36 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



API1H {continued). 



veoTTia to. twv aXeKTopidav, and Sundevall makes Harpe the Black Kite, 

 Milvus ater, or M. parasiticus. Aubert and Wimmer suspect apnr] to 

 be a large Gull (Larus). For other hypotheses, vide Buchholz p. 137. 



'AIBHNOl'- opviOfs, Hesych. Possibly akin to o-mvo?. 



"AIIAON- ipvMv, Hesych. Heb. nTOH, chasidah, the Stork. Cf. 

 Boch. Hieroz. ii. 321-326. 



'AZKA'AA+OZ. An unknown bird, mentioned Arist. H. A. ii. 12 as 

 possessing colic coeca (dnocpvddas). 



Usually translated Owl, from the story of the Metamorphosis of 

 Ascalaphus, Ovid, Met. v. 539 Foedaque Jit volucris, venturi nuncia 

 luctus, Ignavus bubo, dirum 7nortalibus omen. Cf. Apollodor. ii. p. 107 

 'AaicdXacpov ouv ArjpTjT^p inoirjo-ev oirovi Serv. ad Aen. iv. 462. The mys- 

 tical aspect of the story is briefly indicated by Creuzer, Symbolik, iv. 

 378. [Quaenam sit avis, neque ex Aristotele neque ex Plinio aut ex 

 Aeliano deprehendere potuimus. Sed Ovidius inter fabulas ostendit 

 esse bubonis speciem : Scaliger in Arist] 



'AIKAAft'nAI. (a<7ic6\oTra9, Arist. MS. O). Probably identical with 

 (TKoXonag, q. v. The Woodcock, Scolopax rusiicola. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 26, 617 b ev Tols Kiprois okio-nerai epiceo-iP, to peyeOos 

 Zcrov dXeKTopis, to pvy^os paicpov, to xpeopa opoiov aTTayrjvi' rpe^fi 8e Ta\v. 



The Woodcock according to v. d. Miihle and Lindermayer is very 

 abundant in Greece in November. Aubert and Wimmer Tather identify 

 aarKaka>nas with the Curlew. 



'AITEPI'AI. 



I. An Eagle = xp v(T ™ to s, Ael. ii. 39. In Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 

 620, mentioned as yivos Up&cw, and usually identified with the 

 Goshawk. 



Cf. Scaliger in Arist. p. 249 : ao-Tepiav vertit Theodosius stellaretn . . . 

 dtrrrpinp igitur puto nostrum asturem : ut enim punctis quibusdam 

 tanquam stellis totus pictus in pectore. This identification, though 

 adopted by Sundevall, is inacceptable. durepias is said to be the 

 largest of the eagles, and to feed on fawns, cranes, and in Crete, bulls ; 

 like xpvo-deTos it seems to be used not of the actual bird but as a symbol, 

 probably astronomical. 



II. A bird of the Heron kind, supposed, for a similar and equally 

 unsatisfactory reason, to be the Bittern, Ardea stellans, L. 



It is only mentioned in connexion with an Egyptian myth, probably 

 relating to the Stork ; and the name itself is in all probability foreign 

 and corrupt (cf. ao-iSoy). 



