optye— nEAAproi. 127 



OY'PI'A. A kind of water-bird. 



Athen. ix. 395 e 17 5e Xeyopevr) ovpla ov troXv XeiVerai vfjTTr}?, tw ^pco/Acm 

 8e pvnapoKepapLos tort, to de pvyx os panpov re Kai areuov e^ft. 



*0$l'OYPOI* opm noios iv Aldionlq, Hesych. 



nA'nnoz. An unknown bird (verb, dud.) ; opviov elBos, Hesych. 



Mentioned Ael. iii. 30, in a somewhat doubtful passage, as a bird in 

 whose nest the Cuckoo lays her egg. Sometimes supposed to be 

 punned on in Ar. Av. 765 cpvo-drm Trdmrovs nap 1 four, where however 

 narnroL are more probably young downy feathers (vide Kock, &c). 

 Coray cites, vaguely, Mod. Gk. nannta, a duck. 



nAPAO'X* dcros, ino MaKeboucov, Hesych. 



riA'PAAAOI, s. TrdpSaXis, Hesych. An undetermined bird. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b opveov $arv> dycXalov a>s (irl to 770X11, Kai ovk 

 ?oti KaTa eva I8elv' to Se %poi>pa o-Troboeiftrjs oXos, peyedos fie TrapanXTjaios 

 ck€lpois [? paXaKOKpavevs, ;(X<uptW, rpuyoov], evnovs de Kai ov KaKonrepos, 

 <pa>vr) 8e ttoXXtj ko\ ov fiapcla' to 8e peyeBos [tov KoXXvpiavos] tovtov. 



A very doubtful passage, cf. Billerbeck, De loc. nonnull. Arist. H. A. 

 difficilior., Hildesh. 1806. Sundevall, following Turner, Gesner, &c, 

 identifies napbaXos with the Golden Plover, Charadrius ftluvialis, L., 

 which is frequent in flocks in Greece, and has a constant cry, and is 

 about as large as rpvyav: in the name he sees a suggestion of the 

 dappled plumage, in spite of o-rrodoeibrjs oXos. Billerbeck, following 

 Aldrovandi, &c, identifies it with the Starling, for similar and equally 

 good reasons. Vide supra, s. v. jxaXaicoicpayeus. 



riEAAPro'I. (Said to be derived from neXo?, dpyos: lit. black-and- 

 white ; vide Suid. s. v. ireXapyibds, ed. Bernhardy; Zonarus, p. 1528 ; 

 Pott. Etym. Forsch. i. p. 131 ; cf. vrjes neXapyoxpvTes, Lycophr. 

 24; opemtXapyos, q. v.). Dim. ireXapyiSeus, Ar. Av. 1356, Plut. ii. 

 992 B. Cf. also yuyTjs. 

 The Stork, Ciconia alba, L. Mod. Gk. X*X«o, Xe'Xems, sometimes 

 said to be a Turkish word ; but Byzantios ingeniously compares 

 XcXckl = neXapyos with Ae'Xeyes = UeXaayol : cf. also XdXayes. 

 Mentioned in Ar. Av. 1 139, with a pun on t6 TleXapyiKov ; cf. ibid. 869. 

 Description. — Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 nepi Tas Xlpvas Kai tovs norapovs 

 fiioTevei. Its clattering noise, Philostr. Ep. ad Epictet. tovs neXap- 

 yovs eVeiStti/ napiovTas rjpds KpoTcoaiv : cf. Ovid, Met. vi. 97 crepitante 

 ciconia rostro. 



Migrations. — Arist. H. A. viii. 16, 600, cpooXel. Cf. Plin. x. 23 (31) Cico- 

 niae quonam e loco veniant aut quo se referant, incompertum adhuc 

 est. Nemo videt agmen discedentium, cum discessurum appareat, nee 



