1 8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AI0YIA {continued). 



aWvtai x*?™ 10 - rivdao-ovTcu irrepvyco-aiv : cf. Theophr. De Sign. ii. 28, 

 Virg. Georg. i. 362. 



A long but unsatisfactory description in Dion. De Avib. ii. 5. 



A title or epithet of Athene, Paus. i. 5. 3, i. 41. 6. 



Said to be the name of a horse in Mnasalc. xiii. Gk. Anthol. i. p. 125. 



See also Suttttjs, Xdpos. 



Al"=. An unknown bird. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b : mentioned 

 between ^i/aXcon-j^ and trrptkaty as one of the opviBes a-reyavonobts 

 QapvTfpoi (omitted in several MSS.). 



According to Belon the Plover (Vanellus cristatus) was so called 

 in Greece in his time: the interpretation cannot hold. Sundevall 

 conjectures alt- to be one of the smaller Geese (? Anser leucopszs), and 

 to be derived from the goat-like cry. Perhaps as alyoicecpaXos suggests 

 the Horned Owl, so dli~ here suggests the Homed Grebe, Podiceps 

 auritus. Lath., a common bird in Greece in winter. 



AI'PIOAKOX Vide s. vv. ataaicos, cptOaicos. 



AflAKOI. A very doubtful word. 



KaXdrai Se Kal to £cpov 6 alpiOaKos aio-aKos, Etym. M. Cf. Serv. in 

 Aen. iv. 254, v. 128. 



AI*IA'AftN (aladpcov, Hesych.). A sort of Hawk, traditionally identified 

 with the Merlin, Falco aesalon, L. (Gesner, &c). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 to>v Se Upaiccov Sevrepos [777 Kparia]. lb. 

 ix. I, 609 b alyvTTtcS noXeptos' d\a>7reia 7roXepios koi KopciKi. Ael. H. A. 

 ii. 5 1 pd-x^rai 8' 6 K.6pa£ Kai opviOi i<rj(Op^ rco KaX, alo~a.Xcopi, koi otclv 

 BedarjTm aXa)7reia pa^opfvov, Tipoipelrai. Cf. Antig. H. M. 59 (64). Plin. 

 N. H. x. (74) 95 Aesalon vocatur parva avis, ova corvi frangens, 

 cuius pulli infestantur a vulpibus. Invicem haec catulos eius ipsam- 

 que vellit : quod ubi viderunt corvi, contra auxiliantur velut adversus 

 communem hostem. (Some editors read aesa/ona for efiileum, Plin. 

 N. H. x. 9.) 



'AKAAAN0I'!* eidos opveov piKpov, Suid. Vide S.W. &<avBis, dica^uMis. 



Ar. Pax IO78 rj Koobcov dicaXavOls (Schol. XaXov yap to C? 0,/ ) e7T€iyopevi] 



TvcpXa tLktci (cf. Paroemiogr. ed. Gaisf., p. 69). Associated with Artemis, 

 Ar. A v. 871. One of the nine Emathidae, daughters of Pieros, was 

 metamorphosed into the bird aKaXavdis, Nicander ap. Anton. Lib. 

 Met. ix. 



'AKANGl'l. A small bird, usually identified with the Linnet, Fringilla 

 cannabina, L., or the Goldfinch, F. carduelis, L., on the ground of 

 the more than doubtful derivation from ciicavda. The description 



