38 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



ATTArAI {continued). 



be Kardypa(pos ra nepi to vcotov, Kepapeovs rrjv xP°av viroirvppifav paXXov. 

 Srjpeverai be vjto Kvvrjycov bid to fidpos Kai rfjv t£>v nrepcov (3paxvTr)Ta. (Cf. 

 Dion. De Avib. iii. IO.) i<rr\ be kovio-tikos, iroXvreKvos re Kai aneppnXoyos. 

 Schol. in Ar. Av. 250 6 array as 6 efywr/ r6v Xeip5)va rov MapaOcovos. ra 

 yap Xipvcobrj Ka\ eXeia ywpi'a KaraftoaKerai 6 arrayas. It is friendly with 

 the stag, Opp. Cyneg. ii. 404. 



Proverbs. — arrayas vovprjvico [atWpyerai], napoipia en\ r£>v kXcktuiv, 

 Suid. s. v. arrayas, Hesych. s. v. vovprjvLos, Schol. Ar. Av. 762. Cf. 

 Timon ap. Diog. L. ix. 16. 6, Paroem. Gr. i. p. 307, ii. pp. 16, 212 (Scaliger 

 in Prov. metricis). Ar. Vesp. 257 rov nrfXov coa-nep arrayas rvp&do-eis 

 fiahifav. Proverbial as a delicacy : Ar. YleXapyoh in Athen. 388b arrayas 

 rjbio-rov e\^eiv ev eruviKiois Kpeas. Phoenicid. 4. 509 Kovbev rju rovroov irpbs 

 drrayrjva avpfiaXuv rwv (3p<0pdr<ov. Martial, xiii. 61 Inter sapores fertur 

 alitum primus, Ionicarum gustus attagenarum. Cf. Ovid, F. vi. 175, Hon 

 Epod. ii. 54 ; Plin. x. 48 ; Apicius, De Re Coquin. vi. 3 ; Aul. Gell. 

 Noct. Att. vii. 16, &c. Mentioned also, Hippon. fr. ap. Athen. 1. c. 



The Francolin does not now occur in Greece or Italy, though it is 

 found in Crete, Cyprus, Sicily, Malta, and on the southern shores of the 

 Black Sea (Lindermayer p. 125). On this account, Sundevall and 

 others have disputed its identity with arrayas-, and have identified 

 the latter with various birds, especially Perdix cinerea, the Common 

 (or Northern) Partridge ; C. T. Newton, Cont. Rev. 1876, p. 92, taking 

 it to be Pterocles alchata, a species of Sand-grouse. The descriptions, 

 especially that of Alex. Myndius, point distinctly to the Francolin, 

 and even Lindermayer does not doubt that the name is to be so 

 interpreted, and that the bird was formerly abundant. The record by 

 Sibthorpe of the modern Greek name, which I cannot find in more 

 recent writers, suggests that the bird has only lately disappeared from 

 Greece. According to Danford (Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. p. 124) 

 it is fast disappearing in Asia Minor also : likewise in Cyprus (Guille- 

 mard, The Field, Sept. 1892). The general disappearance of the Quail 

 in recent years from England is a parallel case. 



BAl'BYKOI* ireXeKavos <&iXr)ras, ' Apepias [<5e] fiavfivicos, Hesych. For 



other readings, v. Steph. Thes. ii. coll. 40, 41, and Schmidt's 

 Hesych. i. pp. 352, 366. 



BAIH'O. An Egyptian name for a Hawk. 



Horap. i. 7 dvr\ ^vy^s 6 iepa£ raaxrtTtUf in rrjs rov ovoparos epprjvdas' 

 KaXelrai yap nap Alyvnrtois 6 lepa£, Ba'irjB. rovro be to ovopa biaipeOev, 

 tyvxhv o-rjpaivei Ka\ Kapbiav' eari yap r6 pev /3ai y^vxrj, to be f)d napbia' 17 8e 

 Kapbia Kar Alyvrrriovs yjfvxijs 7repi(3oXos, (bare o~r)paipeiv rfjv avvdeaiv rov 

 ovoparos, ' [ r r vxh v cyKapbiav' d(p y ov <a\ 6 lepa£ bid. to npos rrjv T^uy^i' o~vp- 



