104 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KYANOI {continued). 



(firtfip fie fxfifav fiiKpco' fX€ya\o7rovs fie, Kai Tvpbs jas Trcrpa? TrpoaavaftaLva.. 

 kvcivovs oXos' to fie pvy\o$ e'^et Xeirrbv Kai fxaKpov, o-kcXt] fie fipaxfa rrj 

 7nVa> 7rapo/ioia. 



Ael. iv. 59 °pvts aTrdv8pa>iTos rbv rpoirov, fiicrSiv p.ev ras acrriKas fiia- 

 rpiftas Kai ras fear' oiKiav avXLo-eis, . . . ovre rjneipots (pikTjdel, ovre vrjtrois 

 dyaOdls' ^Kvpco fie, Kai ei tis TOiavrr) ere'pa ayav Xvirpa. Kai ciyovos KaX dvBpw- 

 7ra>v xqpevovcra, as ra TroXXd. 



The description in Aristotle accords very perfectly with the Wall- 

 Creeper (with which bird Gloger, Sundevall, and Heldreich identify it) 

 as regards habitat, size, feet, and bill, as does Aelian's account of its 

 solitary nature : but the bird is not kvuvovs oXos, nor is Aelian's account 

 of its habitat satisfactory. Aubert and Wimmer on the other hand, 

 following Belon, Gesner, and other older commentators, identify kvovos 

 with the Blue Thrush (Mod. Gk. nfTpoKoo-o-vcpos, cf. infra, s.v. Xcuos), 

 which agrees with the description in colour, but in little else, and is 

 a very common bird, whereas kvuvos is mentioned as scarce and local. 



KYKNI'AX. An Eagle, white like a swan, at Sipylus near Lake 

 Tantalus, Pausan. viii. 17, 3. 



That Pausanias is here in error is rendered the more probable by 

 the existence in Med. Gk. of the words r£vKveas, r&Kveas, Mod. Gk. 

 raiKvias, meaning a White Heron or Egret. 



The White Eagle of Pythagoras (Iambi. Vit. Pythag. § 132, Ael. 

 V. H. iv. 17) is supposed to be an allegory for the town of Croton, 

 on whose coins an eagle is represented ; cf. O. Keller, op. cit., pp. 238, 

 431. 

 KY'KNOX. (Hesych. has also ku8i>os.) Sk. fak-um, a bird ; Bopp, 

 ii. p. 379, cf. Fick in Herzenberger's Beitr. z. I. Gr. Spr., vii. 

 p. 94, 1883 : cf. the Gk. use of opvis for the constellation Cygnus 

 (Arat. 275, 599, 628, &c). 

 A Swan: Mod. Gk. kvkvos, vlaXpa (Heldr.), and in the Cyclades 

 KoOXoy (Erh.). The Mute Swan, Cygnus olor, Gm., breeds in 

 Greece; the Hooper or Whistling Swan, C. musicus, Bechst., 

 is probably only a winter migrant ; cf. Heldr., op. cit., p. 56. 



Epithets. — aepo-nroTrjs, Hes. Sc. H. 316; a^e'ras- (= hx* Tr ) s )i Eur. El. 

 151 ; boXixavx^v, Eur. (?) I. A. 794; fiouXtxo'Seipoy, H. ft. 460, xv. 692; 

 ifiepocpavos, Christod. Ecphr. 384, XiyvOpoos, id. 414, irt Gk. Anth. ; 

 pavTuvoXos, Opp. Cyneg. ii. 547; /ieX&>Sos, Eur. I. T. 1104; nord- 

 fiios, Id. Rh. 618; noXioxpois, Id. Bacch. 1364: cf. Ar. Vesp. 1064; 

 i<jj.vr)Tr)p, Pallad. 40, in Gk. Anth. iii. 123; x i0V °XP t0S i Eur. **el. 2I ^- 

 A frequent emblem of whiteness: cf. Eur. Rh. 618 o-tIX^ovo-i fi' wore 

 TTorauLov kvkvov nrepov. [Note the frequent allusions in Euripides ; 



