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KYKNOI {continued). 

 it stood in mid-heaven at the rising of the Pleiad ; at its own rising, 

 the Virgin (Leda) was in mid-heaven, and the twins Castor and Pollux 

 were just setting in the west. The stories of Cycnus, son of Mars 

 (Hesiod, Anton. Lib. 12, Philochor. ap. Athen., Ovid, Met., &c), of 

 Cycnus, King of Liguria (Hygin. Fab. 144), Cycnus, brother of Phaethon 

 (Lucian, De Electro, Virg. Aen. x. 189), and others, which are also 

 similarly connected with astronomical myths, lie outside the scope of 

 this book. Cf. (int. al.), Dupuis, Orig. de tous les cultes, iii. p. 813, vii. 

 P. 367' 



KY'MBH. A very doubtful bird. nTepofidpopes Kvpfiai, Emped. 188. 

 Supposed by L. and S. to be a Tumbler-pigeon ; but cf. KOfi^a, 

 supra. Hesych. has Kvpfiac oppiOes : also KvpffiarXtuTai' opviBevrai. 



KY'MINAII = x c ^»as= (?) irnfyS, q. v. Kvfavdis in some MSS., both of 

 Horn, and Arist., cf. J. G. Schneider in Arist., vol. iv. p. 92. 

 Hesych. has kv^puis' yXavg[ais~\, query Kvprjpdis: also Kvddvav 

 tt)v ykavica, query Kv^rjva. See also s. v. kikku^. An unknown 

 or fabulous bird ; perhaps an Owl. 



II. xiv. 290 oppiBi Xiyvpfj e'vaXiyKios, fjp t ev opeaaiv | ^aXfc/Sa kikXtjo-kovcti 

 6*oi, apdpes de Kvpipdiv. 



Ar. Av. I l8l xeopei de nds tis opvx<xs rjyKvXaptvos, \ Kepxvrjs, rpiopxrjs, yvty, 

 Kvpivdis, aleros. Mentioned likewise among the rapacious birds, Ael. 

 xii. 4. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 12, 615 b oXiyaKis p,ev (palverai, oIkcI yap opt], eari be 

 p.eXas, Koi peyedos oarov iepaf- 6 qbaaaoCpopos KaXovpevos, koX rrjv Ide'av paKpbs 

 icai Xctttos. Kvpivhiv de KaXoiaiv "laves qvttjv : the passage is very cor- 

 rupt, and according to some texts (followed apparently by Pliny, x. 8, 

 and by Eustath. in Horn.), the next clause concerning vfipis or nrvyg 

 applies to the same bird, rj §' vfipis, (petal de rives eipai tov avTov tovtov 

 opviOa tw TTTvyyi, ovtos r]p.epas pev ov (palverai dia to p.r] fiXeneiv o£u, ras de 

 vvKras drjpevei cocrnep oi deroi [ol a>roi, cj. Sundevall], /ecu pd^ovrai de npbs 

 rbv derbv ovroi cr(P6dpa coot' apepco Xap(3dveo~0ai noXXaKis £<ovras vtto twv 

 vopeeov. rUrei pev ovv dvo coa, veorrevei de Kal ovtos ev TieTpais koi anijXaiois. 



Conjectured by Sundevall to be the Black or Glossy Ibis, from the 

 suggestion of metallic colouring in ^aX/ar, and from Mod. Gk. x a ^ K d<oTa, 

 Erh. ; but this is certainly not a bird of the mountains, and the 

 supposed derivation from xaX*o's is imaginary. By Aub. and Wimmer, 

 and others, ascribed to the Capercailzie, Tetrao urogallus, L. 

 Usually taken to be a large Owl (cf. Suidas, ^aX/a's, cldos oppeov, rj 

 yXavg, cf. Schol. Ar. Av. 262), as by Belon, Gaza, and other older 

 naturalists. Cuvier (Grand saigne's Pliny, I. v. n, pp. 374, 375) identi- 

 fies it with the Hawk Owl, Strix uralensis, Pall., and Netolicka agrees. 



