88 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOKKYE {continued). 

 €vtikt€iv. See also Arist. De Gen. iii. i, 750, Ael. iii. 30, Theophr. Caus. 

 PI. ii. 18, 9, Dion. De Avib. i. 13, Plin. x. (9) 26, Phile, De An. Pr. 

 xxiv. 



A species that builds its own nest : Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 564 veorrevet 

 yevos tl aiircov Trapped kcu ev diroTopois ncTpais. [lb. vi. I, 559? k6kkv(- 

 probably for Korrvcpos], 



The Cuckoo is said by Kriiper (p. 184) to lay in Greece chiefly in 

 the nest of Sylvia orfthea, and also of the species of Saxicola. Coccystes 

 glandarius, the Great Spotted Cuckoo, which also occurs in Greece, 

 (Mod. Gk. Kpavos), lays in the nests of the Jackdaw, Magpie and Crow. 

 The repeated statement that k6kkv£ lays in the nest of (pdrra or (pd\jf is 

 inexplicable, unless such a statement be of foreign origin and refer 

 originally to some Oriental species ; a little light is perhaps thrown 

 upon the point by the circumstance that in certain Chinese legends 

 the Dove and the Cuckoo are confounded together: vide infra s. v. 

 Trepiorepd. This discrepancy deprives of all value the attempted 

 identifications of vnoXnts, wihch are based on its being some bird in 

 whose nest the Common Cuckoo habitually lays its egg ; see also 

 s. v. Trdinros. 



Migration. — Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 563 b (paiWreu eV oKiyov gp&w toO 

 6epovs, top be ^ei/zcai/a dcpavi&Tai. lb. ix. 49 B, 633 /xera/3dX\ei to XP®l ia 

 Kai Tjj (pcovrj [ov] cra<pr)vi{fi, orav pe\\rj d(pavi£eo~da.i' dcpavifcrai 8' vtto Kvva, 

 (pavepos de yiverai airo tov eapos dpgdpevos M^XP 1 KvvoS €7riro\rjs. Cf. Ael. 

 iii. 30 opdrai 6 kokkv£ rjpos inrapxopepov els dvaroXas Setpi'ou : Dion. De 

 Avib. i. 13 npoiTOS tq>p \om5>v 7TTr)vS)V f)p.lv to eap dyyeXXcov. 



Metamorphosis with the Hawk, Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 563 b, ix. 49 B, 633. 

 Cf. Plut. Arat. xxx (i. 1041 C) k<u KaQdivep t<o icfacvyt cprjo-iv AZotmtoc 

 iparSavTi tovs Xctttovs opviOas, on (pevyoiev avrov, elnelv e'/ceipovs a>s earoi 

 71 ore Upa£ (Aes. Fab. 198, ed. Halm). Cf. also Tzetz. ad Lye. 395. 

 See also supra, s. vv. eiroij/, Kipicos. 



Other Myths and Legends. — How Jupiter, in the shape of a Cuckoo, 

 sought Hera on Mount Thornax ; and how for this reason the cuckoo 

 figures on Hera's sceptre, Pausan. ii. 17, 4: cf. Schol. ad Theocr. 

 xv. 64 ; hence the mountain was called opos KoKtvyiov, Pausan. ii. 36, 1 ; 

 cf. Creuzer, Symb. iii. 248 ; cf. also the Teutonic Gauchsberg, Grimm, 

 D. Myth. p. 646, &c. 



From its propinquity to Sparta, and from the circumstance of the 

 Cuckoo having come in a cloud, Creuzer (1. c.) conjectures an allusion 

 to the same story in Ar. Av. 814; cf. also the weather prophecy in 

 Hesiod, 1. c. 



How the Cuckoo was king over Egypt and Phoenicia, Ar. Av. 504. 

 In these latter statements we have evidence of a confusion with the 



