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 GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



"ArAY. 6 kvkvos, vnb 2kv6S>v, Hesych. 



'ArO'P* deros, Kvirpioi, Hesych. 



Bochart (Hieroz. II. c. xi, coll. 79, 80) shows good reason for 

 supposing that deros here should read yepapos, and that dyop is 

 merely Heb. Tttp, a crane (Jerem. viii. 7 ; Is. xxxviii. 14). Cf. 

 Lewysohn, Zool. d. Talmuds, p. 169. 



'ArPAKO'MAI' opvis ns vtto Uap(pi\oiv } Hesych. 



'ArPEY'l. An unknown bird. It is like a Blackbird, black, musical, 

 and a mimic, Ael. viii. 24. The description is somewhat sug- 

 gestive of the Indian Mynah, but it is in the main mystical. Vide 



S. v. K(XTp€US. 



'AAnNHI'Z, s. d&wnqis (cf. Creuzer, Symb. ii. 478). fj xe\i8o>i/, Hesych. 



Cf. dr)8ovis, S. V. cLtjScjk. 



'AEl'lKfl^, vide s. v. <tk6$. 

 'AEAAO'I, an unknown bird, Hesych. 

 'AEPOKO'PAE, vide s. v. Kopa£. 

 'AE'PCW, vide s. v. jj^po\|/. 



'AETO'X. Ep. and Ion. aleros—alrjros in Pind. P.iv, Arat. 522, 591, &c. ; drjros, 

 Arat. 315; alfieros, for al ferns, Hesych. Dim. denbevs, Ael. vii. 47, Aesop, 

 Fab. 1. deros is said to be 'the flyer,' l the Bird? from root af or vi, 

 of Sk. vis, Lat. avis, and of Gk. drjpi : the same root perhaps in 

 ol-av-os (Curt.) and al-yvn-ios ; cf. the Greek use of olavos ; also the 

 Lat. use of ales for Eagle, and opveov in M. Gk. for Vulture. Never- 

 theless, the absence of Eagle-names similar to deros in other Indo- 



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