KIPK02— KIXAH 85 



KIZIA {continued). 



be Tt]V veoTTiav eVi to>v bepbpcop e\ Tpi\a>v /cat epiW I makes a store of 

 acorns, orap cV v-noX'ur(oo~ip ai (BdXapoi, airoKpimTovaa rapieverai. lb. ix. 20, 

 617 a, is the size of l£o(36pos, the Missel-Thrush. 



Its garrulity: Alexid. Thras. 1 (3, 420 Mein.) XaXiorepai/ ov Kirravy 

 ovt' drjdov ovre rpvyova\ Lye. 1319 rrjv XdXrjOpop Kio~<rap : and imitative 

 faculty, Ael. vi. 19, Plut. De Sol. Anim. p. 973 C, Dion. De Avib. i. 18, 

 Plin. x. 42 (59), Porph. De Abst. iii. 4; hence Kio-cra/3t£a>, Poll. v. 90. How 

 it is caught with a springe and bait of olive, Dion. De Avib. iii. 18. 

 Mentioned also in frr. Antiph. 3. 145, Anaxand. 3. 185, Mnesim. 3. 

 570 (Meineke). According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. 9, one of the 

 Emathides, daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird Kicraa ; 

 cf. Ovid, Met. v. 294, 663 ; Mart. Ep. xiv. 76 ; Pers. Prol.; Plin. x. 33. 



Sundevall supposes the Magpie (which is very much rarer in Greece 

 than the Jay) to have been meant, but the description tallies much 

 better with the Jay, which still retains the name. The Magpie is now 

 called KupcLKa^a (Heldr.). In Italian, gazza, checa, cecca, pica, &c, 

 apply both to the Magpie and to the Jay, as very possibly Kio-aa also 

 did in Greek. Pliny (x. 29) gives an accurate account of the Magpie, 

 describing it as a variety of pica of recent advent to the neighbourhood 

 of Rome. 



KI'IIIPII, Suid., Kio-ipkis, Hesych. An unknown bird. 

 Kl'XAH. Dor. kix^M (Ar. Nub. 339, Epicharm. in Athen. ii. 64 f (68)). 

 A Thrush: the generic term including IXids s. iXXds, i£o|36pos, 



Tpixds, q. v. The root appears in Russ. kwickzol, a thrush, 



with which ouzel is perhaps cognate. Mod. Gk. t^Acc. Cf. 



also ix^ a » i°xXa. 



Mentioned in Od. xxii. 468 /c/^Xat Tavvdinrepoi. Homer is said to 

 have received a present of ki'xA«i for reciting a certain poem, hence 

 called 'EmiaxXLdes: Menaech. ap. Athen. ii. 65 b. 



Description.— Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, ix. 22, 617 b, is as large 

 as nvyapyos, and a little larger than paXaKOKpapevs. lb. ix. 49 B. 632 b 

 fi€Ta|3aXXft be Ka\ f) kIxXtj to xpcofia* tov pev yap ^ei/Liwvoff yj^apd, tov be 

 Bepovs nouciXa ra 7rept tov avxeva la-^et' ttjv pevroi (pcovi)u ovbev pero- 

 pdXXei. Cf. Ael. xii. 28. This would suggest a confusion of species : 

 the more variegated birds being Fieldfares and Redwings ; the latter 

 are said to occur in large flocks in Spring (v. d. Muhle), though all 

 alike have departed by Summer. Its song alluded to, Ar. Ach. 11 16 

 TTorepop aKpibes rjbiop eo~TiP, rj Ki^Xai ; Ar. Pax 53 1 > &C. 



Westing. — Builds in a spray of myrtle, OdXXop pvpplprjs, or places one 

 in the nest for a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile, De An. 723, Geopon. xv. 1, 19, 

 Anatol. p. 298 : cf. Fab. Aes. 194. A different account, Arist. H. A. 

 vi. I, 559 a ^ 8* KixXai veoTTiap pep noiovprai axmep ai xcXiSoycs ex. tttjXov 



