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KPA'M BATON • IktIvos to (Sou, Hesych. 



KPAYro'l. A Woodpecker. dpvoKoXanTov ei8os, Hesych. : who has 

 also Kpavyov' nows opuis. Von Edlinger cites Lith. kraki: cf. 



Kpd£a>. 



KPE'=, also K€pKds (Hesych.). A very doubtful bird, usually identified, 

 by Sundevall and others, with the Corn-crake or Land-rail, 

 Rallus crex, L., Crex pratenszs, auctt. = opTuyojAYiTpa = k u'xpap.os. 

 The name is lost in Mod. Gk. 



Herod, ii. 76, compared in size with the Ibis. 



Ar. Av. 1 138 tovtovs b' ervKi£op ai tcpeices to'is pvyxeo-iv. Schol. in Ar. 

 (Suid.) opveov dvo-oiwvKTTOv toIs yapovaiv, o£v ndw to pvyxos Kal npioveobes 

 e\ovl cf. Hesych. opveov ti, 6 rots yapovo-iv ol<avL(eTai' racro-fTai be Kal 

 M rpoxov [cf. iuy|]. As a bird of evil omen to the newly married, 

 cf. Euphor. 4 (quoted by Tzetzes) ov 8 fjeio-e ydpov Kanbv ix66pt9ot Kpe$, 

 and Lycophr. 513, where Helen is bvodpnayos *pe£. A messenger of 

 Athene, Porph. De Abst. iii. 5. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b icpe£ noXepios iXew kcu KorriXpco Kal ^XopiWi . . . 

 Kal yap avrovs ^Xdnrei Kal ra reKva avrcov. In Ael. iv. 5 {loc dub.) 

 Kpe£ is hostile to aWvia: also Phile, De An. Pr. 681, with epithet 

 jSpaSwrrepoff. Arist. H. A. ix. 17, 6l6 b f] be *pe£ to pev rjdos /xa^t/xo?, 

 rr)v be bidvoiav evpr)\avos npos tov ftiov, aWcos be KaKonorpos opvis. Arist. 

 De Part. iv. 12, 695, mentioned among the long-legged birds with 

 a short hind-toe. 



icpe'£ has been identified, on account of its pugnacity, with the Ruff, 

 Machetes pugnax, L.; but the Ruffs fight with one another (cf. p.ip.vw), 

 and, moreover, all the accounts of mutual hostilities between birds are 

 unreliable, and in the main mythological. From the size, and the 

 rudimentary hind-toe, the Black-winged Stilt, Himantopus rujipes, 

 Bechst. was suggested first by Belon : its use by Herodotus as 

 a standard of comparison with the Ibis is somewhat in favour of this 

 bird, which is common in Egypt. The identification with the Corn-crake 

 rests mainly on the assumption that the name is onomatopoeic. The 

 facts that the Scholiasts knew little or nothing about the bird, and 

 that the name is lost in Mod. Gk., suggest that the word was perhaps 

 an exotic, and that its meaning was early lost. 



KPITH'- 17 yAa{)£, Hesych. 



KPl'EX* f] xe\i8a>i/, Hesych. Doubtless corrupt : Meineke suggests 

 *pi[Soj/]e9; or *pi[V]«, Kpi£. 



KY'ANOI. Probably the Wall- Creeper, Tichodroma muraria, L. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 21, 617 pd\iara iv Nicrvpa \ev 2/cypo), Ael.] e'cri, 

 TroieiYai §' eVi tcov nerpcov ras biarpifids' to be peyeOos Korrvcpov p.ev eXdrraiV, 



