Al rOKE<t>AAOI— AI0YI A 1 7 



AITftAlOX {continued). 



[here Camus, reading cmtwAio?, and following Belon and Buffon, trans- 

 lates Milvus niger, the Black Kite]. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 17, 616 b WKTivopos eVrt, kcu rjpepas dXiydicis cpaiverai. 

 oIkcI nerpas not <nrr)\vyyas' tan yap 8l0aXXos [Gaza tr. victus gemini, 

 Guil. divaricata, v. Aub. and Wimm. ii. p. 248], rfjv 8e dtdvoiav (3ic>>tik6s 

 Ka\ evfir)x avos ' Ib« V1 > 6, 5^2 eviore 8e ml rerrapas c£dya pcottovs [Plin. 

 x. 79 (60)]. 



The metamorphosis of Aegolius, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. Met. 19. 



If diBaWos means particoloured, alyaXios is clearly the White or 

 Barn Owl, Strix Jtam?nea } L., as Littrd (ad Plin.) takes it to be ; 

 it however does not catch birds, and is said to be scarce in Greece 

 (v. d. Miihle, Lindermayer). Gesner transl. by ulula, and identifies 

 it with the Tawny Owl. Sundevall librates between the Tawny and 

 the Barn Owl ; A. and W. incline to the former. See atyoKe^aXos, 

 ciroXios. 



Af OYIA. A poetic word, of uncertain or indefinite meaning. 



Probably a large Gull, e.g. Larus marinus, the Black-backed Gull 

 (Sundevall), or L. argentatus, the Herring Gull (Kriiper), the former 

 being rare in Greece. Netolicka's hypothesis of the Merganser, and 

 that of Groshans that it was a Diver or Grebe, do not tally with 

 Aristotle : Schneider's identification with the Skua, Lestris parasiticus, 

 fails, inasmuch as the latter does not dive (vide Buchholz, op. c. pp. 112, 

 113) nor does it breed in the Mediterranean. The Herring Gull is 

 abundant during the winter and breeds about the middle of April : 

 the Common Tern {Sterna anglica) lays about the same time (Kriiper) 

 but in the lagoons and not on the cliffs. 



Od. V. 337, 353. Arist. H. A. V. 9, 542 b 17 8' aidvia Ka\ ol \dpoi tiktovo-l 

 pev iv rals nep\ OdXaTTav trerpais, to pev 7rXrj0os 8110 rj rpia' dXX' 6 pev 

 Xdpos tov Oepovs, fj 8' a'LBvia dpxopevov tov eapos [cf. Mergus, Plin. x. 32 

 (48)] ev0vs €< rponav. ovderepov 8e (jxoXevei. Also i. I, 487 ; viii. 3, 593 b. 

 Arrian, Peripl., ed. Didot, 1855, i. p. 398, names it with Xdpoi and 

 Kop&vai al 0aXdo~aioi ) and Hesych. renders aWviai by thakuu Kopcbvai. 

 Frequent in the Gk. Anthol. ; e.g. Glauc. vi, vol. iii. p. 58 <3Xero yap 

 o~vv vtjt, ra. 8' oarea nov nor eneivov ^TrvOerai, aWviais yvcoara povais eveneiv, 

 cf. Marc. Arg. xxxi, ibid. ii. p. 250 ; Callim. xci ; Leon. Tar. xci, Gk. 

 Anthol. i. p. 178 tov aWvirjs rrXeiova vrj^dpevov : Anon. ibid. iv. p. 143 

 (TTjpayyos dXtKTvnov 6s rode valeis clarifies aWviais lx0vfi6Xoiai Xenas. 

 Phile, De Anim. Pr. 680, is hostile to neXapyos and Kp«£. Is said to 

 be deaf and dumb, Aristoph. Hist. Anim. Epit. i. 141. 



The metamorphosis of Hyperippa, daughter of Munychus, Nicander 

 ap. Anton. Lib. Met. 14. 



Arat. Phen. 918, a sign of rain ; noXXdicis 8' dypiddes vrjaaai rj clvaXL8ivai 



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