ISO A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



NYKTIKOPAH {continued). 

 meines Bedenckens weder ein Caprimulgus noch Nycticorax ist.' 

 And the confusion thus introduced seems to have been aided by Gaza 

 having translated wKtiKopa^ by cicuma (Gr. Kiicufns, q- v 0> afterwards 

 misspelt cicunia, ciconia (vide Belon, ii. c. 36, Camus, ii. p. 250). 



Nevertheless, although the above-cited passages all appear to apply 

 to an Owl, yet Ardea purpurea, nycticorax, and other Herons are said 

 to be now called vvKTi<6pag (Erh., Heldr.) ; further, it has been shown 

 above that the attributes of epadios are in part nocturnal. Lastly, it 

 must be noted that there are evidences of Egyptian influence in the 

 stories both of epcodios and wuriKopai; ; vide s. v. dkoirala. 



Of NA'NGH. An unknown bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 633 (loc. dub.) dabavi&rai de kol r}v KaXovai rives 

 olvdvdrjv dvio~xovros rod aeipiov, dvopevov be (paiverai' (pevyei yap ore pev 

 ra y}rvxn, ore 8e rrjv aXeaj/. Cf. Plin. x. (29) 45 ; perhaps identical with 

 parra, ib. xviii. 69, or vitiparra, ib. x. (33) 50. Vide infra, s. v. oivds. 



Belon (Nat. des Oiseaux, vii. 12) first applied the name to the 

 Wheatear, which {Saxicola oenanthe, L.) still retains it. 

 Of NA'Z. A kind of Pigeon : probably the wild Kock-Pigeon, 

 Columba livia, L. Also ol^ias, Poll. vi. 22 olvlas 8e km olvds, 



f) dypia Trepio~repd. 



Arist. H. A. V. 13, 544 b opvis ivepicrrepoeihi]s, /xiKpcp pdfav rrjs nepio-Tepds. 

 Ib. viii. 3, 593 eXdrroav be (pafios. Ib. vi. I, 558b Strom, i.e. lays two 

 eggs ; cf. De Gen. iv. 77, iii. 9, Plin. x. 79 (58). Arist. H. A. viii. 3. 593 rod 

 (pBivoncopov kou (paiverai pakiara Ka\ akiaKerai' 17 6"' akaxxis avrr)S yiverai 

 pakiara KaTirovarjs ro v8a>p' dcpucvovvrai 8 els rovs ronovs rovrovs expvcrai 

 veorrovs. 



Arist. ap. Athen. ix. 394 a peifav eWl rrjS -jrepiarepas, XP&f 10 - ^e e^« 

 olvconov. (paiverai (pdivoncopa povco. Athen. ib. 394 e \eyerai ft' on 

 37 olvas eav (payovaa to rrjs l£las aneppa eni tivos dqbodevarj 8ev8pov, I8iav 

 Igiav (pvecrdai : cf. Plin. xvi. (44) 93, s. v. -palumbes. Ael. iv. 58 rfjv olvd8a 

 opveov elbevai xpr) ovaav, ov pfjv &s rives apureXov. Aey« he ' Apiarore\r]s 

 pel£ov pev avro eivai <pdrrr)s, nepio-repas ye pfjv rjrrov. Mentioned also, 

 Lyc. 358. 



otkaSoStipas, in Sparta, a dove-catcher, Ael. 1. c. 



The passage in Aelian, and the discrepancy between the accounts of 

 the bird's size, indicate that olvds was a little-known word. The later 

 Greeks and early commentators derived it from olvos, with reference to 

 the colour of the bird (Athen. 1. c, Eustath. ad Odyss. p. 475, ed. Basil.) 

 or to its appearance in the vintage-season (rov (pOivonapov) ; hence 

 Gaza translates it Vinago ; and most moderns have identified it with 

 the Stock-dove, C. oenas, L., whose breast is purple-red. But the 

 word is more probably identical with the Hebrew IW , Jonah, as has 

 been suggested by Casaubon in Athen. p. 617, and Bochart, Hieroz. ii. 



