Il8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



NE'PTOX. A Vulture. 



Ar. Av. 303, mentioned together with yvty and tipa%. Hesych. vepros' 

 Upa£ ol 8e €i8os opveov (i.e. a species of vulture). This word, hitherto 



unexplained, I conjecture to be the Egyptian "ST itf nert i Copt. 



ItOV pi, a Vulture : cf. Chaeremon, fr. 9, and Lauth, in Horap. i. 3, 

 Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad., 1876, p. 73. 



NH'TTA, Boeot. va<T<ra (Ar. Ach. 875). A Duck. Cf. Lat. anat-is, 



Lith. an/is, A. S. ened, Ger. Ente. Dim. nrj-rrdpioi' (a term of 



endearment), Ar. PI. ion, Menand. Inc. 422 (4, 316); vryr-nov, 



Nicostr. Antyll. 3 (3, 280). See also poo-icds, yXauKioi', -Kt\vi\^. 



Description. — Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b included among ra papvrepa 

 tS)U crreyavonohaiv' neplirorapovs Kai Xipvas forty ; ibid. ii. 1J, 5°9 o~r6paxov 

 e^ei evpiv Ka\ nXarvv oXov, anocpvadas ?X ft * 



Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ix. 52. 395 c 6 appqv ptifav Ka\ 7roiKiXa>Tepo?. 



An allusion to the particoloured plumage of the Common Drake, 

 or else of some wild Duck, in Ar. Av. 11 48. 



Ael. V. 33 e£ o)8iva>v eVrt vquriKT}, Kai pmdelv ov 8urai, k. t. X. 



Use as Food. — Herod, ii. 77 Alyvnrioi rag vqcraas d>povs aireovrai, 

 nporapixevcravTes. Frequent in the Comic Poets. Its wholesomeness, 

 Plut. V. Cat. Maj. xxiii (i. 359 d). On the Roman vqo-o-oTpofala, see 

 Varro, De R. R. iii. II, Colum. viii. 15. Mode of capture, Dion. De 

 Avib. iii. 23. 



Brought as tribute to Indian kings, Ael. xiii. 25. 



Myth and Legend.— Sacred to Poseidon, Ar. Av. 566. According to 

 Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, daughters of Pierus, 

 was metamorphosed into the bird vqaaa. 



Its defence against the eagle, cf. Phile, De An. Pr. xiv. 



Use the herb sideritis as a remedy, Plin. viii. 27. 



A Weather-prophet. — Ael. vii. 7 irrepvyi^ovaai nvevp.a SrjXovaiv lo~xvpov : 

 cf. Arist. fr. 241, 1522 b; Theophr. De Sign. fr. vi. 18, 28; Arat. 

 918, 970. 



NHTTOKTO'NOI, s. nqrro<|>6Vos. A kind of Eagle, the Anataria of 

 Plin. x. 3. Supposed, by Sundevall, to be the Spotted Eagle, 

 Aquila naevia ; vide s. v. dXideTos. Compare, however, the notes 

 on Xay<»>4>oVos, irXdyyos, &c. 



KipKos ptjttoktovos, Phile, De An. Pr. xiv. 6. vqrrocpovos, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 32, 618 b = \i6p^vos and irXdyyos, q. v. Cf. Ael. v. 33. 



NOYMH'NIOI. An unknown bird, opveov ofioiov drraya- o Ka\ rpoxtXos, 

 Hesych. 

 Proverb.— £wrp\6ov array as re Ka\ vovpqvios, Suid., &C. (for Other 



