g6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPYAAAOI (continued). 



A Lark (from Kopvs). Mod. Gk. KopvbaXos, o-KopSaXo?, ^a/Lio>ceX«St 

 (Belon), and in Santorini o-KovpiavX6s (Bike'las) qy. o--Kovpi[b]avX6s. 



Description. — Arist. H. A. ix. 13, 615 b 17 xXoapfr € '< TTlv r)^' lK0V xopvbos : 

 ix. 49 B, 633 b eniyeios, kovkttikos (i. e. bathes in the sand, like a hen) : 

 viii. 16, 600 a (paXel: vi. 1, 559 rux« ev rfj yfj, like the quail and the 

 partridge : ix. 8, 614 a enl bevbpov ov Ka6i(jn dXX' «ri tijs yrjs : ix. 29, 618 a 

 the cuckoo lays in its nest, which is placed on the ground, cf. Ael. 

 iii. 30. Is caught with bird-lime, Dion. De Avib. iii. 2, or by help of 

 the owl, ib. iii. 17. The crest referred to proverbially, Simon, fr. 68 

 (Plut, ii. 91 E, 809 A, V. Timol. xxxvii, 253 E) ndaaio-iv Kopvba\XLo~iv xph 

 X6(pov eyylveo-6ai. Arist. mentions neither the singing nor the soaring 

 of the lark ; but Theocr. vii. 141 has aeibov Kopvboi kcu aKavSibes, and 

 x. 5° eyeipopevco KopvbaXXa, surgente corydalo. The lark's "song was 

 apparently not appreciated : cf. Akiphr. Epist. 48 ov iy<b ttjs dxapio-Tov 

 (pcovrjs eveKa 6pd£>s Kopvbov [s. 6p0oKopvbov] KaXe'iaOaL npbs fjpav eKpiva : 

 Epigr. el KvKva bvvarai Kopvbos TrapanXrjcriov abeiv : and proverbs cited by 

 Schneider in Arist. vol. iv. p. 128. 



Varieties. — Arist. H. A. ix. 25, 617 b bvo yevrj, t] piv irepa rVtyttof ko.1 

 Xofpov c^ovo-a, rj §' erepa ayeXala Kai ov ajropas coanep eKeivrj, to pevTOi 

 Xpapa opoiov ttj erepa e^oucra, to be peyedos eXarrov' Kai X6(pov ovk ex*h 

 iaOierai be. The first species is the Crested Lark, Alauda cristata, L., 

 a permanent resident in Greece ; the other is the Common Lark, 

 Alauda arvensis, L., a winter migrant (v.d. Miihle, p. 36, Lindermayer, 

 p. 49). Both species receive the name KopvbaXos in Mod. Gk. (Erhard). 



Myth and Legend. —Arist. H. A. ix. 1, 610 (piXoi crxoivicov ko.1 

 Kopvbos Kai XijBvos Kai KeXeos. ix. I, 609 b 6 neXXos noXepel Kopvbco, ra 

 yap opa avTov icXfpTft. Ib. 609 noXepia 7roiKiXibes Kai Kopvbatves Kai 

 •nlivpa Kai xXoapeus'. Hostile also to aKavBvXXis, Phile, 683, Ael. iv. 5. 

 Uses the grass aypaxrris as an amulet or protection, Ael. i. 35, as 

 does the Hoopoe, Phile, 724 ; whence the proverb ev Kopvbov 

 koltt] arKoXif} KeKpvnrai aypoooTis, Geopon. xv. 1, 19. Uses, in like 

 manner, oak-leaves, Phile, 725. Is killed by mustard-seed, vdnvos 

 o-7repp,aTi, Phile, 662, Ael. vi. 46; cf. Galen, Theriac. i. 9, 943, &c, 

 Diosc. ii. 59, 796. How the lark led an Attic colony to Corone in 

 Messenia, and how Apollo, under the name Kopvbos, had a temple 

 and cured diseases there, Paus. iv. 34, 8. How the Lemnians honoured 

 the larks, ra T<av drreXu/3a)i> evpia-Kovras cod /cat Konrovras, Plut. ii. 380 F. 

 The story of the Lark and his Father, Aesop ap. Ar. Av. 471 Kopvbbv 

 Tvavrwv irpcoTrjv opvida yevecrOai, nporepav rrjs yrjs, Kaneira voaco rbv irarep 

 avrrjs dnoOvrjaKeiv' yrjv b' ovk elvai, tov be npoKeladai nepnTdtov' rrjv b* dno- 

 povaav vir dp,r)xavias top narep* avrijs ev Tff KecpaXfj KaTopv£ai. The same 



story told in great detail of the Hoopoe, e^o^ 'ivbiws (Ael. N. A. xvi. 5) 



