KOKKY= - KOAOIOX 89 



KOKKYH {continued). 



Hoopoe, vide s. vv. eiroij/, Kouicou<f>a ; for the relations between the 

 Cuckoo and the Hoopoe, Der Kuckuk und sein Kiister, v. Grimm, 1. c. 

 On the mythology of the Cuckoo, see also (int. al.) Von Mannhardt, 

 Zeitsch. f. d. Myth. iii. pp. 209-298 ; Hardy, Pop. Hist, of the Cuckoo, 

 Folk-lore Record, pt. ii ; Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 152. 



How the Amphisbaena, alone among serpents, appears before the. 

 Cuckoo is heard, i.e. in early spring, Plin. xxx. (10) 25; a magic 

 remedy for fleas, Plin. I.e.; a Cuckoo in a hare-skin, a remedy for 

 sleeplessness, Plin. xxx. (15) 48; the Cuckoo as food, Plin. x. 9; cf. 

 Arist. H. A. vi. 7, 564 (spurious passage). 



KO'AAPIX. Vide S. V. icdXapis. 



KOAAYPl'flN, s. KopvWlayv, Hesych. An undetermined bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b ra avra e'aOlei tco Korrvcfxo . . . dXicrKerai 8e 

 Kara ^et/iaii'a pdXiara. Is of a size with Korrvcpos, napdaXos, paXaKonpapevs, 

 xXcopi'ap. 



Belon's unsupported hypothesis of the Shrike (Observ. ii. 98) is 

 handed down in the modern scientific name of Lanius collurio. 

 Buffon, quoted by Camus, ii. p. 238, says (Hist. Des Ois. ii. p. 70) that 

 in Mod. Gk. the Shrike is called KoXXvplap; there is no recent 

 evidence of this. Gloger suggests with more probability, Turdus 

 pilaris, L., the Fieldfare. 



KOAOIO'X, a. The Jackdaw. Corvus monedula, L. Root very doubtful. 



Mod. Gk. koXoios, KaXoiaicovda. Hesych. koXoios' [oppeop] 6 ov rdfta 



opdrai iv 'AXe£ap8peia : also, koXoioi' o~KO)7res, fiuepai Kopcopcu. 



II. xvi. 583 ; xvii. 755 tyapSip pe<pos epxerai rje koXolcov, \ ov\op KacKrjyovTes. 

 In regard to the Jackdaw's cry, cf. Pind. N. 3, 143 (78) koXoioI Kpayirai : 

 Antip. Sid. 47 koXolcov Kpaypos : J. Poll. vi. 13 koXoiovs icXwfcip : hence 

 the verb KoXoida, Poll. v. 89. 



Frequent in Aristophanes; Av. passim, Ach. 875, Vesp. 129, Eq. 

 1020, &c. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b e?8r) rpia' Kopaiuas, Xukos, PwfAoXoxos, q. v. 

 lb. ii. I7j 5°9 T ° Trpos T rj V KoiXiav retvov e^ft evpv ko.1 nXarv. Its claws 

 are weaker than those of 8pvoKoXdnTr]s, ib. ix. 9, 614 (here Schneider, 

 followed by Sundevall, would read for koXoi&p, koXlS>p s. KeXe&p). De 

 Gen. iii. 6, 756 b j; tois pvyx€(TL els aXXrjXa Koipa>pia drjXop em tg>p ridaaevo- 

 pepcap KoXoiatp. 



How the Jackdaw, a victim to sociality, is caught with a dish of oil, 

 into which, looking at his own reflection, he falls ; Ael. iv. 30, 

 Athen. ix. 393 b, Dion. De Avib. iii. 19. Caught also with springes 

 baited with an olive, Dion. ib. iii. 18. 



A weather-prophet, oi koXoioI e< tq>p PTjaoip irerop-epoi rols yeoapyols 



