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KATAPPAKTHI {continued). 



169. In Aristotle, said to be a sea-bird, but not web-footed: mentioned 

 as opvis nordpios, Aristoph. H. A. Epit. i. 24, and daXdo-o-ios, ib. i. 23. 



Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 5°9 ToV o-rdpaxov e^ei evpvv koi nXarvv oXov. Ib. ix. 

 12, 615 opvis o~x l £®' 1TOVS ' £rj pev 7rep\ BdXaTrav^ orav de KaBrj avTov (is to 

 (Sadv, pevei \povov ovk eXdrrova rj ocrov nXedpov dieXdoi tis' eari 8' eXarrou 

 upaKos. From this account and from its mention in ii. 17, between 

 to. o~xiCdiroba (con's) and ra aTeyavonoda (Xdpos), Aubert and Wimmer 

 identify KarappaKTrjs with Podiceps auritus, the Eared Grebe, Mod. Gk. 

 KapanaraiKLop (Erh. p. 48) ; Sundevall, on the other hand, with the Little 

 Cormorant, Phalacrocorax or Graculus pygmaeus (vide koXoios, 0). 

 Neither of these birds, however, suggests by its habits the name 

 KarappdKTTjs : and neither is white in colour, so that they at least conflict 

 with the following excerpt from Dion. De Avib. ii. 2 coy 01 tcov Xdpw eXda- 

 o~oves, lo~x v P os &* Kal T h v XP° av Xcvko?, koi toIs tos (pdcrcras dvaipovaiv lepa£i 

 7rpoo~6p,oios . . . (Is tov novTov ota ir'ntTM oicrerai . . . tois aKoneXois Kal toIs 

 aiyiaXols e(pi(dvei. Further, a fabulous account of the breeding-habits. 

 According to the same author (iii. 22) oavio-iv eiKovas eiriypd^avres IxBvav 

 Brjpaxri tovs KarappaKTas' o~vv oppfj yap cos eir'i Tiva KUTanTavres i)(6vv 

 7repippr)yvvvTai rais o~avicri Kai dictfpddpovrai. These accounts are usually 

 applied to the Gannet or Solan Goose, Sula dassuna (cf. Oedmann, Act. 

 Acad. Stockh., vii. 1786, Schneid. in Arist. vol. ii. p. 88) ; but the size 

 is incompatible with such an identification, and the bird is not a native 

 of Greece. The account in Plin. x. (44) 51 is wholly fabulous, and 

 includes the story of the Birds of Diomede, ot Karapdo-aovaiv els ras 

 tu>v (Sapfidpav necpaXds, Arist. De Mirab. 79, 836 a ; cf. Ael. i. 1, and 

 vide s. v. IpwcHos. 



Gesner, who is followed in modern ornithological nomenclature and 

 by the lexicographers, identified KarappdKrrjs with the Skua, Lestris 

 catarrhactes, L., a bird which does not occur in the Mediterranean. 



KATPEY'l. An unknown or mystical bird. 



Cleitarch. fr. 18, ap. Ael. xvii. 23 peyedos npos tov Taoav' to. de a<pa 

 tu>v nrepcov eoiKe o~papdyda> Kai opcov pev aXXas, ovk oidas olovs 6(f)daX- 

 p.ovs (X eL ' c ' &* f k °~* anidoi, £pds Kivvd(3apiv to oppa, k.t.X. Cf. Strabo, 

 XV. i. 69. Nonn. Dion. xxvi. 206 mrpevs §' eaaopevoio Trpo6eo~iriC(i x^ (TLV 

 opfipov I £av6o(pvr)s Xiyvcpwvos' diro (3Xe(pdpeov 8e ol aiyXrj | irepireTai, 6p- 

 6pivr\ai ftoXals dvTipponos rjovs. | noXXaKi 8' r)vep6(VT0S vnep devdpoio 

 Xiyaivonv, \ avvOpovos a>pia>vos dvenXeKe ye'iTOva poXnrjV \ (poiviKeais TTTepv- 

 yeacri KeKaapevos' rj rdxa (pairjs, \ peXnopevov KaTpr/os eoaiov vpvov aKova>v, | 

 opBpiov aloXobeipov drjftova Kcopov i)(paiveiv. 



The description of the plumage in Aelian has suggested to some 

 commentators the Manal or Impeyan Pheasant, Lophopus impeyanus 

 (cf. Val. Ball, Ind. Antiq., xiv. 305, 1885), which bird is very possibly 



