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HEPOnOI {continued). 



transformed into the bird rjepoiros, bs 'in vvv tIktci p.(v vnb y^?, aU\ 8e 



'HTKANO'l- 6 dkeKTpvoov, Hesych. Cf. klkkos: forte kIkkciv, Schmidt. 



'HMIO'NION* opvis iroios, Hesych. 



'HPIIA'AnirH* dpveov ti etdos, Hesych. Also epio-akniyg, Callim. Schol. 

 ad Ar. Av. 884. 



©EO'KPONOI. A fabulous bird. 



Dion. De Av. ii. 15 els ra>v dp,(pi(3i(dv dpvl8a>v earl Kai 6 Oeoicpovos, bs e£ 

 derav elvai vodos Kai UpaKoav marei/crai, k.t.X. 



OPA'E. A water-bird, mentioned with bvrlvos and KoXvpfios, Dion. De 

 Avib. ii. 13, iii. 24, q. v. 



©PAYni'2. (dXvms in Cod. Med. O. Spams, eXenis also occur. 

 Perhaps identical with yXdms, ypdms, Hesych.) An unknown 

 species of Finch. Cf. J. G. Schneider in Arist. 1. c. 

 Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis di<avdo(pdyos, mentioned with duavdis 

 and xP V0 ~°f Ji *} T P ls ' 

 ©GO'l* opvis voids, Hesych. 



"IBINOI- deros, Hesych. 



"IBI2, s. tpis; also t/3u|, Hesych., Suid. The Ibis. 



An Egyptian word, bahu : cf. hib or hip in copt. vers. Lev. xi. 17 (for 

 tfltW A. V. great owl\ cf. Is. xxxiv. 11 ; tr. ibis in LXX and Vulg.) ; 

 vide Scholtzii Lex. Aegypt., Oxon. 1775, p. 155. Another Egyptian 

 name leheras still survives as Arab, el hareiz, and is preserved in the 

 following fragment: Albert. Magn. vi. p. 255 Avis autem, quae ab 

 incolis Aegypti secundum Aristotelem ieheras (s. leheras) vocatur, et 

 habet duos modos, et unus illorum est albus et alius est niger. 

 Cf. Gesner, iii. p. 546 Avis (inquit Albertus, de ibide sentiens) quae 

 ab Aegyptiis secundum Aristotelem leheras (s. ieheras) dicitur, secun- 

 dum Avicennam Caseuz vocatur. Cf. Belletete, Annot. ad op. Savigny 

 (infra cit.), p. 39. 



Of the two species of Ibis, the White or Sacred Ibis, which was 

 first recognized by Bruce (Travels in Abyss, v. p. 173, 1790) is Ta?i- 

 talus aethiopicus, Latham, Niwienius Ibis, Savigny, or Ibis religiosa, 

 Cuv. : the Abou Hannes or Father John of the Abyssinians (Bruce), and 

 Abou Mengel or Father Sickle-bill of the fellaheen. The Sacred Ibis 

 still regularly visits Lower Egypt at the time of the inundation, coming 

 from Nubia (cf. Newton, Diet, of Birds, s. v.). Before the time of 

 Bruce's discovery, the name had been variously assigned to several 



