34 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



ANOnAIA {continued). 



Realien, p. 126, the Swallow, from its passing in and out through the 

 smoke-hole, napa to 8iaTpi(3eiv ev rats onals (Herodian). Cf. Hesych. 

 dvonala' opveov ovopa Ka\ a'Sos, t) ava ttjv onrjv rrjs dvpas, rj ava Ttjv dvpida, 



fj d(pavrjs (MS. a<pa>vos). See also Ameis in loc, Doederlein, Horn. 

 Gloss, &c. 



Bochart, Hieroz. ii. 337, suggests (not for the first time, for the state- 

 ment is made in early Hebrew dictionaries) a connexion with Hebr. HSJX 

 anafthah, which he supposed to be a species of eagle, partly perhaps 

 to make it fit in with the interpretation, common in his time, of dvonala. 

 But according to Lewysohn (Zool. d. Talmuds, p. 109), with whom 

 Tristram agrees, anaphah is rightly translated Heron (Lev. xi. 19), 

 which seems to me to lend support to the hypothesis that dvonala 

 is identical with it. Cf. epwdios, II. x. 274. 



"AN TAP* dtros, vno Tvpprjvav, Hesych. 



'ANTl'tpYXOI* ovtws Ka\ovvrai oi Me'p.voves opviBes (q. V.), Hesych. 



'AnA^O'l- enoty to opveov, Hesych. (Probably a Macedonian word, 

 Schmidt in Hesych. ; or more likely Egyptian, vide infra, s. v. 



€TTO\|f). 



"AHOYX. A bird of the swallow kind. Probably including the Swift, 

 Cypselus apus, L., and Hirundo rupestris, Scop., the Cliff 

 Martin; Mod. Gk. nerpoxeXiSovi. Also for KityeXo?, the Sand 

 Martin. 



Arist. H. A. i. I, 487 b opvis KaKonovs (cf. Plin. xi. 47), evnrepos. 

 (faaiverai 6 p.ev anovs ndaav cbpav, rj de 8penav\s orav vag tov Bepovs. lb. ix. 

 30, 618 oi £' anodes, ovs KaXoiio-i rives kv-^cXovs op.0101 rals ^eXtSdo-tj/ elaiv' 

 ov yap pabiov diayvaivai npbs ttjv ^eXiSova, nXrjv t<u rf}v Kvt]p,r)V e^eiv $ao~elav. 

 veorrevovcriv iv Kv^/eXiaiv in nrjXov nenXao-pevais p.aicpa.ls, oo~ov elcrbvaiv 

 e\ovo-ais' ev crreyvw be noielrai ras veornas vno nerpais Ka\ anrj\aiois, coot* 

 Ka\ to. Qrjpia koi rovs dv6pa>novs dia(pevyeiv. Cf. Plin. x. 39 (55) his quies 

 nisi in nido nulla, &c. 



The name is traditionally identified with the Swift, Cypselus apus, 

 L. As regards the former passage (which is doubtfully authentic) 

 it appears that H. rupestris is the only bird of the Swallow kind 

 which is a permanent resident in Greece (Kriiper p. 255, &c), though 

 Erhard (p. 46) says that Swifts winter in the Cyclades. The second 

 passage is corrupt, and contains two different accounts of the nest 

 (cf. Sundevall p. 130). H. rupestris builds solitarily, on the face of 

 high cliffs (vno nerpais) (Kriiper, 1. c). The other account (ev Kv\lreXiaiv 

 fxa<pals) seems to refer to the Sand Martin, vide s.v. Kui|/e\os. Sundevall 



