80 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KHH {continued). 



daXdaoiov napanXrjcriov xeXibovi' evioi be Xdpov avrbv Xeyovaiv, oi be aWviav. 

 Cf. Hesych. Krj£' 6 Xdpos Kara ^Arriova. Xeyerai be Ka\ Kavrjt;, rives kcu 

 atOviav ajrobiboaaiv' oi be Kencpov' oi be bvxpepovra dXXr'jXoov. 



Usually identified with the Gannet, Sula bassana, L. (vide s. v. 

 KarappdicTTjs), which does not occur, save by the rarest chance, in 

 Greece. Among other more than dubious hypotheses, Netolicka 

 (Naturh. aus Homer, p. 14), with whom Buchholz, Korner, and others 

 agree, suggests the Great Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus, L., whose 

 cry is keck, keck. (Cf. s.v. ktju£.) 



KHPY'AOI, s. KrjpvXos, s. KeipvXos (Ar. Av. 300), s. KrjpvWos (Eustath. ad 

 Horn.), s. KipvXos (Hesych.). A doubtful, perhaps foreign, word, 

 sometimes applied to the Halcyon, sometimes compared with it. 

 Sundevall's identification of KrjpvXos with a second species which 

 occurs in Greece, Alcedo (Ceryle) rudi's, the Smyrna Kingfisher, 

 is quite untenable, the poetical and mythical use of both KrjpvXos 

 and dXuvwv being opposed to so concrete an interpretation. 

 The suggested connexion with Lat. coeruleus (O. Keller, Lat. 

 Etym., 1893, P- J 5) * s m equal degree improbable. 



Alcman, 12 (20) /3dXe br'j, fidXe KrjpvXos eirjv, \ os T fVi Kvp,aros avdos ap! 

 dXKvovearai norrjrai \ vrjXees rjrop e\<av aXnropcpvpos e'iapos opvis. Cf. S. V. 

 dXiirop<f>upis. 



Mosch. iii. 41 ovbe rocrov yXavKols ev\ Kvpaai KrjpvXos qbev. Arist. H. A. 

 viii. 3, 593 d Trcpt rrjv BdXarrav Kal dXKvcov kcu KrjpvXos. Ael. V. 48 aXKvova 

 feat KrjpvXov TToOovvras d\XrjXa>v ndXai tcrpev. lb. vii. 1 7 KrjpvXos kcu oXkvgov 

 opavvpoi kcu aujujSiot, kcu yrjpq ye napeipevovs avrovs emOepevai ai aXwoves 

 nepidyovaiv eVt ra>v KaXovpAvcov peo-onrepvyicov. Cf. Antig. H. Mirab. 

 23 (27), where KrjpvXos is said to be the male kingfisher ; cf. also 

 Hesych. Kr/pvXos' aparjv opvis crvvovaiaariKos, rives be aXKvova : also 

 Tzetzes ad Lye. 387 ; Schol. Ar. Av., Schol. Theocr. vii. 57 ; Eustath. 

 ad Horn. II. i. 558. In Clearch. ap. Athen. x. 332 E, numbered among 

 rots opvtdas rovs Trapevbiao-ras KaXovpevovs, with rpoxiXos and 6 rfj KpeKi 

 7rpoo-ep,(pepr)s epcobws. Mentioned also by Archilochus, fr. 121 ap. Ael. 

 xii. 9 KiyxXos — Kivel be Kai ra ovpa'ia Trrepd, aanepovv 6 napa too 'Ap^iXo^cp 

 KrjpvXos. 



In Ar. Av. 299, usually written KeipvXos, as if from Keipco. Cf. infra 

 S. v. (nropyiXos. 



The names and attributes of KrjpvXos are undoubtedly akin to those of 

 Keipis or Ciris ; and it is interesting to note that, according to Hesy- 

 chius, the name Keipis applies either to a hawk or to the Halcyon. 

 I would place the legend of dXKvatv and KrjpvXos side by side with the 

 astronomic parable of Haliaetus and Ciris. Vide s. vv. dXideTOs, Ktpis. 



