopeveo-dai avrov \aya>diav. 

 Synes. Ep. iv. p. 165 ^'5/ 5e TLS Ka\ o>ri8a e8a)K6j/, opveov CKTOTTMS f]dv. 



Friendship for the horse. Ael. ii. 28 TTJV con'Sa TO ov opvidav tlvai 

 ^iXiTTTroraroj/ axoua) . . . ITTTTOV Se orav deda-rjrai, ^Sio-ra Trpoo-Tre'rerdi. Alex. 

 Mynd. 1. C. (pa<rl ' avrov Kal rrjv rpcxprjv dvafJiapvKa(r6ai fjSe<rdai re iTTTrw, ei 

 yovv TIS dopav tmrav Trepi^otro, drjpeva-fi ovovs av Be\rj' Trpocriaai yap. 

 Cf. Plut. Sol. Anim. xxxi. 7 (ii. 981 B) ; Opp. Cyn. ii. 406; Dion. De 

 Avib. iii. 8. 



Hostile to the dog, Ael. v. 24, and grossly deceived by the fox, 

 ib. vi. 24. 



Buffon and others have supposed from the name wris that the 

 Houbara (which is very rare in Greece) is chiefly meant : but the 

 etymology is doubtful ; the ' ears ' are not mentioned save by Oppian, 

 Cyneg. ii. 407 a>r/6Vy, alert T0r]\v del Xao-itoraroj/ ovas : and besides the 

 cheek-tufts of the Common Bustard might suggest ears as well as the 

 crest of the Houbara. It is however the Houbara, as the common 

 African species, which is alluded to in Plutarch ap. Athen. I.e. 



*QTOI, s. WTOS. 



A Horned Owl, especially the Short-eared Owl, Strix brachyotus 



or Asio acdpitrinus. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 12, 587 b, mentioned along with opriryo/^rpa and 

 Ki>xpap,os as a migratory bird, in connexion with the migration of the 

 quails. Further (loc. dub., A. and W.) 6 ' eoros O/JLOIOS TOW y\avgl Kal nepl 

 rd ojra nrepvyia e%a)v' evtoi S' avrov WKriKOpaKa KaXovcriv (cf. Hesych.). 

 O"ri de Ko/SaXo? Kal /u/z^r^s 1 , Kal dvTop%ovfjLfvos dXiV/ferai, Trepif\66vTos 

 Qarepov TO>V QrjpevT&v, Kaddirep r] y\av. Cf. Arist. ap. Athen. ix. 390 f 

 6 cards' eVrt pev Trapopoios rfj y\avKi } OVK eort de wurepivos . . . peyedos 

 TTfpiCTTfpas, K.r.X. 



In Athen. ix. 390 d, a ridiculous story of its capture by mimicry : 

 oi 8e (rrdvTfs avr>v KaravriKpv viraXeifpovrat (pappaKco TOVS o^^aX/iovy, 

 Trapao-fcevacravre? aXXa (pdppaKa KoXXjjriKa 6(pda\p,S)V Kal /3Xe^)apa)V, aVfp 

 ou Trdppo) eavT&v eV \KavicrKaLS (Spatial? ridfaatv' ol ovv aroi Qeupovpevoi 

 TOVS inraXeifpofJievovs TO OVTO Kal atrol TTOIOVO-IV, K T&V \Kavid<av Xa/ij3a- 



