52 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



APYOKOAAnTHI {continued). 

 with its close ally, P. canus ; (c, d) the Greater and Lesser Spotted 

 Woodpeckers, P. major and minor. The Green Woodpecker is 

 described under the name KeXeo'y, and accordingly Sundevall and 

 others make the remaining two of the three Aristotelian varieties 

 to be the Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers respectively. 

 But as P. viridis, whether it had another name or not, would certainly 

 be still classed as bpvoKokdirT^, it is better to take it as the middle- 

 sized sort, uniting the Greater and Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers as 

 the last and least variety. 



The Woodpecker is not in Greek, as it is in Latin (e. g. Ov. Met. xiv. 

 321, F. iii. 37, 54, Virg. Aen. vii. 191, Plin. x. 18 (20), Plut. Q. Rom. xxi. 

 268 F, Romulus iv; Aug. Civ. Dei, xiii. 15), a bird of great mythological 

 importance, though the Dryopes were probably, like the descendants of 

 Picus, a Woodpecker-tribe. It figures in the oriental Samir-legend 

 (vide s. v. !tto\|/) in Ael. i. 45 as making its nest in a tree, and, by 

 virtue of a certain herb, removing a stone with which one shall have 

 blocked up the entrance ; cf. Plin. x. (18) 20, xxv. 5 ; Plut. p. 269 ; 

 Dion. De Avib. i. 14 ; and is accordingly spoken of as a rival power 

 to eiro-^r in Ar. Av. 480. Cf. Alb. Magnus, De Mirab. 1601, p. 225. See 

 also Baring-Gould, Myths of the Middle Ages, p. 397. The Woodpecker 

 and the Hoopoe come into relation also in the version of the Tereus- 

 myth given by Baios ap. Anton. Lib. Met. 11, where the brother of 

 Aedon is transformed into the bird eiroyjr, and her husband into neXeicav. 



APY'CW. A Woodpecker = dpvoKoXdnTrjs, Ar. Av. 304. 



AY'nTHX. A diving bird, identical with dtdvia (q. v.), tvioi navrjices. 

 Etym. M. 



Callim. 167, ap. Etym. M. bvnrai t e£ akbs epxo^voi ; with which cf. 

 Arat. 914, s. v. epwSios. Lye. 73 arevoi <re, irdrpa, Kai rd<povs 'ArXavridos, 

 Svtttov KeXapos. Applied to a professional diver or sponge-fisher in 

 Opp. Hal. ii. 436, and possibly also, therefore, in the preceding reference. 

 Cf. apveuTr\p. 



AYTfNOI. An unknown water-bird. Dion. De Avib. ii. 13, iii. 24. 



EfAAAl'X, also I8a\ls. opvisnoios, Hesych. 



"EAAIOX s. e\ai($s. According to Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ii. 65 B 

 a kind of alyiQa\6s or titmouse, called by some nvpplas (MS. 



Triplets), avKaWs 8' \oti aXlcKerau orav aKp.a£rj ra (tvko.. Conj. in Anth. 



Pal. vii. 199 ed. Mackail xi. 13 cpiX eXme. Probably one of the 

 many Warblers which frequent the olive-gardens, e.g. Salicaria 

 olivetorum, Strickl., and £\ elaeica, Linderm. (v. Lindermayer, 

 pp. 88-92). 



