90 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOAOIOI {continued). 



o-rjp.elov avxpov ko.1 dqbopias elcrlv, Arist. fr. 240, 1 522. A sign of rain, 

 (pcuvouevoi dyeXrjbd kcu lpr)Keo-o~iv ofxoiov | (p6ey^dp.evoi } Arat. Ph. 965 ; cf. ib. 

 970. Kopai; be av Kopavrj kcu koXoios beiXrjs oyjrias el cpBeyyoivro x (l t JL ^ V0 ^ 

 eQ~eo~8ai Ttva itntotfpiap bibdo~Kovo~i' KoXoiol be lepaKi^ovres, kcu nerouevoL nrj 

 fiev dvcorepco 7rJ) be Kara>Tep(o f Kpv/xov kcu verov br)Xovai, Arist. ap. Ael. vii. 7 ; 

 cf. Theophr. De Sign. vi. 1 ; Arat. 1023, 1026 ; Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 34 

 pluviae graculus auctor aquae ; Lucret. v. 1082. 



In augury, frequent. Ar. Av. 50 x<u koXoios ovtoctX ava> Kexr\vev : cf. 

 W. H. Thompson's note on Plat. Phaed. 249 D. 



How the Jackdaws, destroying the grasshoppers' eggs, are cherished 

 by the Thessalians, Illyrians, and Lemnians, Ael. iii. 12, Plin. xi. 29. 

 How the Veneti bribe the Jackdaws to spare their crops, and how 

 the Daws respect the compact, Ael. xvii. 16, Antig. Hist. Mir. 173 (189), 

 Arist. De Mirab. ii. 9, 841 b. On the construction of scare-crows, cf. 

 Geopon. xiv. 25. 



Story of a Jackdaw enamoured of a certain youth, Ael. i. 6, xii. yj. 

 The Jackdaw in medicine, Plin. xxix. (6) 36, xxx. (11) 30, &c. Uses 

 laurel as a remedy, Plin. viii. 27. 



Fables. — The Daws and the Husbandman, Babr. xxxiii. The Daw 

 in borrowed plumes, ib. lxxii : also koXoios kcu y\av%, in Fab. Aes. ed. 

 Halm, 200 ; Phaedr. i. 3 ; cf. Luc. Apol. 4 koXoios dXXorpiois irrepoh 

 dydXXerai : Hor. Ep. i. 3. 19, 20 moveat cornicula risum, Furtivis nudata 

 coloribus. See also Aes. Fab. 201, 202, 398. 



Proverb. — koXoios napd koXolov l£dpei, Arist. Rhet. i. II, 1371b; cf. 

 Nic. Eth. viii. 2, 11 55, &c. KaK&v navapio-Te koXoi&v, Lucian, Fugit. 30 

 (3, 382). Of chatterers, 7ro\Xoi yap fiUm acpe KaraKptd^ovcn. KoXoioi, Ar. 

 Eq. 1020. 



KOAOIO'I, p. The Little Cormorant. Phalacrocorax pygmaeus, 



Bonap.; vide s. v. Kcn-appdicnqs. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b eon be kiu <iXXo yevos koXoloov irepX rrjv Avbiav 

 /cat Qpvyiav, b areyavonovv early. Is friendly with Xdpos (6 kolX. koXoios), 

 Ael. v. 48. 



Sundevall ingeniously suggests the above interpretation, the large or 

 Common Cormorant, ' corvo marino,' being known as Kopat- (Arist. 

 H. A. viii. 3, 593 b). Ar. Ach. 875 (883) vdo-aas, koXolovs, drraycis, <paXa- 

 pibas, &c, is quoted by Athen. ix. 395 E as a list of water-birds. Cf. s.v. 

 Kopoji'T) r\ OaXdcrcrios. 

 KOAOr<t>PYE' Tavaypcuos dXeKTpvwp, Hesych. 



KOAOKTPYfl'N. In Hesych., supposed to be based on an ancient 



error in MS. Ravenn. of Ar. Ran. 935, for mXeKTpvova. 

 KOAYMBI'I, s. KoXvpfios (Ar. Ach.), KoXvfifids (Athen. 395 e, Anton. Lib.). 

 A water-bird ; especially a Grebe. 



