70 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



I MAI {continued'). 

 are transferred to IXXds. Both the Redwing and the Fieldfare are 

 now winter-migrants in Greece, and not very common (Kriiper, Linder- 

 mayer, Sec). The word was probably an old or dialectic form, meaning 

 simply thrush, to which it was sought to apply a specific meaning 

 in Aristotle. 



'IMANTO'nOYI. A wading-bird ; the name is now allotted to the 

 Stilt. 



Dion. De Avib. ii. 9 ax 5' Ip-avTotzobes XenTots p.ev crKeXecn ^pcoirai, fcai 

 e^ovo-i rrjv 7rpoo-r)yopiav ck tovtov. kclivov 5' eV avratv ianv, on rrjv Karwdev 

 yevvv Clowes TreTrrjyvlav, \xovov Kivovai rfjv avcodev. Cf. Plin. x. 47 (64). 



'INAIKO'I "OPNII. The Phoenix (q. v.), Aristid. ii. p. 107 ; cf. Creuzer, 

 Symbolik, ii. p. 167. 



"INYE* opvcov ti, a> xpaiirai al (f)app.ciKi8es, Hesych. Vide S. V. tuy§. 



'lEOBO'POX, or Igocpdyos, Athen. 65 a (l£os = viscum, mistletoe, cf. 

 Ital. viscada, the Missel-lhmsh). 



The Missel-thrush, Turdus vtscivorus, L. Mod. Gr. Kipiaplva (v. d. 

 Miihle), SevhpoTo-lxka on Parnassus, Kvpa Elprjm] in Eurytania, 

 fiowoTo-ixKa in Laconia (Heldreich). The only one of the true 

 thrushes resident in Greece throughout the year (Kriiper). 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 20, 617. Vide s. v. kixXt). 



'innAAEKTPYft'N* tov piyav dXeKTpvova, rj tov ypa(p6p.fvov ev toIs UepcriKois 

 7rfp«rrpd)/xacri. ypdfpovrai 8e olov ypvnes. evioi yinra, Hesych. 

 Cf. Ar. Ran. 932 (959), Pax II 77, Av. 800 tov £ov6bv ImraXeKTpvova : 

 cf. Aesch. Myrm. fr. 130, &c, &c. 



Note. — The epithet £ovdos is applied to various creatures, e. g. drj&eov, 

 dXuvoov, xeXiSooj/, pe\io-o-a y r«rr*£, all of which agree in being closely linked 

 with religious symbolism. The meaning of the adjective is quite un- 

 known. With the various conjectures of modern commentators cf. 

 Photius : £ovdov' Xcktov, enrakov, eXa(pp6v, xXcopdy, vypov, ^avdov, koXov, 

 ttvkvov, o£v } raxy. 01 be ttolklXov, eveiftes, diavyh. 



'innA'PION' opvcov noiov, 7rapanXr]o-iov xqvaXaTrciu, Hesych. 



"inilH, (j. iinra, s. iura, s. ittci). 6 ftpvotcoXayp; €0vik£>s, Hesych. The 

 root is supposed to be m, Lat. ic-o (Vanicek 82), cf. foos ; and 

 the word is taken to be identical with ttittw (q. v.) ; but the irra 

 suggests identity with aimr]. 



Doubtless identical also with nrnrj, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 21 km 

 io-nv dyaObs ovtos 6 opvis eVi Orjpav lovti. 



