AHAGN— AirOKE4>AAOI. 15 



Arri0O2 (also cuyivGos). An unknown and mythical bird, identified 

 by the older commentators (e. g. Belon) with the Linnet. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609, 610 ova noXe'pios (cf. Antig. Hist. Mirab. 58 

 (63) ; Ael. H. A. v. 48 ; Dion. De Avib. i. 12 ; Phile 696 ; Plin. x. 95). 



7roXepioi de Ka\ (ivdos Kai aKavOls Kai aiyidos. lb. ix. 1 5, 6l6b etpiooros 

 K<u iro\vT€Kvo$, tov noda ^coXo?. [Many MSS. have alyioBos : for ^coXo? 

 some texts read «>XP° S > or X^P^i tne latter Albertus Magnus, but cf. 

 aiyidos dpcfuyvrjeis, Callim. fr. ap. Antig. 1. c. ; Plin. x. (8) 9.] Xeyerai 8' 

 on aly'iOov Kai avBov alpa ov avppiyvvTai dXXrjXois '. idem, Pliny X. (74) 



95 (who calls it avis minima), Ael. H. A. x. 32, and Phile 432, the 

 same statement of aKavdis and alyidaXos, and Antig. H. M. 106 (114) 

 the same of aiyidos and aKavdis. Dion. De Avib. iii. 14 drjpdrai kXcojSco, 

 h cp ndXai dr)padels ercpos e'nl to $oav KaTOKXeieTai. Antig. H. M. 45 (5 1 )? 

 how aiyidos sucks the goats (v. alyodqXas) and is g«X& ( [Aegithus 

 solo nomine huic nostrae aetati cognitus, P. Hardouin, Annott. ad 

 Plin. x. 8.] Vide s. vv. 6\kclv6Ls, avQos. 



AlTl'no*. A Macedonian name for the Eagle. Etymol. M. 



AlTOOH'AAI. The Goatsucker or Nightjar, Caprimulgus euro- 

 paeus, L. 



The name is probably corrupt, and the mythical attribute of the bird 

 due to a case of ' Volksetymologie.' 



M. Gk. name yibofivo-Tpa is a corrupt translation of alyodrjXas (Heldr. 

 p. 37). Also called Pv£do-rpa, wKTeplda (i. e. the Bat, v. d. Miihle), wk- 

 TonaTTjs, and nXdvos (Erh.). (Cf. Germ. Ziegenmelker, Kuhinelker, Fr. 

 tette-chevre, &c.) 



Arist. H. A. ix. 30, 618 b opvis opeivos, piKpcp pe'ifav kottvo^ov, KOKKvyos 

 eXaTTwv' <oa dvo [cf. Lindermayer, p. 38, Kriiper, p. 183, &c] fj rpla' to 

 be rjdos fiXaKiKos [verb, dub., cf. Aub. andWimm. in Arist. 1. c.]. GrjXd&i 

 de tcis alyas. ovk o^vqjttos ttjs rjpepas. Ael. H. A. iii. 39 ToXprjpoTaTOS 

 £(oa>p .... imri&CTat Tals algi Kara to KapTepov, ko.1 tois ovdaaiv avTcov 

 npoaneTopevos eira eV/xvfa to ydXa .... ru0Xot tov paarov, ko.1 d-noo-^evvvo-i 

 ttjv eKeWev emppor)v. Cf. Plin. x. 56 (40). Vide s.vv. alyiGaXos, cuyidos. 



Al'rOKE'<t>AA02. Probably a kind of Owl: perhaps the Horned or 

 Long-eared Owl, Strix otus, L., or its small ally Ephialtes scops, 

 K. Bl. The latter is the Asio of Plin. x. (23), xxix. 38, which name 

 in its Italian diminutive form is Shelley's ' Sad Aziola/ 



Arist. H. A. ii. 15, 506 oXeos ovk e^ 61 T0V o-nXrjva' ttjv x<>Xr)V ex" npos tcS 

 rjirari Kai irpbs rfj KoiXlq. lb. ii. 1 7, 509 tov oropaxov e^ct evpvTepov to 

 Karoo. 



Gesner (p. 62) mentions Capriceps as an unknown bird. Neither 

 Sundevall nor Aubert and Wimmer pronounce an opinion on it : the 



